by Liane Davey | May 13, 2015 | Communication, Exercises, How to fix teams, Meetings
Try this at your next team meeting. Rather than having a standard conversation about ground rules, try using this question instead. What could you do (or not do) today that would make you really proud of yourself? I was working with a team recently: a leadership team...
by Liane Davey | Apr 5, 2015 | About teams, Be a better team leader, Exercises, How to fix teams
In my previous post, I recommended that teams move to a collaborative process for setting performance objectives. It’s a practice I encourage because of the disconnect that comes from highly interdependent individuals having poor visibility to what their...
by Liane Davey | Mar 29, 2015 | About teams, Be a better team leader, Exercises, How to fix teams
Is teamwork absolutely essential to delivering the plan in your company? Are there multiple interdependencies among you and your teammates that affect your ability to get things done? Are there times when you need to share resources to make sure the most important...
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 | Nov 9, 2014 | Be a better team leader, Exercises, How to fix teams, Meetings
Inefficient Meetings Do your meetings go off on tangents so that two hours later you’ve covered a wide swath of territory but made no progress? Do you find yourself at cross purposes with teammates getting frustrated that you can’t seem to figure out why you’re...
by Liane Davey | Nov 5, 2014 | Be a better team member, Exercises, Personal Effectiveness, Stress Management
Do you work in a job that interests you, stimulates you, and periodically even excites you? I sure hope so! I know I do. And even in what I consider to be my dream job, I sometimes find the demands overwhelming. When’s the next long weekend so I can catch my...
