She writes on Leadership pitfalls to avoidHer passion for coaching high achieving individuals has its roots in her ten-year professional career as an equity trader for Salomon Brothers, New York and Montgomery Securities and Banc America Securities in San Francisco. She brings to her consulting practice more than fifteen years of management, marketing, sales, and training experience on Wall Street as well as in the field of sports marketing. Lora also taught several semesters of Business Communications at the Haas Graduate School of Business at U.C. Berkeley.
Leadership happens in the relationship whether it is between two people, a team, a whole organization, a church, or a community. And that relationship is characterized by many of the attributes present in all relationships such as assumptions, expectations, values, emotions, successes, failures, dreams and disappointments.She writes on Leadership Skill: The Fierce Conversation
But honest, direct communication is what's needed in our organizations and in our relationships. In fact, an unwillingness to have fierce conversations will undermine a team and, potentially destroy relationships. As leaders, we need to be willing to say what we see, what we sense. We need to be able to name the real issues and be in conversation around what is real.
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