The Leadership Insights Blog by Liz Weber, CMC, CSP
Effective Leadership Strategies to Boost Your Business
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What’s It All For?
Yesterday after giving a speech on leadership, I had lunch with several business owners. All of their businesses generate revenues of $5Million to $50Million in annual revenues.
Succession Planning: Determine What You Need
The most common question I'm asked by new clients who are focusing on succession planning is: "How do I start?" It's a great question and many clients don’t anticipate the answer I give them:
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.