by Liane Davey | Jul 14, 2019 | Be a better team leader, Communicate, Contribute, Strategy & Planning
If I could make one word more of a mantra for leadership teams, that word would be “envision.” I define envision as to paint a picture of something that doesn’t yet exist—to imagine or foresee. When your leadership team invests the time to clearly define what is...
by Liane Davey | Jul 8, 2019 | Communicate, conflict, Right Words to Say
I teach strategies for productive conflict. I get specific and provide the right words to use because I know that having the actual words at hand is what makes the difference between thinking about saying something important but uncomfortable and actually saying it....
by Liane Davey | Jun 23, 2019 | Communicate, Connect, Horror Stories, Right Words to Say
My friend Jane suggested the topic for today’s post. She wants to know how to handle the over-sharer. Great question; and one that gave me some pause to think. There are so many different forms of over-sharing and each has its own formula for how you should react....
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 | 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 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...
