The Leadership Insights Blog by Liz Weber, CMC, CSP
Effective Leadership Strategies to Boost Your Business
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Plot Your Succession Plan
I was recently asked by an executive team,
"How do we start pulling a Succession Plan together? We believe we have many of the pieces already, but we don't know what to do with them."
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!
Your Real Competitive Advantage
“The one thing competitors can't quickly access is the brains of your work force.”
Bingo! That's exactly what I've been telling my clients for years.
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.
Share Your Lessons Learned: Develop New Leaders
My client's goal was to develop their next generation of leaders. At a recent meeting I wasn't surprised to hear every group of senior managers complain about the weak or under-developed personnel management, delegation, strategic thinking and personal accountability skills in their direct-report managers.
Who Is The Project Manager?
A brilliant and gutsy move for leaders is to continually develop his or her managers' project management skills. When this happens, the leader is ensuring the organization's future.