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5 Tips for Better Leadership with Emotional Intelligence

If you want to increase your emotional intelligence, try these 5 tips for improving team performance. What most people want to know is how does emotional intelligence make people more successful, and more to the point, how can you raise the EQ of yourself or your team. There are a lot of things you can do to improve how you motivate and manage your team. My new blog on LinkedIn explores 5 simple techniques for becoming more effective as a…

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Five Tips for High-Stakes Deals Demonstrated by Evan Gershkovitz’s Fierce Mother

The historic prisoner swap offers a case study in what it takes to succeed at making complex, high-stakes deals. For most businesses, high-stakes deals involve not lives but livelihoods, affecting dozens or even hundreds of individuals. Negotiations are often fierce. Looking at the prisoner swap completed on Aug. 1, 2024 in hindsight, there are a few key principles that underlie complex deals of all kinds and what it takes to break through when you are dealing with tough people on…

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Delegate Responsibility, Not Tasks

My new blog in Forbes offers two great tips to help you delegate responsibility for better results. When people don’t know how to delegate effectively, a lot of problems can happen. Often, managers who aren’t sure how to do it just take on the work themselves. That can lead to burn out. Others try to micro-manage and show direct reports exactly the steps to get things done. This can leave direct reports feeling powerless and frustrated. When things don’t go…

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Dialing Emotional Independence in Just Right

Emotional independence works best when you’re not too high or too low in independence, but find a mid-point that’s just right. To maintain good relationships–important for happiness at work and in life–it’s best not to be too aggressive or too weak. The best relationships are built on being able to keep communication lines open respectfully and non-judgmentally, especially during difficult situations. Your ability to manage your independence is closely related to how well you establish relationships with others. Too little…

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Announcing My Book: Bag Lady

Recounting my experience as a purpose-driven entrepreneur, my story provides a blueprint for using entrepreneurship to make the world better. I’m very excited to announce that my book, Bag Lady: How I Started a Business for a Greener World and Changed the Way America Shops, will be released on Earth Day, April 22, 2022. Those of you who have known me for a while, may remember me in my previous career as a leading supplier of reusable bags in the…

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Lisa D. Foster, Ph.D. ACC  is an independent coach. As an Associate Certified Coach by the International Coaching Federation, Lisa honors and abides by the ICF Code of Ethics.  All coaching sessions and consultations are confidential.

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