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

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

Reduce Anxiety for Better Health

July 12, 2023

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.

Five Ways Emotional Self-Expression Helps Motivate Your Team

July 21, 2022

Confidence and Managing Yourself, Trust and Building Teams

The key to emotional self-expression is the Goldilocks rule: not too much, not too little, just right.

Three Tips for How Leaders Can Use Expectations to Develop High Performing Teams.

June 9, 2022

Alignment and Effective 1:1s

Most people will meet your expectations. Give your team something to aim for. Our desire to fit in and meet expectations is a powerful innate motivator that is universal. It’s a powerful tool that leaders in every office can use to improve performance of whole teams. If you give people the conditions and expectations to grow, you will find that in nearly every case, they meet or exceed expectations. Imagine for a moment, a gardener taking two seeds from the…