by Liane Davey | Jun 5, 2016 | About teams, Be a better team member, Contribute, Meetings
I’ve watched you do it. While you’re presenting your content at the meeting, you’re interested and engaged and you add so much value. I love your passion and your feisty defense of your plan. But then someone else takes the floor and in the blink of an eye you’re a...
by Liane Davey | Jun 1, 2016 | About teams, Be a better team member, Right Words to Say
A change in team leadership can be highly disruptive. I’m on post three of a three-part series on succession and its impact on teams. I started with what to do (and not do) if you’ve decided to vie for your boss’ job. Next, I spoke about the impact of the succession...
by Liane Davey | May 29, 2016 | About teams, How to fix teams
This is post two in a three-part series about changes in your team’s leadership. In the first post, I talked about the decision to vie for your boss’ job and how to behave while you’re in the running. This post is for the folks who aren’t interested in the job...
by Liane Davey | May 25, 2016 | About teams, Contribute, Personal Effectiveness
Three events recently have got me thinking about leadership transitions and their impact on teams. First, I attended a one-day conference of Industrial Psychology practitioners and heard a panel of CEO succession experts. Second, I started working with a client where...
by Liane Davey | May 15, 2016 | About teams, Communication, Contribute, How to fix teams, Meetings
I was talking with someone this morning about the sorry state of meetings. We spend so much time in the weeds and waste a precious opportunity to have valuable conversations about stuff that really matters. We talked about a few things, but the one that left me fired...
by Liane Davey | Mar 27, 2016 | About teams, Bad Leaders, Be a better team leader, Communication, Connect, Horror Stories, How to fix teams, Right Words to Say
It can be extremely frustrating when one of your teammates isn’t cooperating. But at least when it’s one of your own teammates that’s behaving badly, you have some recourse with your mutual manager. With constructive and mature feedback, you’re likely to make progress...
