by Liane Davey | Oct 21, 2018 | Be a better team leader, Exercises, Personal Effectiveness
Leading through change is a particularly difficult assignment. You’re expected to mobilize your team while you’re struggling to master yourself. This month, I’m conducting sessions with the leaders in a large multi-national company to help them cope with their own...
by Liane Davey | Jan 21, 2018 | Be a better team leader, Be a better team member, Communication, Conflict, Exercises, How to fix teams, Right Words to Say
You know that your team is conflict avoidant. You know it’s preventing you from surfacing issues, thoroughly discussing them, and getting them resolved effectively. You really want to make it better, but how do you start? The people on your team (and maybe even your...
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...
by Liane Davey | Oct 1, 2017 | Be a better team leader, Communication, Contribute, Exercises, How to fix teams, Meetings, Success Stories
I was facilitating an executive team meeting last week. Although the meeting had been scheduled as a full day, four people started the day saying that they needed to leave early. (I’ll save my rant about that for later). Four of the team members needed to be gone by...
by Liane Davey | Jan 15, 2017 | Contribute, Exercises
How would you behave if you really meant the things that it says on the plaque on the wall? That’s the question I posed to a group of senior leaders in a high growth organization yesterday. The conversation was part of a program to define their cultural identity after...
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...
