by Kate Mercer | Aug 10, 2015 | Leadership
On the subject of how your age and generation affects your world view, and consequently your relationships in and out of work, here’s a great guest blog from David Shindler, who writes and consults on employability: How do you react when someone says to you ‘you...
by Kate Mercer | Aug 9, 2015 | Leadership
Here’s a guest blog post from my good friend, John Gloster-Smith, on the topic of giving positive feedback: What does it take to praise or appreciate people? Sometimes quite a lot, it seems. Apparently 7 out of 10 UK workers feel that their employers take their...
by Kate Mercer | Aug 7, 2015 | Leadership
A natural consequence of believing leadership myths 1 and 2 – that it requires special qualities, skills, expertise and knowledge to be a leader today – is that there appears to be a shortage of the right kind of people. Andif you believe that leadership...
by Kate Mercer | Aug 5, 2015 | Leadership
In coaching clients on leadership we’ve noticed an early sticking point. Though people give different reasons, there’s a common theme: at this point, they are resisting ‘stepping up’ to leadership. Of course, they don’t accept that it’s resistance; from where they...
by Kate Mercer | Jul 29, 2015 | Leadership
It’s easy to assume that the leaders you admire are effective and successful because of their experience,expertise and knowledge – but this isn’t necessarily so. In everyday life, you draw on two sources of knowledge and information to get through. One source consists...
