The Leadership Insights Blog by Liz Weber, CMC, CSP

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Category: Leadership Development

Increase Your Power; Give It Away

I originally wrote this article in 2003, but it's theme is exactly what I discussed with a leadership group last week as we discussed my book, Something Needs to Change Around Here: The Five Stages to Leveraging Your Leadership and in particular Stage 2 Leadership.

How Engaged Are You?

I recently read an interview with Jim Loehr, the co-author of ‘The Power of Full Engagement’. Mr. Loehr’s expertise is in personal “energy management”.

Find Your Key to Professional Happiness

While working with a client recently, the conversation turned to the business partner who was absent. That partner had recently been described by one of the employees as “an unhappy person.”

Employee Support Investments – A Smart Move

When was the last time you gave a co-worker a compliment? When was the last time you even acknowledged a routine task they do? Now ask yourself, when did I last receive a compliment?

Employee Motivation Check-up

If you were asked to describe your employees, would "motivated" be one of the adjectives you'd use? If not, why not?

Develop from Within / Lead the Business at Hand

There's a great statement Bill George, the former CEO of Medtronic made about CEO's and successors. He said:

Creating Procedures – Keep It Simple

I was recently asked to provide some insights into how an organization can easily, yet effectively, create documented procedures (i.e., systems). If you've followed any of my writings over the years, you know I'm a huge proponent of checklists, procedures, and simple documentation to ease a leader's and the team's working lives.

Dealing with Difficult People

We've all come across difficult people in our workplace and typically, we've found that the “safest” way to deal with them is to ignore them. However, by ignoring the difficult behaviors of our team members, we are by default condoning their poor behaviors.

It Doesn’t Take Much to Say Thanks

I again heard a group of managers raise a common problem during a training program this past week, "How are we supposed to keep our employees motivated? We don't have any money for bonuses, raises, or gifts, and we can't afford to buy them stuff out of our own pockets.

Are Your Employees Held Hostage or Held Accountable?

A client called me recently to say he'd just finished reading a paragraph from Jack Welch’s book “Jack – Straight from the Gut” to his staff. The section he’d read outlined Mr. Welch’s thoughts on the importance of “Informality” as a key leadership skill.