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Four ways to make your meetings more productive

Four ways to make your meetings more productive

by Kate Mercer | Feb 9, 2016 | Organisation Culture, Team Development

Does it sometimes feel as if you spend all day in meetings, yet any real work has to be done outside them? Here are four ways to turn this around and make your meetings more productive. The real problem is that your meetings aren’t really snappy or productive...
How to get buy-in from your colleagues to your chosen provider

How to get buy-in from your colleagues to your chosen provider

by Kate Mercer | Feb 6, 2016 | Organisation Culture

Let’s say you’ve been tasked with finding expert outside help to support you in an important piece of work for which you don’t have the relevant expertise in house. You may need support in developing your team and organisation, from the likes of Leaders Lab maybe. Or...
What to do when you’ve tried everything to motivate your team and run out of ideas

What to do when you’ve tried everything to motivate your team and run out of ideas

by Kate Mercer | Jan 30, 2016 | Leadership, Organisation Culture, Team Development

One of the the most common questions we are asked by clients and potential clients is how to motivate people. When we explore their reasons for asking, it seems that they see ‘motivating people’ as the answer to issues as diverse as: People not doing what they are...
Three hints on how to get people to sort their own problems out

Three hints on how to get people to sort their own problems out

by Kate Mercer | Jan 28, 2016 | Leadership, Organisation Culture

Are you plagued with people bringing you issues to sort out? Do you find you are interrupted one minute by somebody complaining about their inability to get an answer from some other department or outside agency, the next by somebody bemoaning the inability of other...
Three hints on how to get people to sort their own problems out

Don’t buy the medicine before you’ve spoken to the doctor

by Kate Mercer | Jan 22, 2016 | Organisation Culture

Let’s imagine you go to the doctor with a pain all across your lower back and down your left leg. When you go into the doctor, you sit down and say, ‘I know exactly what I need, Doc. I’ve got this pain; if you’ll just do me a prescription for these specific named...
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