by Liane Davey | Jul 31, 2016 | About teams, Be a better team leader, Be a better team member, Communication, How to fix teams
At least once a day I hear someone talk about the importance of balance. Balance is the elusive state of having two or more things in the right proportion or the right emphasis, amount, or weight. CEO’s talk about balancing revenue, cost, and customer satisfaction....
by Liane Davey | Jul 17, 2016 | Be a better team member, Communication, Connect, Feedback, Personal Effectiveness
I have a new speech that I’m working on called “The New Nice.” It’s the culmination of all my work on increasing productive conflict and getting comfortable being uncomfortable. One of the topics in the speech is how to give feedback. At a recent keynote, I was...
by Liane Davey | Jul 12, 2016 | About teams, Be a better team member, Contribute, Exercises, How to fix teams
Since the seminal work of Charles Spearman at the turn of the 20th century, we have been studying, measuring, and eventually selecting for, individual intelligence. If you want to, you can find out if you’re smarter than a fifth grader. Until recently, we haven’t...
by Liane Davey | Jun 25, 2016 | About teams, Be a better team member, Contribute, Strategy & Planning
Facilitating executive teams as they develop their business strategies is one of my favorite things to do. I love learning about shifting dynamics in individual industries and about macro-trends that cut across all industries. I get charged up when a client connects...
by Liane Davey | Jun 19, 2016 | About teams, Be a better team member, Conflict, Horror Stories
A great test of whether or not a leadership team has high trust is how they handle the movement of people across different departments. More often than not, shady dealings expose the true nature of the relationship, which is essentially collaboration when...
by Liane Davey | Jun 12, 2016 | Be a better team member, Contribute, Exercises, Personal Effectiveness
If you had nothing but flour and water to eat, you would survive for a while. But combine this flour and water and make it into bread and you would be nourished for a lifetime. This is a paraphrase from the amazing Netflix documentary Cooked, by food journalist...
