by Liane Davey | Oct 24, 2021 | Bad Leaders, Be a better team leader, Contribute, Exercises, Strategy & Planning
How often does your leadership team talk about priorities? What importance do you place on the act of prioritizing work? When you say “prioritize,” what does it mean? Just to go all word-nerd on you for a sec, the term priority (and prioritize) comes from the...
by Liane Davey | Oct 17, 2021 | About teams, Be a better team member, Contribute, How to fix teams, Strategy & Planning
Since the advent of nuclear weapons, there have been several incidents where false alarms might have caused a cascade to global thermonuclear annihilation. One such episode was triggered by a flock of Canada geese, one by meteor showers, one by a malfunctioning chip,...
by Liane Davey | Oct 10, 2021 | Be a better team leader, Contribute, Strategy & Planning
Do you know the old adage, “a camel is a horse designed by a committee?” That line nails it for me. Imagine you’re sitting in a leadership team meeting. At some point, someone mentions the need for a new way of doing things. It might be a new performance management...
by Liane Davey | Oct 3, 2021 | Be a better team leader, Be a better team member, Contribute, Exercises
Imagine you’re sitting in a typical leadership team meeting (and by a leadership team, I mean you’re a people leader and so is everyone else around the table). It probably doesn’t take long before someone raises an issue. Not something that was on the agenda,...
by Liane Davey | Sep 26, 2021 | Be a better team member, Communicate, Connect
Have you ever had to work with someone you don’t trust? And I don’t just mean work on the same team or see them at the coffee machine. I mean have you ever had to depend on someone you don’t trust to get your work done? Have you been on the hook for something that you...
