by Liane Davey | Mar 22, 2015 | About teams, Communication, How to fix teams, Personal Effectiveness, Right Words to Say
There are a lot of activities that look like communication that really shouldn’t count. Sending an email out into the abyss isn’t communicating. Popping into someone’s office to say something and then moving right along isn’t communicating. Listening to...
by Liane Davey | Mar 8, 2015 | Bad Leaders, Be a better team leader, Be a better team member, Communication, Conflict, Emotions, Horror Stories, How to fix teams
Last week I wrote a post about crying at work. Interestingly (but maybe not surprisingly), I didn’t get much feedback from men. (Too radioactive to weigh in, maybe?) I did, however, get very polarized feedback from women. While there were many who wrote to...
by Liane Davey | Mar 4, 2015 | Be a better team leader, Feedback, How to fix teams, Right Words to Say
In my previous post, I talked about emotional reactions to issues at work; specifically, things that make people cry. In that post, I alluded to the idea that advanced warning of difficult messages gives time to process the issue, reduces the surprise factor, and...
by Liane Davey | Feb 15, 2015 | About teams, Be a better team member, Communication, Exercises, How to fix teams, Meetings, Right Words to Say
How often do you meet with your team without actually communicating with them? For one team I worked with recently, that kind of meeting was commonplace. Now they were offsite with an opportunity to dig deeply into some of the most pressing questions facing the team....
by Liane Davey | Feb 11, 2015 | Bad Leaders, Be a better team leader, Horror Stories, How to fix teams
I sat in my boss’ office (in a past life) for the fourth consecutive monthly one-on-one where we didn’t talk about me, but instead talked exclusively about the poor performer on the team. To say I was getting bitter would be an understatement. I was young and...
by Liane Davey | Feb 4, 2015 | Bad Leaders, Be a better team leader, How to fix teams
In my previous post, I shared a big mistake that team leaders make by undervaluing recognition as a form of reward. You can read it here. That got me thinking that in 20 years of consulting there are a few mistakes I’ve seen team leaders make way too often....
