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 | Apr 28, 2019 | Announcements, Be a better team member, conflict, How to fix teams, Right Words to Say
For today’s post, I’m sharing my new YouTube video. I’m really excited that I’m going to be building out a library of longer-form video content to go deeply into some of the most popular topics from the blog. I hope by switching into the video...
by Liane Davey | Mar 10, 2019 | About teams, Announcements, Be a better team leader, Be a better team member, conflict, Exercises, Right Words to Say
With the launch of my new book, The Good Fight, only a couple of weeks away, I’ve been talking with a lot of people about conflict. The conversation often goes something like, “I’m launching a new book.” “Oh, cool, what’s it about?” “Why your organization needs more...
by Liane Davey | Feb 3, 2019 | About teams, Be a better team leader, Communicate, Exercises, How to fix teams, Right Words to Say
You’d be surprised how many trust issues on teams aren’t actually trust issues. Well, that’s not totally fair. They’ve become trust issues, but they didn’t start with team members backstabbing, demonstrating incompetence, or failing to deliver. A significant...
by Liane Davey | Jan 20, 2019 | Be a better team leader, Communicate, Right Words to Say, Strategy & Planning
I hear clients talking about “failing” all the time. The only problem is that whether they’re telling you that failing is a good or a terrible thing depends who you’re talking to. On the one hand, leaders are trumpeting the need to fail fast, while on the other,...
