The Leadership Insights Blog by Liz Weber, CMC, CSP
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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.
Are You Doing What You’re Paid To Do?
At work, how often do you feel like a chicken with your head cut off? You run around all day handling one crisis after another. You run from one meeting to the next. You take one phone call after another.
Procrastination Leadership
Take a look around your office. Look at your desk. Look at your email In-Box. As you look at the various piles of papers and streams of emails, ask yourself, "What am I dodging? What am I trying to delay?
Leadership – Do You Have What It Takes?
Jack Welch indicated some of his keys to Leadership success in his book “Jack – Straight from the Gut”. As the CEO of General Electric, he realized tremendous success.
Work-Life or Life-Work Balance?
The Herman Group issued a great report that indicates more and more employees are seeking employment with organizations that value their corporate values.
Don’t Be a Wimpy Manager
What's a wimpy manager? It's a manager who isn't honest, fair, and clear with her employees on her expectations. It's a manager who believes she's being nice by not telling her employees when they're under-performing, veering off-track, or flat-out behaving in unacceptable ways.
The One Thing
Unlike the movie City Slickers in which Billy Crystal's character realizes that "The One Thing" in life that will make you happy is different for everyone, in business, we must make it very clear to all of our employees what The One Thing is we're trying to achieve as an organization.
Are you Valuable or Valued?
We've heard over and over "Add value for your customers!" But what does that mean?
According to Webster's Dictionary, VALUE means "Monetary or material worth".