by Liane Davey | Apr 20, 2016 | Be a better team leader, Communication, Contribute, How to fix teams, Right Words to Say
“We’re smart people, we kick off a lot of ideas.” This was a quote from a participant in the Cascading Strategy workshop we delivered last week. We were in the midst of a discussion about clearing out some low value work to make room for the new strategic priorities...
by Liane Davey | Apr 10, 2016 | Be a better team leader, Connect, Horror Stories, Right Words to Say
Do you have someone on your team who always seems to have a little personal storm cloud hovering overhead? You know who I mean: the person who inevitably responds to an exciting initiative by criticizing or complaining. I don’t know about you, but I really struggle to...
by Liane Davey | Mar 27, 2016 | About teams, Bad Leaders, Be a better team leader, Communication, Connect, Horror Stories, How to fix teams, Right Words to Say
It can be extremely frustrating when one of your teammates isn’t cooperating. But at least when it’s one of your own teammates that’s behaving badly, you have some recourse with your mutual manager. With constructive and mature feedback, you’re likely to make progress...
by Liane Davey | Feb 28, 2016 | Be a better team leader, Contribute, Feedback, Right Words to Say
Most of the companies I have worked with have, at some point, stuck the word “one” in front of their company name and heralded it as a great new era. “We are now One Acme!” [Cue the trumpets and unfurl the banners.] To be fair, these efforts were in reaction to...
by Liane Davey | Feb 3, 2016 | Be a better team member, Communication, Conflict, Connect, How to fix teams, Personal Effectiveness, Right Words to Say
I’m in the midst of an exciting new project building the very first 3COze product. We’ve decided that of all the tools to help teams become more effective, the ones that are most needed are the tools to help teams have more productive conflict. Our conflict toolkit is...
by Liane Davey | Jan 31, 2016 | About teams, Be a better team member, Contribute, Exercises, How to fix teams, Right Words to Say
I recently debuted a new speech about building high performance teams. My ideas about how to build a high performance team (and whether teams even have the courage that high performance requires) are getting crisper…and edgier. I’ll share some of those ideas on the...
