Communications and story telling

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

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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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Lisa D. Foster, Ph.D, ACC

The Ten Most Popular Posts for Emotional Intelligence

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.…

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Three Tips for How Leaders Can Use Expectations to Develop High Performing Teams.

Most people will meet your expectations. Give your team something to aim for. Our desire to fit in and meet expectations is a powerful innate motivator that is universal. It’s a powerful tool that leaders in every office can use to improve performance of whole teams. If you give people the conditions and expectations to grow, you will find that in nearly every case, they meet or exceed expectations. Imagine for a moment, a gardener taking two seeds from 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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