The Leadership Insights Blog by Liz Weber, CMC, CSP

Effective Leadership Strategies to Boost Your Business

Competency Bias is Killing Your Organization

Your organization was founded on and has worked to maintain a culture of mutual support and respect. These ideals are even memorialized in your organization’s values.

Create Values That Support Your Culture

If you’re like most organizations today, you’re struggling to attract, train, develop, promote, and retain great team members. Heck, you’re struggling to find and retain team members - regardless of how great they may be!
Today may be rough for your team. I have a few thoughts…

Today may be rough for your team. I have a few thoughts…

A client called me yesterday. She was really hurting because of the low morale and the state of divisiveness she's seeing in her team, her family, her community, and the country because of the pandemic, ongoing social issues, and our current political turmoil. So we talked.
Marry Your Values to Your New Work Culture

Marry Your Values to Your New Work Culture

As you continue to refine your organization’s current work culture, whether remote or in-person, don’t forget your organization’s values. Your organization’s values are your organization’s ‘House Rules.’
When Your Values Mean Nothing

When Your Values Mean Nothing

What do you do when your organization’s values mean nothing? Or, worse yet, they’re viewed by your employees with disdain? If you’re smart, you realize it’s time to do some of the hardest work you’ve ever had to do as a leader.

To Be Nimble You Need Concise Plans, Values, Respect, and Necessary Conversations

If you haven’t read it yet, read Adam Bryant’s book: Quick and Nimble – Lessons from Leading C.E.O.’s on How to Create a Culture of Innovation.
Use It or Lose It

Use It or Lose It

We've hit that part of the Strategic Planning process with a few of our clients:  It's time for them to put what they've developed to the test. Specifically, a few clients are facing difficult situations with select key staff members. 

Incivility in the Workplace

Within a two-day period, two separate clients called to schedule training sessions on Diversity, also called Incivility in the Workplace. Both reported they had recently experienced a nasty incident among co-workers at their respective offices, and they felt they needed to formally remind staff of basic civil, non-discriminatory conduct.
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.