by Liane Davey | Dec 5, 2021 | Be a better team leader, Contribute, How to fix teams, Meetings
How much of your week do you spend in terrible meetings (and by terrible, I mean meetings with poor planning, unclear agenda, facile facilitation, and no clear outcome)? I’m going to share eight things you can do to set your meetings up for success. This post includes...
by Liane Davey | Nov 14, 2021 | Be a better team leader, Contribute, How to fix teams, Meetings
You know how a gymnast loses major marks if they don’t “stick the landing?” That’s how you should think about your meetings. I don’t care how many flips and twists you get in, if you don’t stick the landing, they don’t count. It’s fascinating to me how much time is...
by Liane Davey | Oct 17, 2021 | About teams, Be a better team member, Contribute, How to fix teams, Meetings, Strategy & Planning, Team Effectiveness
Since the advent of nuclear weapons, there have been several incidents where false alarms might have caused a cascade to global thermonuclear annihilation. One such episode was triggered by a flock of Canada geese, one by meteor showers, one by a malfunctioning chip,...
by Liane Davey | Oct 10, 2021 | Be a better team leader, Contribute, Meetings, Strategy & Planning
Do you know the old adage, “a camel is a horse designed by a committee?” That line nails it for me. Imagine you’re sitting in a leadership team meeting. At some point, someone mentions the need for a new way of doing things. It might be a new performance management...
by Liane Davey | Oct 3, 2021 | Be a better team leader, Be a better team member, Contribute, Exercises, Meetings
Imagine you’re sitting in a typical leadership team meeting (and by a leadership team, I mean you’re a people leader and so is everyone else around the table). It probably doesn’t take long before someone raises an issue. Not something that was on the agenda,...
by Liane Davey | Jul 25, 2021 | Communication, Hybrid Work, Meetings, Virtual Teams
Have you suffered through a hybrid video meeting where you’re remote while a few of your teammates are together in person? Here’s my question. Did you at any point: Tune out and get some other work done because two people in the room were so far from the mic that they...
