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Six Leadership Styles: Differences & Advantages

Know which leadership styles contribute to high performance and which negatively affect productivity Good leaders have a variety of different strategies and leadership styles that inspire others to achieve even ambitious goals. The more emotional intelligence they have, the better they know how to motivate the right people in the right way at the right time. It’s helpful to think of leadership like a toolkit. If you’re a builder and you only know how to use a hammer, you’re going…

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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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How Does Developing Emotional Intelligence Drive High Performance and Productivity?

Improving emotional intelligence is the key to getting work done through other people The job of every manager is to get work done through other people. How you manage your team members creates the difference between average results and high performance. Unmotivated people do their job because they have to. Motivated people go above and beyond because they want to.  When that happens, even ambitious goals become reachable. If you create the conditions to inspire your team to direct all…

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How Leaders Trained in Emotional Intelligence Create High Performing Teams

EQ training is a tactical advantage for improving performance up and down the company structure. Leaders Trained in Emotional Intelligence Are the Basis for High Performing Teams What benefits your company more: focusing on numbers or focusing on people? Successful companies are finding that financial performance comes from a people centered approach, in other words, based on emotional intelligence. If that sounds expensive, just think: what is the cost of not focusing on your people? Increasingly, companies that make the…

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A Leadership Style that is Uniquely Yours

Good leadership is about finding your signature leadership style, a way of doing things that will have a lasting impact based on your unique signature leadership values. When your leadership is rooted in enduring human values, you begin to create a leadership style that will create a legacy.

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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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