by Kate Mercer | Nov 10, 2016 | Leadership
You can learn to harness the ways of being that work for you so you only use them in the leadership situations and circumstances that really call for them. In this article we look at how you can choose who to be. This morning, if you slept well, just a few seconds...
by Kate Mercer | Nov 3, 2016 | Leadership
See the world differently by developing a flexible, resilient mindset that will help you to become a wise leader. We give you six ways of reaching that goal. Leaders tend to look at the world through coloured lenses that change or limit their perspective, which...
by Amanda Baines | Oct 20, 2016 | Leadership
Why you shouldn’t do it in the back of a taxi, over a pint on a Friday, or three weeks later than you said you would. We’re talking here about the importance of one-to-one meetings with your direct reports – check out this article for following the 8 golden rules. Do...
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 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...