by Liane Davey | Jun 9, 2019 | Be a better team member, Communication, Conflict, Contribute, How to fix teams, Right Words to Say
Dumb ideas; you hear them from your colleagues all the time, right? It’s so hard not to roll your eyes and launch into a litany of reasons why they’ll never work. But that tends to start a fight. Recently, I wrote a post that offered an alternative to contradicting,...
by Liane Davey | May 26, 2019 | Be a better team member, Communication, Conflict, Right Words to Say
Have you ever been in an argument and wondered, how the heck did this fight get started? If you could rewind the tape, I bet you’d find it all started innocently with someone trying to resolve an issue. The problem is that they were feeling invested in the issue and...
by Liane Davey | May 12, 2019 | Be a better team member, Communication, How to fix teams
I was giving one of my favorite keynote speeches last week. It’s called, “Change Has Changed,” and it’s about the different ways you need to manage people when change is constant. I spend time at the end talking about the importance of resilience and one of the topics...
by Liane Davey | Apr 21, 2019 | About teams, Be a better team leader, Be a better team member, Communication, Exercises, How to fix teams
I am working with a team of executives who have gotten themselves into a bad spot. Each has become entrenched in the notion that their teammates aren’t trustworthy. Their feelings about each other have already spread to the layers below and the CEO has now heard...
by Liane Davey | Feb 17, 2019 | About teams, Be a better team leader, Be a better team member, Communication, How to fix teams
Thursday was Valentine’s Day. For some, it’s the most romantic day of the year. For others, it’s a huge let down. There’s so much we can learn about healthy teams from Valentine’s Day. That’s because we do the same thing with our colleagues as we do with our...
by Liane Davey | Feb 3, 2019 | About teams, Be a better team leader, Communication, Exercises, How to fix teams, Right Words to Say
You’d be surprised how many trust issues on teams aren’t actually trust issues. Well, that’s not totally fair. They’ve become trust issues, but they didn’t start with team members backstabbing, demonstrating incompetence, or failing to deliver. A significant...
