by Liane Davey | Sep 13, 2015 | Be a better team member, Horror Stories, Stress Management
About the fourth week of August this year, the early warning systems started signaling an oncoming tsunami. Three alarms went off for me. First, my editor at HBR.org asked if I could contribute to their increasingly popular series on stress in the workplace. Second,...
by Liane Davey | Sep 9, 2015 | Be a better team member, Success Stories
Thank you to those of you who have sent notes complaining about the dearth of posts this summer. It’s nice to know that you miss them! It’s been an eventful summer for me and my reaction was to think more and write less. My kids headed back to school Tuesday...
by Liane Davey | Aug 19, 2015 | Be a better team member, Horror Stories, How to fix teams
“We could get rid of 20% of our employees and it would have little meaningful impact on our output.” That was the assertion of a leader I was working with. He runs a sizeable organization, so 20% represented thousands of people. Was he really saying that his...
by Liane Davey | Jul 29, 2015 | Be a better team member, Conflict, Horror Stories, Right Words to Say
I received a great question from the ChangeYourTeam community recently: How long should it take after joining a team for a new member to be treated fairly? Of course the obvious answer is “no time!” I would hope that a new team member would be treated fairly...
by Liane Davey | Jul 22, 2015 | Be a better team member, Conflict, Personal Effectiveness
I am becoming increasingly convinced that the ability to have conflict effectively is the holy grail of team effectiveness. I spend day after day helping team members understand the benefits of conflict, defining the nature of conflict required, and building...
by Liane Davey | Jun 24, 2015 | About teams, Be a better team member, Exercises, Success Stories
Tomorrow is the end of another school year for my daughter Mac. She’s just finishing grade 3 and a year’s worth of schoolwork is coming home in her backpack. I always enjoy looking at my kids’ work, but this time there was something really cool…something that...
