by Liane Davey | Jun 9, 2019 | Be a better team member, Communicate, 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 | Jun 2, 2019 | About teams, Be a better team member, conflict, Horror Stories, How to fix teams
New research* suggests that if you’re willing to dish out negative behaviors at work, you’d better be prepared to take them. A meta-analysis of almost 100,000 people over 200 studies shows that negative behaviors (ranging from avoidance, to incivility, all the way up...
by Liane Davey | May 26, 2019 | Be a better team member, Communicate, 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...
by Liane Davey | May 19, 2019 | Contribute, Exercises, Horror Stories, Personal Development
You’re worrying about too much at work, aren’t you? How do I know? Because the vast majority of people I meet are in the same boat. I see it in their eyes. I spot it in their reactions when they’re asked to take on even the most trivial new task. I feel their stress...
by Liane Davey | May 12, 2019 | Be a better team member, Communicate, How to fix teams
I was giving one of my favorite keynote speeches last week. It’s called, “Change Has Changed,” and it’s about the different ways you need to manage people when change is constant. I spend time at the end talking about the importance of resilience and one of the topics...
