Teams are the way we get work done. They are critical to innovation, growth, and risk management in our organizations. But teams are vulnerable to dysfunction from poorly aligned priorities, interpersonal tensions, and unproductive conflict. So why do we throw people together and hope for the best? In this interactive session, you will hear about a revolutionary new approach to teaching employees to team. By starting teams off on the right foot, you can accelerate productivity and reduce the impact of inevitable challenges. You will inoculate your teams against dysfunction.
Learning Objectives:
• New insights into how teams work
• Method for accelerating the productivity of new teams
• Alternatives to superficial team-building approaches
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Liane Davey is the New York Times & USA Today bestselling author of YOU FIRST: Inspire Your Team to Grow Up, Get Along, and Get Stuff Done. Liane combines her expertise in strategy with her deep insight into group dynamics to create powerful changes in top teams.
As a Vice President of Knightsbridge Leadership Solutions and the Lead for Team Effectiveness, she is sought out by executives at some of North America’s leading financial services, consumer goods, high tech, and healthcare organizations.
She works to rehabilitate teams that have become toxic and with healthy teams that want to take their performance to the next level. To meet the needs of a broader audience, Liane has distilled her approach into Knightsbridge’s highly successful Vital Teams™ and Team Inoculation™ programs. These programs allow organizations to certify internal resources to deliver the programs Liane designed.
A dynamic keynote speaker, Liane takes her message about healthy teams to leaders at conferences and management retreats. In addition, she writes blogs for Psychology Today and for www.ChangeYourTeam.com.
Liane has served on the executive of the Canadian Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology and as a evaluator for the Ontario Psychological Association Psychologically Healthy Workplace Awards. She is currently a member of the Board of Trustees of the Psychology Foundation. Liane’s first book, Leadership Solutions (Jossey Bass) co-authored with David Weiss and Vince Molinaro was released in Fall 2007. Follow Liane on Twitter @LianeDavey
She holds an Honours Bachelor of Arts from the University of Western Ontario, and a Master of Applied Science and a Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from the University of Waterloo.
