by Larae Quy | May 14, 2024 | personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness
For almost twenty-five years, I studied the habits and mindsets of foreign spies assigned to the U.S. to steal American classified and proprietary information. I needed to find ways to get these people to talk to me and understand how they thought about themselves,...
by Larae Quy | Sep 29, 2022 | Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, Uncategorized
As the spokesperson for the FBI in Northern California, I found myself in several situations where the FBI was criticized, and I was expected to justify its actions. As with most sophisticated investigations, there are many steps when building a case and evidence is...
by Larae Quy | Jul 15, 2019 | Anxiety, Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness
Successful FBI agents understand that it’s vital to create power poses that will produce results, and they’ll do it within the first few seconds of meeting someone. Often, people focus on how to memorize important points and rehearse their presentation so they’ll come...
by Larae Quy | May 21, 2018 | Mental toughness, personal achievement, personal leadership, Positive Mindset, Psychology, self-awareness
FBI agents spend a great deal of time learning how to build trust with others. For that reason an agent’s most useful investigative tool is the interview. This is where trust is built—nose to nose, knee to knee. We need information from the people we talk to, and they...
by Larae Quy | Jan 8, 2018 | personal achievement, personal leadership, Psychology, self-awareness
Empathy is one of the most popular topics brought up for discussion by my executive coaching clients. It’s not surprising because empathy is one the most important instrument in a leader’s toolbox. Effective leaders make it a priority to take care of their people. In...
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