by Kate Mercer | Sep 13, 2016 | Leadership
As human beings, we are hard wired to notice and give more focus to negative rather than positive things. Here we give you seven ways of challenging your negative thinking to help boost your performance. Creating high performance always sounds like a good idea. As we...
by Kate Mercer | Sep 6, 2016 | Organisation Culture
Do you get lost in trying to diagnose the problems in your business, so you can find the right solution for your staff and yourself? We can save you the trouble! Here’s how to get help, and four ways to make the best use of your business advisers. Telling the doctor...
by Kate Mercer | Sep 2, 2016 | Leadership, Organisation Culture
In your world of work, ‘hard skills’ are technical procedures related to your core business. Examples include the latest law, rules and regulations in your area of expertise, or industry. Ironically enough, these ‘hard’ skills are typically easy to observe, quantify...
by Kate Mercer | Aug 30, 2016 | Organisation Culture
You can’t “do” culture change to your organisation. Culture arises from the beliefs and underlying assumptions held by the people in the organisation. Trying to change culture by decree or through training programmes won’t affect people’s beliefs. In today’s...
by Kate Mercer | Aug 26, 2016 | Leadership
It’s easy to assume that being a manager means making money and hitting targets – there’s no time for taking care of your staff and spending time with your team. Well we don’t agree – and here are the only four skills you really need… Do you ever question the...