by Liane Davey | Nov 24, 2015 | About teams, Horror Stories
In my previous post, I shared a trend that is alarming me: the homogenization of executives into a couple of more dominant styles and the weeding out of two less prevalent perspectives. The two common executives profiles are the doer and the dreamer. Each of...
by Liane Davey | Nov 22, 2015 | About teams, Horror Stories
I’m troubled by a pattern that is emerging in the data I collect about executive teams. The perspectives of the individual team members are alarmingly skewed. Of the four possible profiles on the tool I use, two account for at least 80% of executives with the...
by Liane Davey | Oct 21, 2015 | About teams, Be a better team leader, Communication, Exercises, How to fix teams, Meetings
You spend a huge amount of time in meetings; make it time well spent. I’m in the midst of a series on better meetings. I started with how to split different topics into weekly, monthly, and quarterly meetings. Then I dove in with detailed instructions on running great...
by Liane Davey | Oct 18, 2015 | About teams, Be a better team leader, Communication, Exercises, How to fix teams, Meetings
Meetings are where team goodness should happen, but meetings these days tend to be awful. I’m in the midst of a series on better meetings. I started with how to split different topics into weekly, monthly, and quarterly meetings. Then I dove in with detailed...
by Liane Davey | Oct 15, 2015 | About teams, Be a better team leader, Communication, Exercises, Meetings
In my previous post, I outlined the ways you can improve your meetings by creating a structure that differentiates meetings based on their purpose. I recommend that you build a meeting structure with weekly operations meetings; monthly business builder...
by Liane Davey | Oct 11, 2015 | About teams, Exercises, How to fix teams, Meetings
One of the most common outcomes of the first team effectiveness session with a new team is an overhaul of the team’s meeting structure. It happens through a very logical conversation that starts with what’s changing in the world, moves to the value the team needs to...
