Communications

Even difficult conversations are easier and more productive when you use story telling and images.

Kami hones her listening skills as she continues her customer journey

How Listening Skills Create New Opportunities | Customer Journey: Kami, Part 4 of 7

Listening improves understanding and helps to get buy in. Customer Journey Series: Kami This article is part of a customer journey series following “Kami,” a sales leader in pharma managing competitive changes and new leadership. Her journey explores building leadership confidence, managing up, navigating organizational change, and positioning herself for the next level. Each post explores a real coaching conversation or leadership challenge from that journey. This is the fourth post in the series. Within a few weeks, Kami reported…

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Oliver learns to leverage trust to promote cross-functional collaboration

How to Break Through When Collaboration Gets Tough | Customer Journey: Oliver, Part 4 of 5

The legal team was very risk averse and getting in the way of progress. Oliver uses trust to promote cross-functional collaboration. Customer Journey Series: Oliver This article is part of a customer journey series following “Oliver,” a CTO in a pharma company scaling up to begin commercialization for a new drug. Oliver was facing a growing team, fast growing IT expansion, and collaboration across a rapidly expanding organization. Each post explores a real coaching conversation or leadership challenge from that…

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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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