Liz's Leadership Insights Blog
Starting a Strategic Initiative? Clarify Your Culture First
Now that you’ve finally hired the additional project team members needed, and you’ve checked, checked, and triple checked your strategic initiative’s plan and deliverables, it’s time to start your project, right? Wrong.
Taking Over As Leader? Ask a Few Questions
- Are you taking over for a leader who has left the organization?
- Are you inheriting someone else’s team?
- Or, are you stepping into a newly created leadership role?
Succession – Plan to Return
Refining processes and developing the next generation of leaders are fundamental to succession planning. I’ve worked with my clients on these key succession planning and talent development steps for years. However, during a coaching call with an executive this past week, I learned a valuable insight into HOW I need to guide my succession planning clients going forward. The leaders need to plan for succession as if THEY were going to return to the company.
Culture Starts at the Top
This past week validated that regardless of what you say you want your company culture to be, what it actually IS is dependent upon you, the leader.
Create a Better Work Environment – Redeploy Your Talent
I try to notice trends in what my clients are facing. Last week presented a trend I couldn’t help but notice: Three of my clients were tired, frustrated, and struggling to please customers’ shifting and very challenging demands. My clients weren’t happy. Their team members weren’t happy. Their customers weren’t happy. No matter what my clients tried to do to please their challenging customers, it wasn’t enough. My clients’ team members were burning out. Team members were starting to quit – and leave without notice! My clients were getting desperate.
