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Respect is necessary to enable trust and high performance.

Delegate responsibility

Delegate Responsibility, Not Tasks

My new blog in Forbes offers two great tips to help you delegate responsibility for better results. When people don’t know how to delegate effectively, a lot of problems can happen. Often, managers who aren’t sure how to do it just take on the work themselves. That can lead to burn out. Others try to micro-manage and show direct reports exactly the steps to get things done. This can leave direct reports feeling powerless and frustrated. When things don’t go…

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Build Better Relationships with Emotional Intelligence

Building better relationships is a skill we all need for success at work and in life. Some people are simply better at building better relationships than others. If your team lacks cohesion and members tend to remain siloed or in conflict, good news! We can all learn to become better at building mutually satisfying and fulfilling relationships. Naturally, due to childhood experiences and inclination, different people have different styles of relating to others. Psychologists call this your attachment style. Some…

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bullied woman

Stand Up to Bullies: Keep Your Confidence, and Your Job

My article in Forbes offers six tips for standing up to bullies in the workplace. Are you silenced or confused at work? Is your best work often demeaned or dismissed? Does your boss make unreasonable or demeaning demands? If so, you may be the target of a bullying attack. It’s important to stand up to bullies to reclaim your confidence and recover a sense of power and control over your own job. Unfortunately, bullying is alive and well in the…

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Optimist

Raise Your Optimism for Better Outcomes in Sales, Work, and Life

Use optimism for better outcomes in sales, at work, and in life. It also helps you feel happier and less stressed at work. Most of us know someone who is constantly having problems, often sick or injured, frequently or almost always complaining about something. Most of us also know someone for whom things almost always go well. At work and in life, things just seem to go their way. Does optimism–or pessimism–result from events or could our outlook on life…

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Reduce Anxiety for Better Health

Sometimes anxiety may feel rational, but actually it’s not helping. Try these three tips to reduce anxiety and start bouncing back. Let’s face it. The global pandemic has left everyone with historic levels of leftover stress. Work–whether you have it or you don’t–is one source of stress. We all have fears. Letting your fears get the better of you is counterproductive. Stress can triggers hormones that can actually reduce your body’s immune responses and increase your risk for other health…

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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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