by Liane Davey | Mar 22, 2015 | About teams, Communication, How to fix teams, Personal Effectiveness, Right Words to Say
There are a lot of activities that look like communication that really shouldn’t count. Sending an email out into the abyss isn’t communicating. Popping into someone’s office to say something and then moving right along isn’t communicating. Listening to...
by Liane Davey | Mar 8, 2015 | Bad Leaders, Be a better team leader, Be a better team member, Communication, Conflict, Emotions, Horror Stories, How to fix teams
Last week I wrote a post about crying at work. Interestingly (but maybe not surprisingly), I didn’t get much feedback from men. (Too radioactive to weigh in, maybe?) I did, however, get very polarized feedback from women. While there were many who wrote to...
by Liane Davey | Mar 1, 2015 | Be a better team leader, Be a better team member, Communication, Emotions, Personal Effectiveness, Right Words to Say
I’ve been writing this blog for quite a while. I’ve shared the things I see as an executive team advisor, and I’ve exposed (and tried to be authentic about) the issues that I personally struggle with as a team member. But there’s one topic I...
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 | Feb 8, 2015 | Be a better team leader, Communication, Horror Stories, Personal Effectiveness
I was having lunch with a friend this week and talking about raising kids. My friend said something that really stuck with me. She said she could already see the fears and anxieties she had passed on to her kids: evidence of her own insecurities reflected in...
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...
