by Liane Davey | May 4, 2016 | Be a better team leader, Communication, How to fix teams, Meetings, Right Words to Say
When working with senior executives, one of the most common requests I get is to help create “juicy conversations.” What they mean by “juicy” is deep, probing, uncomfortable, novel, productive conversations that go beyond the normal safe, boring talk that...
by Liane Davey | Apr 20, 2016 | Be a better team leader, Communication, Contribute, How to fix teams, Right Words to Say
“We’re smart people, we kick off a lot of ideas.” This was a quote from a participant in the Cascading Strategy workshop we delivered last week. We were in the midst of a discussion about clearing out some low value work to make room for the new strategic priorities...
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...
by Liane Davey | Mar 6, 2016 | About teams, Be a better team member, How to fix teams
It’s one of those days where I didn’t have an idea of what to write about so I started Googling random things. Just for fun, I keyed in “secret of effective teamwork.” I read a bunch of articles before my inner voice starting yelling: THERE IS NO SECRET OF EFFECTIVE...
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 | Feb 3, 2016 | Be a better team member, Communication, Conflict, Connect, How to fix teams, Personal Effectiveness, Right Words to Say
I’m in the midst of an exciting new project building the very first 3COze product. We’ve decided that of all the tools to help teams become more effective, the ones that are most needed are the tools to help teams have more productive conflict. Our conflict toolkit is...
