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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
4 min read
Using the Coach Approach: Learning to Lead Effectively
What makes a strong leader? Using the coach approach ensures you are connecting, empowering and motivating your team.
Lisa Martin
3 min read
Leadership Coaching: Elevating Yourself and Your Team.
Want to be a great leader? Leadership coaching elevates your performance and your team’s. Here are three steps to take.
Lisa Martin
4 min read
Self-awareness Leads To Better Leadership. Here’s Why.
You can’t lead yourself if you don't possess self-awareness. And you can’t lead others if you don’t know yourself.
Lisa Martin
5 min read
Navigating Self-doubt Is Easy With These 10 Helpful Tips
Important confession up front here: I suffer from self-doubt.
Lisa Martin
3 min read
How to Communicate Like a Leader
Right message.
Right way.
Right time.
Lisa Martin
2 min read
Why Leader-Led Learning Is More Fab Than Fad
Are you training employees or teaching them to learn?
Lisa Martin
5 min read
3 Ways To Become A Trusted Leader
Workplaces with engaged, productive, and innovative employees are founded on trust.
Lisa Martin
2 min read
Embrace Fear
Here’s an interesting note on human nature.
Lisa Martin
4 min read
Hire AND Fire for Character
The old saying is that you hire for competence and fire for character. But what if that’s misguided?
Lisa Martin
4 min read
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
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
3 min read
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
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
1 min read
Not Everybody Likes Tom Cruise, But … He’s Got Presence.
Not everybody likes Tom Cruise.
Lisa Martin
2 min read
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
2 min read
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
3 min read
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
2 min read
7 Ways to Assess and Develop Your Self-Worth
Developing self-worth is hard for many of us.
Lisa Martin
2 min read
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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