by Liane Davey | May 16, 2021 | About teams, Bad Leaders, Horror Stories, How to fix teams, Personal Effectiveness, Right Words to Say, Team Effectiveness, Toxic Workplaces
The term “bullying” gets bandied about liberally in conversations about team dysfunction. For what it’s worth, I believe too liberally. How often do you hear someone claiming to be bullied? Bullying is an extremely serious, toxic dynamic that causes profound stress...
by Liane Davey | Apr 25, 2021 | Communication, Contribute, Personal Effectiveness, Right Words to Say, Strategy & Planning
This post is a part of Strategy Month—my 30-day LinkedIn series aimed at bringing strategy down from its lofty perch and providing the ideas, techniques, and tools to democratize strategy in your team or organization. So far, we’ve had Strategy Creation week, Strategy...
by Liane Davey | Mar 28, 2021 | Be a better team member, Communication, Personal Effectiveness
View the video transcript of this post here “Don’t interrupt.” It’s right up there with “don’t talk with your mouth open,” “don’t talk about sex, politics, or religion,” and “don’t overshare” in the pantheon of rules for polite conversation. But around here, we like...
by Liane Davey | Feb 14, 2021 | Personal Effectiveness, Right Words to Say
We’re halfway through February and I suppose that most of the New Year’s resolutions have worn off by now (although I’m still on my 45-day streak of getting my Inbox to zero each morning). It’s time to settle into the year and to decide what changes will really make a...
by Liane Davey | Jan 10, 2021 | Be a better team member, Change, Personal Effectiveness, Strategy & Planning
A few years ago, I made my choice in the raging debate about whether it is best to start a new year with resolutions, intentions, or themes. I chose themes. The most successful year of doing this for me was the (second) year when I chose “joy” as my theme...
by Liane Davey | Dec 13, 2020 | Personal Effectiveness
(This photo is by the phenomenal Becky Wright. Becky, who pivoted her photography business during Covid to doing remote photoshoots from her home in the UK. This was an early shot, on my crappy old iPhone and before she got new software…but I love how it...