The Leadership Insights Blog by Liz Weber, CMC, CSP

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Category: Leadership Development

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.

Don’t Expect Kudos for Just Doing Your Job

Do you provide a good product or service to your customers? Do you ship orders on time? Are your employees well trained and professional with each other and with your customers? Do you address customer problems as soon as they arise?

Define the Deliverable

We’ve all created To Do lists, sent them around to our team and sat back waiting for responses and, hopefully, accomplishments. We might even feel a bit smug congratulating ourselves that one of our tasks is done.

Do Your Performance Management Systems Support Performance?

In working with various clients lately, we're seeing a common problem: Each organization has performance management systems that, as currently designed, create problems. These systems create the types of employee behaviors and unsatisfactory performance the client is trying to eliminate!

Support your Stars

I had lunch recently with a woman who is starting to hate her job. She drives to work dreading the day and by 10 AM she's plotting her escape. By Wednesday noon, she looks forward to Friday and every Sunday evening her anxiety level bubbles up because Monday's coming all too soon.

Doing More of the Same

I was standing in the checkout line at the grocery store the other day when I overheard two women behind me reconnect. They had worked together years ago but had gone different ways when their former employer laid them both off.