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Learning from Hardship: A Bad Boss — Marcus, Post 4 of 6

Surviving a boss who yells, micromanages, and emails you at midnight — and wondering what you can possibly learn from it? The next year, Marcus faced his biggest challenge of all — a bad boss. Customer Journey: Marcus Marcus was a tech executive who came to coaching during a career transition. Over the years that followed, he navigated new roles, organizational change, difficult bosses, and periods of uncertainty. Marcus’s journey explores self-leadership, resilience, confidence, and learning to take ownership of…

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Strategies to Get People Aligned and Moving Forward | Customer Journey: Oliver, Part 3 of 5

Break down the silos and show everyone that the problems are everyone’s problems. We need team alignment to work together to solve them. 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…

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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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