by Liane Davey | Oct 13, 2019 | About teams, Be a better team member, Communicate, conflict, Horror Stories, Right Words to Say
I’m on the road this month, giving the speech that goes with my book The Good Fight. Audiences have been amazingly open to my message about the importance of productive conflict. The best part of giving the speech for me is hearing the wonderful questions people ask...
by Liane Davey | Oct 6, 2019 | About teams, Be a better team member, Communicate, conflict, Contribute, How to fix teams, Right Words to Say
Do you appreciate your colleagues’ superpowers? Can you even spot them? It’s easy to get so wrapped up in your own perspective that you fail to recognize that great organizations are more like the Avengers than old school, single hero Superman. Today, I’d love you to...
by Liane Davey | Sep 29, 2019 | Be a better team leader, Be a better team member, Communicate, Exercises, How to fix teams, Right Words to Say
I’m constantly encouraging teams to wade into the really difficult, contentious, emotional discussions that they would otherwise try to avoid. The problem is that you might lack the vocabulary to get to the other side of one of these emotional discussions or to move...
by Liane Davey | Sep 22, 2019 | Be a better team leader, Communicate, Strategy & Planning
“We have too many meetings and getting to a decision takes too long.” Seldom does a week go by without me hearing these complaints. Yet, when I dig into the root causes of those delays, many of them are self-inflicted by decision makers who empower stakeholders where...
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....
