by Liane Davey | Feb 18, 2015 | Bad Leaders, Be a better team leader, Be a better team member, Horror Stories, Right Words to Say
Good news leaders. My friend and leadership expert Vince Molinaro describes them as leaders who “prefer spin to reality.” They choose to “be in a state of delusion, rather than confronting what’s really going on.” If you present bad news to a good news leader, you get...
by Liane Davey | Feb 15, 2015 | About teams, Be a better team member, Communication, Exercises, How to fix teams, Meetings, Right Words to Say
How often do you meet with your team without actually communicating with them? For one team I worked with recently, that kind of meeting was commonplace. Now they were offsite with an opportunity to dig deeply into some of the most pressing questions facing the team....
by Liane Davey | Jan 28, 2015 | Be a better team leader, Be a better team member, Communication, Conflict, Emotions, How to fix teams, Right Words to Say
In my previous post, I focused on the importance of factoring in the emotional aspects of an issue when your team is struggling or experiencing conflict. If you didn’t read that post, start there first. Once you are convinced that emotions are data to be understood...
by Liane Davey | Jan 25, 2015 | About teams, Be a better team leader, Be a better team member, Communication, Conflict, Emotions, How to fix teams
“Come on Liane…executives don’t talk about emotions around the boardroom table!” asserted an incredulous member of a team I was working with recently. We were in the midst of a very uncomfortable and intense conversation about an issue that had been surfacing...
by Liane Davey | Jan 21, 2015 | Be a better team leader, Be a better team member, Conflict, How to fix teams
“When we tried to shift from siloed decision making to collaborative decision making, we went straight to no decision making at all! We’ve solved for inclusiveness but created indecisiveness.” That’s a paraphrase from a conversation I had with a senior leader last...
by Liane Davey | Jan 18, 2015 | Be a better team member, Communication, Right Words to Say
January 2015 is an exciting time at Knightsbridge. Our ideas are resonating, our business is expanding, and our team is growing. That means new people to hire and integrate. Given that you only get one chance to start a relationship, I wanted to make sure to start...
