by Kate Mercer | Jan 21, 2015 | Leadership
You’ve got your vision, your passion, and your strategy and plan. So why is it that despite displaying appropriate leadership competencies, you sometimes fail? In practice, there is one factor that distinguishes success and failure in leadership: your...
by Kate Mercer | Jan 16, 2015 | Organisation Culture
Today’s post is taken from an article in the The Times this week: “‘Soft skills’ need to be taken much more seriously as factors for business success, says a campaign by employers” (14/01/15). We couldn’t agree more with its message:...
by Kate Mercer | Jan 14, 2015 | Leadership
As a leader, you wield the influence to improve a team member’s job performance, to change how they think, to even persuade someone to discard a harmful habit. But your communication methods can stall your progress as a leader. Here are nine reasons and ways to...
by Kate Mercer | Jan 12, 2015 | Leadership, Organisation Culture, Team Development
In many organisations we visit we see meetings where people arrive late, and unprepared for the topics to be discussed. Often, people openly check their emails on their phones or laptops during meetings, or even answer their mobile and leave the room for a while to...
by Kate Mercer | Jan 11, 2015 | Organisation Culture
During the space race, a group of US senators visited NASA. One asked a man cleaning the floor: ‘So what do you do?’ The man replied: ‘I’m helping to put a man on the moon!’ The cleaner felt himself so involved in the organisation’s vision that he felt inspired and...
