by Liane Davey | Dec 17, 2017 | Conflict, Emotions, Personal Effectiveness
I’m in the midst of a series of posts exploring our profound conflict aversion and its toll on businesses, teams, and individuals. In previous posts, I shared a couple of the things we’re taught as children that give rise to our conflict aversion: “If you can’t say...
by Liane Davey | Dec 10, 2017 | Be a better team member, Conflict
We’re not having enough conflict. We need more conflict to trigger innovation, mitigate risks, surface issues that could erode trust, and to advocate for ourselves. Although you know intellectually that working through the conflict is important, the voices inside your...
by Liane Davey | Dec 3, 2017 | Be a better team member, Conflict, How to fix teams, Right Words to Say
We’re not having enough conflict. Our conflict debt is costing us dearly: as organizations, we fail to prioritize and accomplish little; as teams, we work around the problem people and overwhelm the good ones; as individuals, we stifle our concerns and become...
by Liane Davey | Nov 26, 2017 | About teams, Conflict, Horror Stories, How to fix teams
In my previous post, I shared with you the idea of “conflict debt,” where we avoid the uncomfortable conversations that are desperately needed for the health of our organizations, our teams, and ourselves. When we avoid these prickly situations, we rack up conflict...
by Liane Davey | Nov 19, 2017 | Conflict
When I work as an advisor to executive teams, the most common team effectiveness problem I see is too little conflict. But how do I convince you that working through conflict is good? How do I talk about the problems that arise when you avoid conflict? I finally...
by Liane Davey | Oct 29, 2017 | About teams, Be a better team leader, Be a better team member, Conflict, Exercises, How to fix teams, Right Words to Say, Strategy & Planning
Does your team have a “too hard pile?” Is there a list of issues that everyone knows need to be addressed for your business to evolve, but there is tactic agreement that they would be so uncomfortable, so messy to discuss that you just work around them? That’s what...
