Self-Awareness - Lisa D. Foster, Leadership Coaching & Training

Emotional self-awareness is the most important skill for leadership effectiveness.

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

October 25, 2023

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…

Six Emotional Intelligence Skills for Sales Success

August 7, 2023

Confidence and Managing Yourself, Empathy and Managing Others

Emotional intelligence skills for sales consists of six specific skills that enable high performance throughout the sales cycle. Salespeople are in the business of making people happy. From small sales to big ones, the sales process is a trade of money for something that solves a problem or makes our lives better, easier, more effective, efficient, or just more beautiful. That’s why emotional intelligence is essential for increasing sales. In order to get to that magical moment where the seller…

Reduce Anxiety for Better Health

July 12, 2023

Confidence and Managing Yourself

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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Which Emotional Intelligence Skills Drive High Performance?

July 10, 2023

Confidence and Managing Yourself, Decision Making Under Pressure, Empathy and Managing Others, Trust and Building Teams

A guide to the 5 emotional intelligence skills that consistently show up in effective leaders.

The Cycle of Trust and Mistrust: How the Expectations Effect Raises (or Lowers) Team Performance

February 24, 2023

Trust and Building Teams

If you want to build a high performing company, start by building a high trust culture through emotional intelligence.

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Why Decision Making is an Emotional Intelligence Skill

September 28, 2022

Decision Making Under Pressure

Emotions can help us improve decision making. Unfortunately, emotions can also get in the way. The key is to make decisions based on emotional intelligence, not raw emotions.