by Liane Davey | May 3, 2020 | About teams, Change, Strategy & Planning, Success Stories, Team Effectiveness
Last week, I facilitated a business strategy session online using MS Teams. This is the kind of session that most leaders would traditionally have said needed to be in person. It’s amazing how your definition of need changes when your options are constrained. We did...
by Liane Davey | Mar 22, 2020 | Headline News, Personal Effectiveness, Success Stories
Hey there. I wasn’t sure if I could, or would, or should write a post today. The stakes right now are higher than they’ve been in my lifetime. The issues are so much bigger than team dysfunction. Who the heck am I to say anything about life in a Covid-19 pandemic? And...
by Liane Davey | Mar 1, 2020 | Horror Stories, Personal Effectiveness, Success Stories, Uncategorized
Ladies and gentlemen, we need to talk. Gentlemen, hold on for just one second… Ladies, have you ever been accused of being hard to relate to? Does your intelligence, your confidence, your tenacity, or your resilience turn people off? Answer honestly… there’s nobody...
by Liane Davey | Jun 24, 2018 | Be a better team leader, Headline News, Success Stories
It’s World Cup time again. This global football-fest is always a great source of teamwork stories, including that moment in 2010 when I got called as an “expert” to comment when France’s players refused to practice in protest of one of the star players being expelled....
by Liane Davey | Oct 1, 2017 | Be a better team leader, Communication, Contribute, Exercises, How to fix teams, Meetings, Success Stories
I was facilitating an executive team meeting last week. Although the meeting had been scheduled as a full day, four people started the day saying that they needed to leave early. (I’ll save my rant about that for later). Four of the team members needed to be gone by...
by Liane Davey | Jan 22, 2017 | About teams, Be a better team leader, Success Stories
I spent a day last week with one of the teams that reminds me of the value of a great team. It’s a team that’s invested a couple of years in building a strong team dynamic to accomplish a challenging turnaround. At one point in the day, I started to say to someone...
