by Kate Mercer | Jan 11, 2025 | Leadership
Leading a team isn’t always plain sailing. You might catch yourself thinking: “Why don’t they just get on with it?” “I’ve got enough on my plate – why do I have to keep checking up on them?” “Managing them feels like babysitting. When will they take...
by Kate Mercer | Jan 9, 2025 | Leadership
We all know our technical skills – the ones we spent years studying, training for, and refining. These are the qualifications on your CV, the tools of your trade. And then there are social skills – the way you connect, listen, and navigate relationships....
by Kate Mercer | Jan 9, 2025 | Organisation Culture
Is there a disconnect between your company initiatives and team morale? You’ve restructured, spent on branding, defined company values – yet the spark still seems absent. Here are some familiar frustrations: “I’ve restructured the team, but they still aren’t...
by Kate Mercer | Jan 9, 2025 | Leadership
Specialists – engineers, doctors, teachers, architects etc – often find themselves promoted not just for their technical skill but because they’ve become indispensable voices in their field. But what happens when climbing the ladder shifts the job away...
by Kate Mercer | Jan 9, 2025 | Organisation Culture
One of the biggest surprises for employees (and sometimes even managers) in a scaling organisation is how promotions actually work—or rather, how they should work. Too often, people fall into one of two flawed assumptions: “They’re an amazing...
