Leadership Development - Lisa D. Foster, Leadership Coaching & Training

6 Steps to Better Outcomes for Talking to Employees

January 23, 2018

An astounding number of managers and business leaders, 67% of them, report being uncomfortable communicating with their employees. That discomfort is about half attributable to the difficulty of delivering tough messages to employees, from feedback to company initiatives. It also includes a fair share of people who find it difficult to communicate even good news to employees. It’s difficult for many bosses to even deliver positive feedback like crediting others with good ideas (16%) or praising employees for their achievements…

I Have a Dream: 3 Ways to be More Memorable

January 16, 2018

Team Alignment & 1:1s

“I have a dream.” It’s rightly famous, perhaps one of the most memorable lines ever spoken. So, why do we remember some phrases and not others? More importantly: How do we say something in a way that other people, like our teams, remember our message? Martin Luther King knew exactly how to write so that people will remember the key message. Repetition, he knew, was important. And a lot of it. He’d used it in his Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech,…

How Amazon.com Got Its Name

January 10, 2018

Team Alignment & 1:1s

Actually, I have no idea how Amazon.com got its name. Imagining how it got its name illustrates the power of an image–painting a picture in words.