by Kate Mercer | Mar 8, 2016 | Organisation Culture, Team Development
Does your heart sink when one of your colleagues mentions the words ‘team-building exercises’? Do you have visions of having to create abstract constructions out of Lego in a crowded room? Here at Leaders Lab we build a strong case for demonstrating that...
by Kate Mercer | Feb 29, 2016 | Organisation Culture
Somehow running a business, or a team within a business of more than about 30 people, can appear to be extremely complex. Of course, we have the option to make it complex, but the secret of success is to keep it simple. The totally transferrable secrets of success...
by Kate Mercer | Feb 25, 2016 | Leadership, Organisation Culture
For the vast majority of people, collaboration is a matter of willingness, not ability. And unless there is a fundamental wish to collaborate, it won’t happen. When senior people in organisations tell their team leaders to work together, it will only happen if ‘they’...
by Kate Mercer | Feb 22, 2016 | Leadership
What do you think of when you hear the word ‘appraisal’? I suspect it will be some version of ‘boring’, ‘meaningless’, ‘irrelevant’, ‘bureaucratic’, ‘time-consuming’ etc. Well, we agree with you. And yet we spend an awful lot of time in our consultancy work...
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...
