by Liane Davey | Mar 30, 2016 | Be a better team leader, Communication, Connect, Exercises
Pick up your pen and write your name. Easy-peasy, right? Now, put your pen in your other hand and write your name again. What was your reaction to my instructions? How did it feel as you tried to scratch out something legible? I did this exercise yesterday with a...
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...
by Liane Davey | Feb 28, 2016 | Be a better team leader, Contribute, Feedback, Right Words to Say
Most of the companies I have worked with have, at some point, stuck the word “one” in front of their company name and heralded it as a great new era. “We are now One Acme!” [Cue the trumpets and unfurl the banners.] To be fair, these efforts were in reaction to...
by Liane Davey | Feb 7, 2016 | About teams, Be a better team leader, Contribute, Horror Stories, How to fix teams
A couple of weeks ago, I did a feature on how teams are sinking into the weeds. In that post, I talked about the nature of effective team conversations and the dimensions on which those conversations start to lose value. Now, I’ve turned that post into a handy-dandy...
by Liane Davey | Jan 27, 2016 | Be a better team leader, Contribute, How to fix teams, Right Words to Say
I’m constantly pushing leadership teams to get out of the weeds and to add value at an appropriate level. (See my previous post for how to tell if you’re in the weeds.) They are continually pushing back with a collection of excuses for why it’s not possible. Paramount...
by Liane Davey | Jan 13, 2016 | About teams, Be a better team leader
I love it when my work insights and my personal insights collide. Today is one of those days. I’ll skip to the punch line: The insight is that not every organization is, or should be, a democracy. Leaders sometimes need to impose an unpopular decision. First, I’ll...
