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...
by Kate Mercer | Jan 5, 2015 | Organisation Culture
There are two groups of factors to take into account if you want to make your organisation as effective as possible and produce outstanding results quickly, efficiently and permanently. These are the ‘internal’ and the ’external’. ‘Internal’ factors include people’s...
by Kate Mercer | Oct 30, 2014 | Organisation Culture
The key to good leadership can be thought of as the creation and keeping alive of a compelling picture of the future state of your organisation. In other words, a ‘Vision’. If, as you read this, your organisation has not provided you with a compelling...
