by Liane Davey | Feb 23, 2020 | About teams, Be a better team member, Communication, Conflict, How to fix teams, Hybrid Work, Personal Effectiveness, Team Effectiveness, Virtual Teams
Do you have virtual teammates? Well, not virtual humans (at least not yet), but real people who work with you in a virtual office rather than a physical one? Working remotely from your colleagues adds some challenges. You don’t have the benefit of face-to-face...
by Liane Davey | Feb 16, 2020 | About teams, Be a better team leader, Be a better team member, Conflict, Exercises, How to fix teams, Team Effectiveness
You’re stuck on a toxic team. You’ve been trying to keep your head down and get along with everyone, but you can’t take it anymore. You’re done with the passive-aggressiveness. You can’t hack the self-righteous finger-pointing. You’ve decided that if no one else is...
by Liane Davey | Dec 8, 2019 | Team Effectiveness, Team Leadership
If you’ve read my book or heard me speak, you probably know my story about how cross-functional teams aren’t like rowers (members aren’t all pulling in the same direction), instead, they are like people trying to spread a tarp over a tent. Each person is pulling on a...
by Liane Davey | Nov 24, 2019 | Team Effectiveness, Team Leadership
Is there a risk in leading from strength? I’m starting to think so. I’ve worked with hundreds of team leaders over the years and almost all of them have been decent, nice, well-meaning people who take their responsibility as leaders seriously. But most of them lead...
by Liane Davey | Sep 29, 2019 | Communication, Emotions, Team Effectiveness
I’m constantly encouraging teams to wade into the really difficult, contentious, emotional discussions that they would otherwise try to avoid. The problem is that you might lack the vocabulary to get to the other side of one of these emotional discussions or to move...
