Leadership Blog

Lisa's blog features posts to help leaders improve in 3 ways: leading themselves, leading others, and leading organizations.

Lisa Martin

4 min

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

2 min

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

4 min

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

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

Making The Tough Calls

The hard thing about creating a collaborative culture is that one bad seed will ruin the crop.

Are You Annoyed? Congrats, You Just Discovered Your Superpower

Lisa Martin

2 min

Are You Annoyed? Congrats, You Just Discovered Your Superpower

There’s a really amusing trick I’ve discovered.

Lisa Martin

2 min

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.

Find Out If You’re A Person of Character

Lisa Martin

3 min

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

You Don’t Schedule Respect In Outlook

The status of respect in the workplace in most published surveys isn’t too rosy a picture.

Why Habits Are The Building Blocks Of Powerful Leadership

Lisa Martin

3 min

Why Habits Are The Building Blocks Of Powerful Leadership

Consider this: an average human being has 60,000 thoughts in a day.

The Biggest Communication Mistake Leaders Make

Lisa Martin

3 min

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?"

Not Everybody Likes Tom Cruise, But … He’s Got Presence.

Lisa Martin

1 min

Not Everybody Likes Tom Cruise, But … He’s Got Presence.

Not everybody likes Tom Cruise.

Why Conversation Is The Key To Keeping Your Best People

Lisa Martin

2 min

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.

8 Principles To Make You A Better Leader

Lisa Martin

2 min

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

3 min

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

2 min

The X-Factor: Do You Have It?

Leadership #presence matters. It's called many different things: magnetism, charisma, commanding the room, etc.

Lisa’s Top 5 Leadership Authors (and why you want to read them)

Lisa Martin

2 min

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.

Why Most Of Us Have No Idea How to Lead Effectively

Lisa Martin

3 min

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.

7 Ways to Assess and Develop Your Self-Worth

Lisa Martin

2 min

7 Ways to Assess and Develop Your Self-Worth

Developing self-worth is hard for many of us.

Lisa Martin

2 min

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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