The Leadership Insights Blog by Liz Weber, CMC, CSP

Effective Leadership Strategies to Boost Your Business

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Category: Leadership Development

Recognize Potential

We recently started a six-month leadership training program with a new client. The participants are accepted into the program only after they have been nominated by someone at or above their position in the company, and they have successfully passed the program’s interview process.

To Successfully Implement the Plan – Change Behaviors

Implementation is normally the hardest and most frustrating part of any business planning or business development activity. You have to implement a plan that has not yet been proven successful, in addition to dealing with new and ever-occurring crises and unanticipated obstacles along the way.

So You Say You Coach Your Employees

Sound familiar? "Oh yes. Our employees are our most valuable asset."

When Frugal Is Costly

There's no disputing the importance of controlling costs when running a business. However, many business owners actually waste their company's money because they focus on being frugal instead of using the company's money wisely.

Increase Efforts — Increase Success

Quite often, when we set goals for ourselves, we set goals in ways that do no more for us than make us feel good at that moment. We set goals such as: “I’m going to find a new job within the next two weeks that pays me $5,000 more per year than my last job.”

7 Skills of a Strong Leader

A client recently asked me to help him identify leadership skills his daughter would need to develop to help her successfully takeover and lead the family business in a few years.

What’s Your Word Worth?

Regardless of the topic I am presenting, many clients indicate the greatest frustration with co-workers, supervisors, team members, or managers is another person’s inability to keep his or her word.

Leadership Clashes

In meeting with a prospective client this week, an all too common issue presented itself: The client wants to tweak the organization's culture. The leaders want to enhance their managers' and front-line team members' ability to work together, communicate with one another, and generally create a more comfortable workplace.

Unhappy Employees? What didn’t YOU do?

A client recently told me she believes one of her key employees may be looking for a new job. My client was nervous and feeling a bit defeated at losing another star employee. Sarah (not her real name) is smart, efficient, organized, and articulate.

Systems Increase Value

It's odd how things happen sometimes. Unknown to one another, a good friend and a valued client each called me this week to say that they'd made the decision to sell one of their respective companies.