by Liane Davey | Oct 18, 2015 | About teams, Be a better team leader, Communication, Exercises, How to fix teams, Meetings
Meetings are where team goodness should happen, but meetings these days tend to be awful. I’m in the midst of a series on better meetings. I started with how to split different topics into weekly, monthly, and quarterly meetings. Then I dove in with detailed...
by Liane Davey | Oct 11, 2015 | About teams, Exercises, How to fix teams, Meetings
One of the most common outcomes of the first team effectiveness session with a new team is an overhaul of the team’s meeting structure. It happens through a very logical conversation that starts with what’s changing in the world, moves to the value the team needs to...
by Liane Davey | Oct 4, 2015 | Be a better team leader, Communication, Exercises, How to fix teams
I’m on a bit of a roll on the topic of collaboration on teams. This little flurry of posts stemmed from three teams in a row that raised concerns about the lack of shared ownership for each other’s work. In the first post, I focused on the importance of getting input...
by Liane Davey | Sep 30, 2015 | Be a better team leader, Be a better team member, Communication, Horror Stories, How to fix teams, Right Words to Say
In three sessions with three different teams recently, the key theme has been the lack of shared ownership: A phenomenon one participant described as “everyone swimming their own race.“ This affects the value added by the team in two ways. First, when you’re...
by Liane Davey | Sep 27, 2015 | Be a better team leader, Be a better team member, Communication, Horror Stories, How to fix teams
Many of the team members I’m working with right now feel caught between two opposing forces. On the one hand, they’re living in matrix structures that require tightly aligned team behavior and interdependence. On the other hand, they feel the weight of the...
by Liane Davey | Sep 23, 2015 | Be a better team leader, Be a better team member, How to fix teams
In my previous post, I talked about the blight of teams today: the overpowering compulsion to go fast. I’m not delusional and arguing for a return to the leisurely pace of the good old days. I’m just worried that teams that try to go fast actually go slowly....
