The Leadership Insights Blog by Liz Weber, CMC, CSP

Effective Leadership Strategies to Boost Your Business

Get Your Lunch

Get Your Lunch

Have you ever been hungry for lunch and not able to focus on anything, let alone accomplish anything, until you get some food? Your attention is on one thing: getting food—now!
To Successfully Implement the Plan - Change Behaviors

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.
Systems Increase Value

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.
Plot Your Succession Plan

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."
Your Values Statement Serves as Your House Rules

Your Values Statement Serves as Your House Rules

We have all seen values statements hanging on the walls of various organizations. They're usually nicely framed and tastefully hung for all who pass by to see. However, other than knowing the executive team developed them as part of a strategic planning effort, most of us who walk by our own organization's values statement rarely understand its purpose - other than serving as a nice piece of artwork.
A Mission Statement Clarifies Why You Exist

A Mission Statement Clarifies Why You Exist

Unlike the vision statement, which creates a clear picture of what we want to accomplish or become, the mission statement, clarifies what we do as an organization; why we exist; what purpose we serve. That's its job.
Work Your Plan - How to Manage Your Business Plan

Work Your Plan – How to Manage Your Business Plan

In a recent blog post (10 Reasons to Update Your Business Plan - Why, When & How), we outlined why and when to update your business plan, in this post we'll talk about how to update and manage it.
10 Reasons to Update Your Company's Plan - Why, When & How

10 Indications It’s Time to Update Your Strategic Plan – Why, When & How

If you're wondering when to update your company's strategic plan, here are ten indicators it may be time: Someone wrote "Update Me" in the dust on the printed version of your plan. You vaguely remember creating your plan about the same time you bought your first fax machine.
Managing Lay Offs With Dignity

Managing Layoffs With Dignity

With the potential for layoffs facing so many companies, the realities of laying off great workers is confronting many business owners and managers: owners and managers who have never before faced this hard act.