Leadership Strategies to Improve Team Performance with Liz Myers, Executive Leadership Coach

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Leadership skills are something that <strong>CAN</strong> be learned, but most Design Professionals do not get proper training on how to be an effective leader. </span></p> <p>Liz Myers, Executive Leadership Coach at Integrative Leadership Strategies, works specifically with Design Firms to improve leadership within their company. She is uniquely qualified as she is an engineer herself, earning a Bachelors in Engineering from Cornell and a Masters in Structural Engineering from Stanford.</p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Upon beginning her engineering career, she was disheartened to discover the lack of teamwork and leadership within design firms. Senior designers failed to mentor the younger ones, team members were afraid to speak their mind at meetings, and no one seemed to trust management. Experiencing this negative work environment inspired her to make a career switch from engineer to leadership coach. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I love how Liz breaks learning leadership into simple frameworks for her clients! For example...</span></p> <p><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>3 components of trust within a team:</strong></span></p> <ol> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;"><em>Benevolence</em> - having someone’s best interest</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;"><em>Competence</em> - having skills to get the job done </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;"><em>Reliability and Consistency</em> - proving to the team that they can count on you</span></li> </ol> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">She also addresses a pressing question for many firm owners...</span></p> <p><em><strong><span style="color: #000000;">"How can I best lead the Millennial Generation?"</span></strong></em></p> <p> </p> <p><img style= "font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, C