by Liane Davey | Oct 6, 2019 | About teams, Be a better team member, Communication, Conflict, Contribute, How to fix teams, Right Words to Say
Do you appreciate your colleagues’ superpowers? Can you even spot them? It’s easy to get so wrapped up in your own perspective that you fail to recognize that great organizations are more like the Avengers than old school, single hero Superman. Today, I’d love you to...
by Liane Davey | Sep 8, 2019 | Be a better team leader, Conflict, Contribute, How to fix teams, Right Words to Say, Strategy & Planning
I am an optimist. Actually, I’m even further out the continuum—I’m a dreamer, a believer, a blue skyer. Teams benefit from a healthy dose of optimism, but let’s face it, optimism can be vacuous. What a great team needs is a few skeptics. You just have to be careful...
by Liane Davey | Jul 8, 2019 | Communication, Conflict, Right Words to Say
I teach strategies for productive conflict. I get specific and provide the right words to use because I know that having the actual words at hand is what makes the difference between thinking about saying something important but uncomfortable and actually saying it....
by Liane Davey | Jun 23, 2019 | Communication, Connect, Horror Stories, Right Words to Say
My friend Jane suggested the topic for today’s post. She wants to know how to handle the over-sharer. Great question; and one that gave me some pause to think. There are so many different forms of over-sharing and each has its own formula for how you should react....
by Liane Davey | Jun 9, 2019 | Be a better team member, Communication, Conflict, Contribute, How to fix teams, Right Words to Say
Dumb ideas; you hear them from your colleagues all the time, right? It’s so hard not to roll your eyes and launch into a litany of reasons why they’ll never work. But that tends to start a fight. Recently, I wrote a post that offered an alternative to contradicting,...
by Liane Davey | May 26, 2019 | Be a better team member, Communication, Conflict, Right Words to Say
Have you ever been in an argument and wondered, how the heck did this fight get started? If you could rewind the tape, I bet you’d find it all started innocently with someone trying to resolve an issue. The problem is that they were feeling invested in the issue and...
