The Leadership Insights Blog by Liz Weber, CMC, CSP

Effective Leadership Strategies to Boost Your Business

Why Have a Succession Plan?

Why Have a Succession Plan?

As a leader, you know your organization should have a succession plan. Yet you’ve not been able to justify taking time away from real work to create one. Why take the time to plan for something that might be helpful someday?
How Can I Keep Our Strategic Planning Process Simple?

How Can I Keep Our Strategic Planning Process Simple?

The most common question a strategic planning client asks is: “How can we keep this simple?” The question is being asked typically for one of two reasons: 1) They’ve experienced at least one long and painful planning process, or 2) They’ve never actually created an effective plan.
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.

You Already Know the Answers

My team and I are working with several clients conducting company and leadership assessments to pinpoint areas for improvement. The assessments are fascinating.
Impact Your Customer Experience by Changing Your Culture

Impact Your Customer Experience by Changing Your Culture

A client, the Director of North American Operations, asked me to review a proposed Corporate Leadership Development Program that had just come across his desk. Something about it felt ‘off’ to him, but he couldn’t quite identify what was making him uncomfortable.
Is Your Focus Hurting Your Business?

Is Your Focus Hurting Your Business?

When was the last time you sat back and asked if what you are focusing on providing was actually hurting your business? What might you, your team, or your products be doing that is, in reality, wasting resources or killing sales?
The Greater Legacy

The Greater Legacy

In facilitating a client’s strategic planning retreat recently, one the the board members, known for having a healthy ego, kept pushing for a legacy event that would carry his name.
The Expensive Missing Leadership Skill: Poor Writing Skills Can Cost You

The Expensive Missing Leadership Skill

This is more of a rant than an observation, but I’m seeing it more and more. This missing skill isn’t generation specific. It cuts across all generations and all industries.
Stop doing these 3 things

Stop It!

I believe it’s good practice to regularly sit back and identify things to stop doing. If we don’t regularly stop doing things that are no longer helpful, how can we expect to change, grow, and be better leaders?
Five Reasons Your Senior Managers May Not Be Effective

Five Reasons Your Senior Managers May Not Be Effective

Are your senior-level managers doing the jobs you need them to do? Are they doing and contributing what someone at their level, with their stature and pay, is expected to do and do consistently?