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 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 | Jun 20, 2021 | Be a better team leader, Be a better team member, Contribute, Horror Stories, How to fix teams, Strategy & Planning
If you could name the single bad habit that has the most detrimental effect on your team’s decision-making, what would it be? Do you have to ponder it for a moment or did you just shout the answer at your screen? Even if it takes you a few minutes, it’s worth...
by Liane Davey | Jun 13, 2021 | Be a better team leader, Contribute, Exercises, How to fix teams, Right Words to Say, Strategy & Planning
Has your team ever faced a vexatious decision that required you to trudge through clashing perspectives to get to a solution everyone could live with? Maybe you found the prospect of this heated discussion so unpleasant that you kept putting it off. Or maybe you waded...
by Liane Davey | Mar 14, 2021 | About teams, Be a better team leader, Communicate, Connect, Exercises, How to fix teams, Virtual Teams
There’s something missing when your team is separated from one another—something intangible. It’s that sense of where people are at, of how they’re doing. Sure, you don’t ever really know what’s going on inside someone’s head, even if you’re sitting six inches away...
