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 | 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 Kate Mercer | Sep 11, 2015 | Leadership
This morning, if you slept well, just a few seconds before waking up, still within your dreams, you had no idea of who you were and who you were going to be today. For some moments just before and just after waking up, you had some blessed time of not being ‘somebody’...
by Kate Mercer | Jun 14, 2015 | Team Development
Though not a fan of war, I was shown this speech recently and was struck by the underlying courage, dignity and respect for humanity shown by the speaker, Lt. Col. Tim Collins, commander of the 1st Battalion of the Royal Irish, as he summed up the task for the British...
by Kate Mercer | Apr 19, 2015 | Leadership
I don’t know who this poem is by, but it makes a very telling point. If you look at ‘how you act and how you live’, how would an observer judge you as a leader? I’d rather watch a leader, than hear one any day.I’d rather have one walk with me, than...
