by Liane Davey | Jun 19, 2016 | About teams, Be a better team member, Conflict, Horror Stories
A great test of whether or not a leadership team has high trust is how they handle the movement of people across different departments. More often than not, shady dealings expose the true nature of the relationship, which is essentially collaboration when...
by Liane Davey | Apr 24, 2016 | Be a better team member, Horror Stories
Over breakfast this morning, Craig shared a story of a really annoying teammate behavior. I agreed wholeheartedly, “phew, that IS annoying!” and then pitched in with another super-duper annoying thing people do. The second begat a third, and the third a fourth, and...
by Liane Davey | Apr 10, 2016 | Be a better team leader, Connect, Horror Stories, Right Words to Say
Do you have someone on your team who always seems to have a little personal storm cloud hovering overhead? You know who I mean: the person who inevitably responds to an exciting initiative by criticizing or complaining. I don’t know about you, but I really struggle to...
by Liane Davey | Apr 6, 2016 | Bad Leaders, Be a better team leader, Connect, Horror Stories
In the previous post, I responded to an email from Susan about the perils of double standards and team leaders who play favorites. To be fair, there are a few legitimate reasons to have favorites, but when those biases affect the opportunities, coaching, feedback, or...
by Liane Davey | Apr 3, 2016 | Bad Leaders, Be a better team leader, Horror Stories
Susan sent in a great topic idea that she wanted me to address here on ChangeYourTeam—the all too common problem of double standards and different rules for the boss’ favorites. In her message, Susan shared a couple of examples of how this causes significant problems...
by Liane Davey | Mar 27, 2016 | About teams, Bad Leaders, Be a better team leader, Communication, Connect, Horror Stories, How to fix teams, Right Words to Say
It can be extremely frustrating when one of your teammates isn’t cooperating. But at least when it’s one of your own teammates that’s behaving badly, you have some recourse with your mutual manager. With constructive and mature feedback, you’re likely to make progress...
