by Liane Davey | Feb 15, 2015 | About teams, Be a better team member, Communication, Exercises, How to fix teams, Meetings, Right Words to Say
How often do you meet with your team without actually communicating with them? For one team I worked with recently, that kind of meeting was commonplace. Now they were offsite with an opportunity to dig deeply into some of the most pressing questions facing the team....
by Liane Davey | Jan 25, 2015 | About teams, Be a better team leader, Be a better team member, Communication, Conflict, Emotions, How to fix teams
“Come on Liane…executives don’t talk about emotions around the boardroom table!” asserted an incredulous member of a team I was working with recently. We were in the midst of a very uncomfortable and intense conversation about an issue that had been surfacing...
by Liane Davey | Jan 13, 2015 | About teams, Be a better team leader, How to fix teams
In the first session of every High Performance Team process, we have the team generate a list of verbs that describe what they should be doing with their time together. With leadership teams, the list usually includes words like strategize, prioritize, and envision....
by Liane Davey | Dec 10, 2014 | About teams, Success Stories
I am frequently asked how I would define a vital team? That’s not as random as it sounds—the Knightsbridge team effectiveness process is called Vital Teams™, so people want a vision of what their team will look like once we’ve taken them through the...
by Liane Davey | Nov 16, 2014 | About teams, Be a better team leader, Be a better team member, Communication, Conflict, How to fix teams, Right Words to Say
Frequently, I watch teams trying to solve an issue that seems straight forward while observing that their behavior says it’s anything but. I see people interrupting, I hear yelling, I notice tears welling up. Then I know that it’s not an intellectual debate,...
by Liane Davey | Oct 8, 2014 | About teams, Be a better team member, Conflict, How to fix teams
Trust is one of the most critical factors in building a high performing team. Without trust, things move slowly (often one step forward and two steps back), redundancy and rework increases, and engagement drops while stress goes up. If there is an absence of trust on...
