by Liane Davey | Jul 31, 2016 | About teams, Be a better team leader, Be a better team member, Communication, How to fix teams
At least once a day I hear someone talk about the importance of balance. Balance is the elusive state of having two or more things in the right proportion or the right emphasis, amount, or weight. CEO’s talk about balancing revenue, cost, and customer satisfaction....
by Liane Davey | Jul 24, 2016 | About teams, Be a better team leader, How to fix teams
When we get invited to help a team become high performing, occasionally, there is a team member who doesn’t want to participate in the process. It all starts innocuously; the team leader starts by inviting the person to participate and gets in response, “yes, but too...
by Liane Davey | Jul 12, 2016 | About teams, Be a better team member, Contribute, Exercises, How to fix teams
Since the seminal work of Charles Spearman at the turn of the 20th century, we have been studying, measuring, and eventually selecting for, individual intelligence. If you want to, you can find out if you’re smarter than a fifth grader. Until recently, we haven’t...
by Liane Davey | Jun 22, 2016 | About teams, Horror Stories, How to fix teams
I got all excited in my last post about the shady dealings that plague team’s efforts to manage talent effectively; hiding, protecting, hoarding, and stealing good people. As I was writing, I realized that many of these poor talent practices are supported by...
by Liane Davey | May 29, 2016 | About teams, How to fix teams
This is post two in a three-part series about changes in your team’s leadership. In the first post, I talked about the decision to vie for your boss’ job and how to behave while you’re in the running. This post is for the folks who aren’t interested in the job...
by Liane Davey | May 15, 2016 | About teams, Communication, Contribute, How to fix teams, Meetings
I was talking with someone this morning about the sorry state of meetings. We spend so much time in the weeds and waste a precious opportunity to have valuable conversations about stuff that really matters. We talked about a few things, but the one that left me fired...
