by Liane Davey | Apr 14, 2014 | Be a better team member, Horror Stories, Personal Effectiveness, Right Words to Say
One of the most difficult and demoralizing workplace situations to endure is when someone criticizes you in front of your whole team. Each of us responds slightly differently to that situation: how you react will depend on your self-confidence, your physical state at...
by Liane Davey | Mar 30, 2014 | Horror Stories, Personal Effectiveness
A story from an audience member at a speech I gave last week has inspired a new series here on the ChangeYourTeam blog: How do I know when it’s time to quit. In this series, I will briefly suspend the “change yourself and you can change your team” mantra that you...
by Liane Davey | Mar 12, 2014 | Be a better team member, Communication, Horror Stories
I recently wrote a guest post for Tanveer Naseer’s great leadership blog. In it, I explore how your biases and prejudices about your team members cause destructive conflict. You can read the full post here. Writing that post gave me the idea to play out a typical...
by Liane Davey | Mar 8, 2014 | Be a better team member, Communication, Horror Stories, Right Words to Say
I was on the stage speaking at a conference about excellence in leadership. I was staring out against the bright lights waiting for the next question from the audience. The question that came made everyone laugh—everyone except me. The question was “why are women so...
by Liane Davey | Mar 5, 2014 | Bad Leaders, Be a better team member, Horror Stories
Lazy leaders. My friend and leadership expert Vince Molinaro describes them as the “leaders who think that their job is to get everyone else to do absolutely everything and don’t work hard themselves.” You know you’re dealing with one of these when there’s lots of...
by Liane Davey | Feb 12, 2014 | Bad Leaders, Horror Stories, How to fix teams, Personal Effectiveness
Wimpy leaders. My friend and leadership expert Vince Molinaro defines wimpy leaders as the “leaders who don’t have the courage or the stomach for the role. The ones who always take the easy way out, don’t do the difficult things.” You know you’re dealing with one of...
