by Kate Mercer | Feb 29, 2016 | Organisation Culture
Somehow running a business, or a team within a business of more than about 30 people, can appear to be extremely complex. Of course, we have the option to make it complex, but the secret of success is to keep it simple. The totally transferrable secrets of success...
by Kate Mercer | Feb 25, 2016 | Leadership, Organisation Culture
For the vast majority of people, collaboration is a matter of willingness, not ability. And unless there is a fundamental wish to collaborate, it won’t happen. When senior people in organisations tell their team leaders to work together, it will only happen if ‘they’...
by Amanda Baines | Jan 26, 2016 | Leadership, Organisation Culture
What do you do when one of your best fee earners walks into your office, hands you his resignation and tells you he has accepted a job with your competitor? This happened to a client of ours recently and during the course of their subsequent conversation he offered to...
by Kate Mercer | Nov 19, 2015 | Organisation Culture
“All I seem to do is fire-fight” “I never get round to doing important long-term planning” “Someone is always knocking on my door needing something” “Work seems to be one emergency after another” Do these phrases sound familiar to you? Here’s how we addressed these...
by Amanda Baines | Nov 4, 2015 | Organisation Culture, Team Development
High performing teams did not start out that way. A team in its infancy is little more than a group of people working alongside each other, with a vaguely common purpose. The stages in the cycle of team development are often referred to as forming, storming, norming...
