by Liane Davey | Dec 7, 2016 | Bad Leaders, Be a better team leader, Contribute
I’m usually the one urging managers to delegate more. Too often, you get way into the weeds and cause all sorts of damage. There is one important exception to that rule. It’s complete abdication of your responsibility as a leader when you delegate prioritization to...
by Liane Davey | Dec 4, 2016 | About teams, Be a better team leader, Contribute, How to fix teams, Strategy & Planning
There were many things to learn from the 2016 U.S. Presidential election. One of the lessons that has considerable application to the workplace is the risk of living in an echo chamber. The term “echo chamber” was used to describe the propensity of voters to surround...
by Liane Davey | Nov 30, 2016 | About teams, Be a better team leader, Contribute, Strategy & Planning
If there is one line I hear over and over from the middle layers of management, it’s “what are we going to stop doing?” They are desperate for activities to be removed from their very full plates if new ones are going to be added. Although trade-offs are welcomed by...
by Liane Davey | Nov 27, 2016 | Be a better team leader, Be a better team member, Contribute, Horror Stories
The tendency to micro-manage can start in response to someone’s dereliction of duty deep in the organization or it can start at the top with an unhealthy need for control. Regardless of where it starts, micro-management becomes a vicious cycle that quickly reduces the...
by Liane Davey | Nov 16, 2016 | Bad Leaders, Be a better team leader, Contribute, Strategy & Planning
When Craig and I are invited to work with a team, it’s common that the client cites trust issues as one of the reasons for engaging us. Although it’s immediately apparent that trust is weak, once we get working with the team, often the trust issues turn out to be the...
by Liane Davey | Nov 6, 2016 | Be a better team member, Contribute, Exercises, Personal Effectiveness
I stumbled upon an old post I had written for Psychology Today and decided to resurrect and refresh it for the blog. It’s about being inspired in the month of November to say “no” to more things. In the time since I first wrote the post, my concern about people saying...
