by Liane Davey | Dec 4, 2016 | About teams, Be a better team leader, Contribute, How to fix teams, Strategy & Planning
There were many things to learn from the 2016 U.S. Presidential election. One of the lessons that has considerable application to the workplace is the risk of living in an echo chamber. The term “echo chamber” was used to describe the propensity of voters to surround...
by Liane Davey | Nov 9, 2016 | Be a better team member, How to fix teams, Meetings
This weekend, I facilitated a workshop about change and transformation with a large group of leaders. Once we finished talking about the perilous task of transforming an organization, we started talking about the importance of leaders investing in their own...
by Liane Davey | Oct 23, 2016 | Bad Leaders, Be a better team leader, Horror Stories, How to fix teams, Strategy & Planning
In my last post, I was ranting about the number of people who like to think of themselves as leaders but who are just glorified (and overpaid) individual contributors. I started to describe the activities that leaders at any level need to do to get their team on the...
by Liane Davey | Oct 9, 2016 | About teams, Be a better team leader, Contribute, How to fix teams, Strategy & Planning
I was listening while a group of executives spoke about how to make their organization more agile. What was interesting, was that most of their comments referred to the speed they needed to move, rather than to their agility. I think it’s important to understand the...
by Liane Davey | Oct 5, 2016 | About teams, Be a better team leader, Be a better team member, Conflict, How to fix teams
I’m toying around with writing another book; a thought that creates simultaneous excitement and terror. Given that it’s been three years since You First came out, I thought I better ramp up slowly. I’m going to write a few posts that capture some of the ideas I might...
by Liane Davey | Oct 2, 2016 | Be a better team member, Communication, Conflict, Horror Stories, How to fix teams, Right Words to Say
I spent some time with a team last week that was really suffering because of several months of unhealthy conflict. Relations had deteriorated to the point that team members were feeling disrespected by one another. There was a lot of anger in the room and they needed...
