by Liane Davey | Oct 24, 2021 | Bad Leaders, Be a better team leader, Contribute, Exercises, Strategy & Planning
How often does your leadership team talk about priorities? What importance do you place on the act of prioritizing work? When you say “prioritize,” what does it mean? Just to go all word-nerd on you for a sec, the term priority (and prioritize) comes from the...
by Liane Davey | Oct 3, 2021 | Be a better team leader, Be a better team member, Contribute, Exercises
Imagine you’re sitting in a typical leadership team meeting (and by a leadership team, I mean you’re a people leader and so is everyone else around the table). It probably doesn’t take long before someone raises an issue. Not something that was on the agenda,...
by Liane Davey | Jun 13, 2021 | Be a better team leader, Contribute, Exercises, How to fix teams, Right Words to Say, Strategy & Planning
Has your team ever faced a vexatious decision that required you to trudge through clashing perspectives to get to a solution everyone could live with? Maybe you found the prospect of this heated discussion so unpleasant that you kept putting it off. Or maybe you waded...
by Liane Davey | Jun 6, 2021 | Contribute, Exercises, How to fix teams, Personal Development, Right Words to Say
Do you believe in the adage, “less is more?” Would you love to have fewer priorities, a shorter to-do list, and more time to focus on the few activities that really make a difference? Then you’ll probably find new research published in Nature as interesting and...
by Liane Davey | Mar 14, 2021 | About teams, Be a better team leader, Communicate, Connect, Exercises, How to fix teams, Virtual Teams
There’s something missing when your team is separated from one another—something intangible. It’s that sense of where people are at, of how they’re doing. Sure, you don’t ever really know what’s going on inside someone’s head, even if you’re sitting six inches away...
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...
