by Liane Davey | Mar 2, 2026 | Personal Effectiveness, Resources, Team Leadership
Open Drawbridge Questions Strong reactions at work are signals. They tell you something important feels under threat. The instinct is to defend or deflect. The opportunity is to get curious. These questions help you do that. Open the Drawbridge Some More Great...
by Liane Davey | Sep 21, 2025 | Personal Effectiveness
Well, there goes summer. Was your summer less a sipping-mocktails-from-a-floaty-in-the-lake kind of summer and more a, at least I can see a lake while I’m on this Zoom call kind of summer? Yeah, mine too. That’s what I signed up for when I decided to write a book this...
by Liane Davey | Jun 29, 2025 | Personal Effectiveness
In this final post in my series on managing your energy at work, I want to distinguish between two different kinds of motivation: the kind that comes from opening yourself up to ideas that inspire you and the kind that comes from delving deep into your values,...
by Liane Davey | Jun 22, 2025 | Personal Effectiveness
You’ve probably had days where you start off feeling fully charged, only to find yourself on low power by mid-afternoon. Sometimes, it’s hard to explain why. You got a good night’s sleep, ate the protein, took five-minute breaks every hour, and used all the energy...
by Liane Davey | Jun 8, 2025 | Personal Effectiveness
Does your energy run out long before your to-do list? Are you exhausted and uninspired by 3 p.m.? Does your family get the spent, hollow version of you every evening because you’ve left it all on the field at work? That sucks. Let’s figure out how to make your energy...
by Liane Davey | May 25, 2025 | Personal Effectiveness, Team Dysfunction
When I first began this series on drama in the workplace, I invoked Cy Wakeman’s definition of “arguing with reality.” We talked about all the ways your hapless colleagues might be circling the drain and how you can put in the stopper. Thus far, we haven’t even...
