You First: Inspire Your Team to Grow Up, Get Along, and Get Stuff Done

There are so many ways a team can go wrong. Does your team make decisions so slowly that nothing ever gets done, or does it go too fast and miss critical issues that come back to bite you later? Does your team bicker endlessly or smile and nod while avoiding the tough issues? Too often, team dysfunction leads to abysmal productivity and zero innovation for your organization, as well as misery and wasted time for you. Most team members sit and wait, feeling trapped in a team that just isn't working. You First: Inspire Your Team to Grow Up, Get Along, and Get Stuff Done presents a radical new idea: you can change your team. Author Liane Davey shows how you, from any seat at the table, even without support from your colleagues or your team leader, can transform even a toxic team. It starts with living up to five responsibilities that will change the workings of even the most dysfunctional team.

• Addresses the five most common ways your team can become toxic
• Gives you a diagnostic to see if your team is at risk
• Doles out practical suggestions to deal with the crisis in the short-term
• Instructs you on how to disrupt the patterns that leave you in an endless cycle of dysfunction
• Replaces those patterns with positive interactions and even productive conflict
• Gives you the right words to say to change your team for the better—starting today
• Written by Liane Davey, PhD, a highly sought-after consultant and Principal of Knightsbridge Leadership Solutions and the Vice President of Global Solutions and Team Effectiveness

Designed for front line employees, middle managers, executives, or anyone who works regularly in teams, You First will help you figure out how to make your team happier, healthier, and more productive.

About the Author

Liane Davey, PhD 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 health care 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. She has also built a program to allow organizations to certify their internal resources to deliver these programs.

A dynamic keynote speaker, Liane takes her message about vital teams to conferences and management retreats. In addition, she writes an ongoing blog on Team Effectiveness and is published in trade and academic journals.

Liane is a passionate advocate for mental health and brings her energy to the cause through roles as an evaluator for the Psychologically Healthy Workplace Awards and as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Psychology Foundation. She holds a PhD in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from the University of Waterloo.