Hire AND Fire for Character
The old saying is that you hire for competence and fire for character. But what if that’s misguided?
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Lisa's blog features posts to help leaders improve in 3 ways: leading themselves, leading others, and leading organizations.
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Lisa Martin
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Get Past The Fear Of Speaking Up
Let’s start here: Are you overjoyed when you don’t need to say anything in a meeting?
Lisa Martin
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5 Ways to Stand Out As A Leader
Each situation at work is different inherently, but … why is it that some leaders seem to have influence and persuade others?
Lisa Martin
2 min read
Are You A High-Impact, Thriving Leader?
With all the books, speeches, webinars, training, and more, leadership is a $44B industry globally.
Lisa Martin
2 min read
Making The Tough Calls
The hard thing about creating a collaborative culture is that one bad seed will ruin the crop.
Lisa Martin
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Are You Annoyed? Congrats, You Just Discovered Your Superpower
There’s a really amusing trick I’ve discovered.
Lisa Martin
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What’s Your Theme?
Ever since I began executive coaching I’ve asked my clients to choose a theme for the coming year. I’m going to ask you to do the same.
Lisa Martin
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Find Out If You’re A Person of Character
Character is one of those all-time fluffier business words: we all know it’s important, and we all have an idea what it looks like.
Lisa Martin
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You Don’t Schedule Respect In Outlook
The status of respect in the workplace in most published surveys isn’t too rosy a picture.
Lisa Martin
3 min read
Why Habits Are The Building Blocks Of Powerful Leadership
Consider this: an average human being has 60,000 thoughts in a day.
Lisa Martin
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The Biggest Communication Mistake Leaders Make
When I coach leaders, one of the common questions they ask me is “How can I move my career forward and get more influence?"
Lisa Martin
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Not Everybody Likes Tom Cruise, But … He’s Got Presence.
Not everybody likes Tom Cruise.
Lisa Martin
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Why Conversation Is The Key To Keeping Your Best People
At the heart of any thriving relationship is the ability to communicate with one another.
Lisa Martin
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8 Principles To Make You A Better Leader
I’ve learned a lot from the leaders I coach. I’ve summarized my key learnings into 8 principles.
Lisa Martin
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Why And How To Ask Powerful Questions
If I told you there was a way to be a better leader AND be someone who works less but gets more done, you’d want to know more, right?
Lisa Martin
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The X-Factor: Do You Have It?
Leadership #presence matters. It's called many different things: magnetism, charisma, commanding the room, etc.
Lisa Martin
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Lisa’s Top 5 Leadership Authors (and why you want to read them)
On the paperback side of the book publishing industry, more than four titles per day are released with ‘leadership’ in them.
Lisa Martin
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Why Most Of Us Have No Idea How to Lead Effectively
Here’s a (not-so) fun fact about conventional management that you might not be aware of.
Lisa Martin
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7 Ways to Assess and Develop Your Self-Worth
Developing self-worth is hard for many of us.
Lisa Martin
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How To Teach (Not Preach) As A Leader
The best leaders invest in their people. They don't gab at their team as preachers – they guide them as teachers.
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