by Liane Davey | Feb 15, 2016 | Be a better team member, Connect, Horror Stories
Organizational change is difficult to navigate at the best of times. When structures shift, processes transform, and expectations rise, you’re already stretched out of your comfort zone. Now imagine the added angst when that change includes new bosses, making obvious...
by Liane Davey | Feb 7, 2016 | About teams, Be a better team leader, Contribute, Horror Stories, How to fix teams
A couple of weeks ago, I did a feature on how teams are sinking into the weeds. In that post, I talked about the nature of effective team conversations and the dimensions on which those conversations start to lose value. Now, I’ve turned that post into a handy-dandy...
by Liane Davey | Jan 24, 2016 | About teams, Bad Leaders, Contribute, Horror Stories
Many of the leadership teams I work with are perpetually stuck in the weeds. They add value about 3 layers below where they should be. This yields two atrocious outcomes. First, while you’re trapped in the weeds, no one is paying attention to the opportunities and...
by Liane Davey | Nov 24, 2015 | About teams, Horror Stories
In my previous post, I shared a trend that is alarming me: the homogenization of executives into a couple of more dominant styles and the weeding out of two less prevalent perspectives. The two common executives profiles are the doer and the dreamer. Each of...
by Liane Davey | Nov 22, 2015 | About teams, Horror Stories
I’m troubled by a pattern that is emerging in the data I collect about executive teams. The perspectives of the individual team members are alarmingly skewed. Of the four possible profiles on the tool I use, two account for at least 80% of executives with the...
by Liane Davey | Nov 15, 2015 | Bad Leaders, Be a better team leader, Be a better team member, Communication, Horror Stories, Right Words to Say
I gave a keynote session last week to a group of Health and Safety experts. Following the speech, they were asking questions about the impact of dysfunctional teams on workplace mental health. Someone asked for assistance in dealing with a co-worker who doesn’t pull...
