communications Archives : Lisa D. Foster, Leadership Coaching & Training

Find tips on how you can become a better communicator. My blog explains how to use communications techniques like images to make your point.

Announcing My Free Webinar: Supercharge Your Employee One-on-Ones

April 7, 2025

blog, Emotional Intelligence, HR and Employee Development, Leadership

This free webinar offers 12 tips to make 1-on-1s the most productive time in your week. One of the things my clients thank me for most are my tips for productive 1-on-1s. Now you can have these tips for free! Please join me for a free webinar entitled: Supercharge Your One-on-Ones: 12 Tips to make 1:1s the most productive time in your week. When managers first come to me for coaching, many of them think these weekly meetings are a…

The Ten Most Popular Posts for Emotional Intelligence

December 30, 2022

blog, Emotional Intelligence, HR and Employee Development

If you are looking for inspirational reading to increase your leadership effectiveness in 2023, check out these ten popular posts. I trust my readers to tell me what they like. These popular posts are a great summary of the ideas behind my work as a coach and corporate trainer. Besides the top five posts on my blog, I’m also sharing the most popular posts that I shared on my social media as a research round-up about why emotional intelligence matters.…

Coaching Creates Authentic Branding

December 13, 2018

Leadership

Check out my chapter in this new book to find out why a perfect method for achieving authentic branding. No one knows your business better than you do. Your unique authentic branding is your unique value proposition. That’s why you are the most authentic voice for your brand. Using the tools of coaching can help you bring your voice and your ideas forward to create a brand that is truly authentic. Your brand can be the most valuable asset your business…

Three Negotiating Mistakes—and How to Correct Them

August 27, 2018

Leadership

Everybody negotiates. Avoid these three negotiating mistakes. We negotiate the big stuff, like salaries and contracts, and we negotiate the little stuff, curfews and who will do the dishes. From my years as an entrepreneur and my coach training, I’ve honed my negotiating skills. I’m not supposed to make negotiating mistakes, but it happened to me recently. In the end, even though I got what I wanted, the whole process left me feeling that I was in the wrong. My…

There’s No Such Thing as Negative Feedback

July 30, 2018

Leadership

There’s Positive Feedback, Coaching and Counseling When people genuinely want to do well, and nearly all employees do, a coaching approach to feedback works best. Recently my client Christina* was taking her new hire, Julie, along for a meeting with a vendor. Christina, Julie, and the vendor were on site, looking at an event space. The vendor was recommending more tables. “I think we need to do it,” said Christina, “but I’ll have to get my boss to approve it.”…