by Liane Davey | Feb 7, 2021 | Be a better team leader, Communicate, Uncategorized, Virtual Teams
(I’ve gone into some detail in this post and therefore it’s long. If you want this in a quicker, click-through version. You can check it out here. Please share if you find it useful.) It’s time for a reset on our approach to managing remote teams. We’ve been...
by Liane Davey | Jan 31, 2021 | Be a better team leader, Communicate, Right Words to Say
Back with another great question from an audience member at a keynote. The specific question was, “How do I talk my high performers off the ledge?” On the Ledge [I know the questioner meant this as a metaphor. This particular metaphor provides an important opportunity...
by Liane Davey | Jan 24, 2021 | Be a better team leader, Communicate, Connect, How to fix teams, Right Words to Say
You know that for me, the best part of giving a keynote is the Q&A session. I already know all the stuff in the speech, but the questions are the entrée into what people are thinking, how they’re feeling, which of my suggestions comes easily and which needs more...
by Liane Davey | Jan 17, 2021 | Bad Leaders, Be a better team leader, Exercises, Strategy & Planning
Does your organization have a strategy? Do you know what it is? Does everyone feel a sense of ownership over executing that strategy? In far too many organizations, the answer to those questions is “no.” It makes me so sad how few people have experienced the power of...
by Liane Davey | Nov 29, 2020 | About teams, Be a better team leader, Be a better team member, Change, Horror Stories, How to fix teams
When introducing change to your team, it’s completely normal that you’ll face some unpredictable reactions. Heck, it’s completely normal that you’ll HAVE some unpredictable reactions. Volatility in the face of change makes a whole lot of sense when you think about how...
by Liane Davey | Nov 22, 2020 | Be a better team leader, Right Words to Say
I was working with one of my favorite teams last week. We were talking about productive conflict (surprise, surprise) and we stumbled onto a really interesting discussion about what to do when you’re leading a cross-functional project and someone who doesn’t report to...
