by Liane Davey | Mar 5, 2017 | About teams, Bad Leaders, Be a better team member, Conflict, Right Words to Say
I gave a speech last week to a group of leaders from the legal industry. The audience was filled with the people who support the lawyers: people from HR, marketing, finance, etc. I was talking about the importance of productive conflict when an audience member asked...
by Liane Davey | Dec 7, 2016 | Bad Leaders, Be a better team leader, Contribute
I’m usually the one urging managers to delegate more. Too often, you get way into the weeds and cause all sorts of damage. There is one important exception to that rule. It’s complete abdication of your responsibility as a leader when you delegate prioritization to...
by Liane Davey | Nov 16, 2016 | Bad Leaders, Be a better team leader, Contribute, Strategy & Planning
When Craig and I are invited to work with a team, it’s common that the client cites trust issues as one of the reasons for engaging us. Although it’s immediately apparent that trust is weak, once we get working with the team, often the trust issues turn out to be the...
by Liane Davey | Oct 26, 2016 | About teams, Bad Leaders, Be a better team leader, Strategy & Planning
“We’re lucky. Times are good and it’s pretty easy to manage right now.” This is a quote from a member of an executive team I’m working with right now. He’s right, times are good for their business…really good. He’s also right that the steady sales and recurring...
by Liane Davey | Oct 23, 2016 | Bad Leaders, Be a better team leader, Horror Stories, How to fix teams, Strategy & Planning
In my last post, I was ranting about the number of people who like to think of themselves as leaders but who are just glorified (and overpaid) individual contributors. I started to describe the activities that leaders at any level need to do to get their team on the...
by Liane Davey | Oct 19, 2016 | Bad Leaders, Be a better team leader, Contribute, Horror Stories
Somehow, we’ve ended up with very few leaders in our organizations and a whole heck of a lot of very highly paid individual contributors. I’m getting pretty frustrated by this. I know immediately that it’s a problem in an organization when the CEO starts talking about...
