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...
by Liane Davey | May 4, 2025 | Emotions, Personal Effectiveness
Does your team love a little drama? Do you? Whether you do or you don’t, it’s worth understanding why we’re seeing so much petty, personal, and pernicious behavior lately. Workplace drama is not a new phenomenon, but it feels all the more costly in today’s work world,...
by Liane Davey | Apr 20, 2025 | Personal Effectiveness, Prioritization
This month, we’ve been discussing better prioritization. We started by debunking the myth that you can have multiple priorities and established a process for getting to one. Next, we dealt with the challenge of prioritizing when everything is urgent. Today, we’re...
by Liane Davey | Apr 19, 2025 | Emotions, Personal Effectiveness, Video Library
If you’re trying to boost your emotional intelligence, self-awareness is the place to start Self-awareness is your ability to recognize and understand emotions, thoughts, and values, and how they influence behavior. It has both internal and external components. The...
by Liane Davey | Apr 13, 2025 | Personal Effectiveness
I once worked with a woman who quit because our boss kept putting stacks of tasks on her desk, all marked urgent. Each time she tried to clarify what she should do first, the boss just shrugged and said it didn’t matter what came first as long as it all got done. I...
