by Liane Davey | Nov 9, 2014 | Be a better team leader, Exercises, How to fix teams, Meetings
Inefficient Meetings Do your meetings go off on tangents so that two hours later you’ve covered a wide swath of territory but made no progress? Do you find yourself at cross purposes with teammates getting frustrated that you can’t seem to figure out why you’re...
by Liane Davey | Oct 26, 2014 | Be a better team leader, Be a better team member, Conflict, How to fix teams, Personal Effectiveness, Stress Management
Are you aware of what stresses you out? Quick, when I say “stressful situation at work” what comes to mind? Standing in front of a room full of people giving a presentation? Having to mingle with a whole room full of people you don’t know? Being given control of a...
by Liane Davey | Oct 19, 2014 | Be a better team leader, Conflict, How to fix teams, Right Words to Say
Several questions from audience members at recent speeches got me thinking about trust and what can be done to increase trust on teams. This fourth post in the series moves away from my normal focus on personal accountability to look at some of the practices and...
by Liane Davey | Oct 15, 2014 | Be a better team member, Communication, How to fix teams, Personal Effectiveness, Right Words to Say
After several audience members at my recent speeches have asked about the role of trust on their teams, I decided to dedicate a few posts to the topic. You can read previous posts in the trust series: your trust mindset and increasing your teammates’ trust in you...
by Liane Davey | Oct 8, 2014 | About teams, Be a better team member, Conflict, How to fix teams
Trust is one of the most critical factors in building a high performing team. Without trust, things move slowly (often one step forward and two steps back), redundancy and rework increases, and engagement drops while stress goes up. If there is an absence of trust on...
by Liane Davey | Oct 5, 2014 | Be a better team member, Communication, Feedback, How to fix teams, Hybrid Work, Right Words to Say, Virtual Teams
Every time I give a speech these days, I get at least a couple of questions about how my techniques apply to virtual teams. Given that my team at Knightsbridge is a virtual team across two countries and four different time zones, I appreciate the challenge. I have...
