by Liane Davey | Sep 28, 2016 | Be a better team member, Communication, Contribute, Horror Stories, Personal Effectiveness, Right Words to Say
Imagine that you need additional resources to finish your project on time. Or you’re lobbying to get your choice in a procurement process. Or you want the design of a new product to go a certain way. You need to influence the outcome of a decision and you think to...
by Liane Davey | Sep 25, 2016 | Be a better team leader, Be a better team member, Communication, Feedback, Personal Effectiveness
I love the questions I get at the end of a keynote. This week I got a couple of really good ones. The first was, “How do I handle it when someone asks for feedback and then responds poorly when I provide it?” The best answer starts long before you have someone yelling...
by Liane Davey | Sep 21, 2016 | Communication, Connect, Personal Effectiveness, Uncategorized
Great communication creates a strong connection between you and your audience. Unfortunately, if you’re self-conscious, ill prepared, or wedded to business school formality, you’re probably creating unnecessary distance that’s diluting the impact of your messages....
by Liane Davey | Jul 17, 2016 | Be a better team member, Communication, Connect, Feedback, Personal Effectiveness
I have a new speech that I’m working on called “The New Nice.” It’s the culmination of all my work on increasing productive conflict and getting comfortable being uncomfortable. One of the topics in the speech is how to give feedback. At a recent keynote, I was...
by Liane Davey | Jun 12, 2016 | Be a better team member, Contribute, Exercises, Personal Effectiveness
If you had nothing but flour and water to eat, you would survive for a while. But combine this flour and water and make it into bread and you would be nourished for a lifetime. This is a paraphrase from the amazing Netflix documentary Cooked, by food journalist...
by Liane Davey | May 25, 2016 | About teams, Contribute, Personal Effectiveness
Three events recently have got me thinking about leadership transitions and their impact on teams. First, I attended a one-day conference of Industrial Psychology practitioners and heard a panel of CEO succession experts. Second, I started working with a client where...
