by Kate Mercer | Nov 24, 2016 | Organisation Culture
Change is inevitable – for individuals, businesses, communities and nations. Your only choice is how you work with it – it’s as simple as that. We look at how to make change work for you and your business. There are essentially two types of change:...
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 | Jan 18, 2016 | Leadership, Organisation Culture
Do you find yourself complaining that you spend much of your time ‘firefighting’? It’s seems to be one of the diseases of the busy times we live in. But what do we mean by ‘firefighting’ – and if it’s such a problem, why don’t we just stop doing it? Firefighting is...
by Kate Mercer | Nov 9, 2015 | Leadership
Every day in the papers we read about some ‘crisis’ or another. This is particularly true at the moment, with both localised and global security factors affecting many aspects of our lives. To understand how we react to a crisis, it’s useful to understand what goes on...
by Kate Mercer | Oct 20, 2014 | Leadership
For most people, a simple definition of a crisis is “the moment my brain stops functioning.” Your brain evolved in layers. The first, primitive, layer is your “fish brain”, the next, mammalian layer, is the “dog brain”, and finally...
