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 | May 9, 2021 | Bad Leaders, Be a better team member, Horror Stories, How to fix teams, Right Words to Say
Have you ever had to work for someone who changed their opinion more frequently than they changed their socks? It’s an incredibly frustrating situation to deal with. You prepare plans diligently, present them compellingly, and then get ready to execute. But just when...
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 | Feb 28, 2021 | Be a better team member, Communication, Contribute, Meetings, Right Words to Say
How many hours have you spent stuck in mind-numbing meetings where the conversation is so mired in the weeds that you have to amuse yourself by coloring in the holes in the D’s and R’s and O’s on a brochure on your desk? Really…that many? Yikes. (I’m...
by Liane Davey | Feb 21, 2021 | Conflict, Right Words to Say
Are you in a business relationship that’s going in the wrong direction? Or maybe it’s just going in no direction at all. Is it time to move on? I find myself in this situation sometimes and inevitably, I let things go on longer than I should because I don’t have the...
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...
