by Liane Davey | Dec 15, 2019 | Be a better team leader, Contribute, How to fix teams, Strategy & Planning
In my work as a strategy consultant, I get to work with a lot of teams during their decision-making processes. I’m continually surprised by how murky the process can be, particularly when it comes to delineating between the times when conflict, tension, and diversity...
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 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 | Jun 30, 2019 | About teams, Be a better team leader, Be a better team member, Contribute, How to fix teams
As a team advisor, I often hear clients refer to their “first team.” It’s an expression coined by Patrick Lencioni in his books The Five Dysfunctions of a Team and The Advantage. I’ve always wrestled with the idea of a first team and struggled to understand its value....
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,...
