by Kate Mercer | Feb 9, 2016 | Organisation Culture, Team Development
Does it sometimes feel as if you spend all day in meetings, yet any real work has to be done outside them? Here are four ways to turn this around and make your meetings more productive. The real problem is that your meetings aren’t really snappy or productive...
by Kate Mercer | Jan 28, 2016 | Leadership, Organisation Culture
Are you plagued with people bringing you issues to sort out? Do you find you are interrupted one minute by somebody complaining about their inability to get an answer from some other department or outside agency, the next by somebody bemoaning the inability of other...
by Kate Mercer | Jan 11, 2016 | Organisation Culture, Team Development
Do you sometimes wonder if you are talking to yourself? You give instructions or make requests. People say, ‘yes, I’ll do it’ – and then they don’t. Or they do something totally unexpected and not what you wanted at all. Assuming that most people come to work to do a...
by Amanda Baines | Aug 23, 2015 | Leadership
We’ve discussed before about creating disciplines for becoming ever more authentic and completely yourself. Why then would you ever make a mistake again? Because we all fall short of ideal behaviour, and forget to choose to be great and behave well on a daily...
by Amanda Baines | Aug 12, 2015 | Leadership
The next time you’re juggling options – which friend to see, which house to buy, which career to pursue – consider the action of Xiang Yu, a Chinese general who took his troops across the Yangtze River into enemy territory and performed an experiment in...
