by Liane Davey | Apr 18, 2021 | Be a better team member, Connect, Contribute, Strategy & Planning
This post is a part of Strategy Month—my 30-day LinkedIn series aimed at bringing strategy down from its lofty perch and providing the ideas, techniques, and tools to democratize strategy in your team or organization. The first week was Strategy Creation week, with...
by Liane Davey | Mar 28, 2021 | Be a better team member, Communicate, Personal Development
“Don’t interrupt.” It’s right up there with “don’t talk with your mouth open,” “don’t talk about sex, politics, or religion,” and “don’t overshare” in the pantheon of rules for polite conversation. But around here, we like to question what we were taught and take the...
by Liane Davey | Mar 21, 2021 | About teams, Be a better team member, Connect, How to fix teams, Right Words to Say
I was giving a speech to the leaders of a large teaching hospital. We were talking about conflict and difficult relationships when one of the directors of an in-patient unit shared her frustration with one of the leaders from the emergency department. “She just calls...
by Liane Davey | Mar 7, 2021 | Be a better team member, Communicate, Connect, How to fix teams, Personal Development
If there were one skill you could improve to become a better communicator, to be liked more and respected way more, to accomplish more, and to waste a whole lot less time, would you be willing to invest in it? ‘Cause I can tell you what it is—it’s listening. I spend...
by Liane Davey | Feb 28, 2021 | Be a better team member, Communicate, Contribute, Right Words to Say
How many hours have you spent stuck in mind-numbing meetings where the conversation is so mired in the weeds that you have to amuse yourself by coloring in the holes in the D’s and R’s and O’s on a brochure on your desk? Really…that many? Yikes. (I’m...
by Liane Davey | Jan 10, 2021 | Be a better team member, Change, Personal Development, Strategy & Planning
A few years ago, I made my choice in the raging debate about whether it is best to start a new year with resolutions, intentions, or themes. I chose themes. The most successful year of doing this for me was the (second) year when I chose “joy” as my theme...
