by Liane Davey | Apr 22, 2018 | About teams, Communication, Interviews, Personal Effectiveness
Something a little different today. Rather than a post, I’m bringing you an interview with the marvelous Mark Bowden, a world-renowned body language expert and member of the wildly popular Behavior Panel. I had the opportunity to talk to Mark about his new book, Truth...
by Liane Davey | Feb 25, 2018 | About teams, Be a better team leader, Headline News, Horror Stories, Strategy & Planning
I read an excellent article in the Wall Street Journal this week entitled “How Jeffrey Immelt’s ‘Success Theater’ Masked the Rot at GE.” In it, authors Thomas Gryta, Joann Lublin, and David Benoit describe how the Immelt and his top leaders, “projected an optimism...
by Liane Davey | Feb 18, 2018 | About teams, Be a better team leader, Be a better team member, Connect, Right Words to Say
We got talking about expectations in a session I was facilitating last week. The conversation was like a giant projective test; quickly exposing the participants’ core ideologies about people, and relationships, and trust. Some of the people around the table talked...
by Liane Davey | Feb 11, 2018 | About teams, Conflict, Horror Stories, Strategy & Planning
I’m deep into writing my new book and I’ve had an epiphany: Organizations are built to require conflict while employees are built to avoid it. I see this impact of this problem every day, but it took me 20 years to name it. Now it’s so clear. We have set up a...
by Liane Davey | Feb 4, 2018 | About teams, Be a better team leader, Be a better team member, Communication, Contribute, Feedback, Personal Effectiveness, Right Words to Say
I facilitated a workshop this week that has given me lots of juicy fodder for discussion here with you. The session focused on uncomfortable discussions, including considerable time on how to give and to receive feedback. The conversation evolved as it usually does:...
by Liane Davey | Nov 26, 2017 | About teams, Conflict, Horror Stories, How to fix teams
In my previous post, I shared with you the idea of “conflict debt,” where we avoid the uncomfortable conversations that are desperately needed for the health of our organizations, our teams, and ourselves. When we avoid these prickly situations, we rack up conflict...
