The Leadership Insights Blog by Liz Weber, CMC, CSP

Effective Leadership Strategies to Boost Your Business

Don’t Overcomplicate Your Strategic Plan Implementation

We all know developing a strategic plan is hard. We also know, implementing a strategic plan successfully is brutal.

Don’t Stop Now! Adjust

I know you’re all tired and understandably so. But I think you’d be making a mistake. A classic mistake.
Culture Eats Strategy for…an Appetizer

Culture Eats Strategy for…an Appetizer

We’ve all heard Peter Drucker's saying, “Culture eats strategy for lunch [or breakfast].” I am, of course, not going to disagree with that statement. However, given the work world today, it’s not enough.
Don’t Create a Laundry List. Create a Strategic Plan

Don’t Create a Laundry List. Create a Strategic Plan

It happens frequently. It happens with C-Suite executives as well as with mid-level managers. It happens when the excitement of DOING things to transform the organization takes hold.
Stop Boring Strategic Plan Updates

Stop Boring Strategic Plan Updates

An association executive director asked during a recent coaching conversation, “Am I doing something wrong, or why are the strategic plan review meetings I hold with my senior staff so boring?

Starting a Strategic Initiative? Clarify Your Culture First

Now that you’ve finally hired the additional project team members needed, and you’ve checked, checked, and triple-checked your strategic initiative’s plan and deliverables, it’s time to start your project, right? Wrong.
Stay Relevant. Be Strategic. Do What Matters Most

Stay Relevant. Be Strategic. Do What Matters Most

The COVID pandemic has changed not only how and where we work, it’s also changed our priorities and perspectives.
Avoid the Moth Effect

Avoid the Moth Effect

Leaders, do you know why it is important that your employees know how YOU fit into the overall strategic plan? Too often, we leaders fail to clarify for our employees how OUR actions tie into and align with the overall strategic plan.