by Liane Davey | Jan 12, 2020 | Be a better team member, conflict, Contribute, Right Words to Say
Ever since we worked with leaders at Amazon a couple of years ago, Craig and I have shared their leadership principle, “disagree and commit” with all of our clients. It’s one of the most succinct descriptions of productive team conflict you can find. The disagree...
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 8, 2019 | Be a better team leader, conflict, Contribute, How to fix teams, Right Words to Say, Strategy & Planning
I am an optimist. Actually, I’m even further out the continuum—I’m a dreamer, a believer, a blue skyer. Teams benefit from a healthy dose of optimism, but let’s face it, optimism can be vacuous. What a great team needs is a few skeptics. You just have to be careful...
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 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,...
