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 | May 15, 2016 | About teams, Communication, Contribute, How to fix teams, Meetings
I was talking with someone this morning about the sorry state of meetings. We spend so much time in the weeds and waste a precious opportunity to have valuable conversations about stuff that really matters. We talked about a few things, but the one that left me fired...
by Liane Davey | May 11, 2016 | Be a better team member, Communication
I was treated to such a nice Mothers’ Day this year. While enjoying my breakfast in bed, I watched a really interesting documentary on the English castle at Dover. (This was the trifecta for me: documentary, about anything British, with ties to World War II history!)...
by Liane Davey | May 4, 2016 | Be a better team leader, Communication, How to fix teams, Meetings, Right Words to Say
When working with senior executives, one of the most common requests I get is to help create “juicy conversations.” What they mean by “juicy” is deep, probing, uncomfortable, novel, productive conversations that go beyond the normal safe, boring talk that...
by Liane Davey | Apr 20, 2016 | Be a better team leader, Communication, Contribute, How to fix teams, Right Words to Say
“We’re smart people, we kick off a lot of ideas.” This was a quote from a participant in the Cascading Strategy workshop we delivered last week. We were in the midst of a discussion about clearing out some low value work to make room for the new strategic priorities...
