by Kate Mercer | Oct 17, 2016 | Organisation Culture
It’s important to keep meetings short and snappy as people begin to switch off after 30 minutes. This guest blog post from Olive Keogh in The Irish Times explains why. “A meeting is an event at which the minutes are kept and the hours are lost.” This pithy...
by Kate Mercer | Oct 13, 2016 | Team Development
In this article we look at the learning gap that exists between ‘fun’ group activities and the reality of becoming a better functioning team in the actual workplace. Who do you call if a pipe is leaking? A plumber, right? You don’t call an electrician. And when he...
by Kate Mercer | Oct 10, 2016 | Leadership
When you rise up an organisation’s ladder, your job changes. You find yourself responsible for your staff’s development as well as company performance. We look at how your mindset needs to shift in order to be successful in this new role, one where being a...
by Kate Mercer | Oct 6, 2016 | Leadership
Although it’s one of the important steps in the planning process, creating an effective strategy is a lot easier than you might think. We show you how the answers to five interlinked questions will help you build one. Let’s look at where strategy sits in the planning...
by Kate Mercer | Oct 3, 2016 | Leadership
Great leadership is not about having all the answers but about asking the right questions. Here we give you six key questions to ask yourself so you can become more effective as a leader. Leadership skills can be learned but you will probably have to rethink your...
by Amanda Baines | Sep 29, 2016 | Leadership
Fight, flight or freeze? This article looks at what you need to know about your brain to get you through a crisis. Faced with a crisis at work do you fight it out, freeze, or run in the opposite direction? If you want to be more in control, you need to understand...
by Kate Mercer | Sep 26, 2016 | Leadership
We don’t believe you can pretend to be what you’re not; this is a fundamental principle when we’re coaching anyone to be a better leader. But recent research suggests you can change the way you feel by altering your body language. Can you really ‘fake it till you make...
by Amanda Baines | Sep 21, 2016 | Leadership
Will the people you work with stab you in the back? If you can’t trust them, it’s your problem not theirs. Check out this article to see how you can deal with people you don’t trust. Are your colleagues lying to you? Do you trust them? We all want to work in a place...
by Kate Mercer | Sep 16, 2016 | Leadership
Integrity is more than honesty. A leader has integrity when there is no gap between intent and behaviour and is the same – inside and out. We show you what integrity in leadership looks like in practice. Integrity is defined as the ‘Adherence to moral and...
by Kate Mercer | Sep 13, 2016 | Leadership
As human beings, we are hard wired to notice and give more focus to negative rather than positive things. Here we give you seven ways of challenging your negative thinking to help boost your performance. Creating high performance always sounds like a good idea. As we...
