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...
by Kate Mercer | Oct 3, 2016 | Leadership
Great leadership is not about having all the answers but about asking the right questions. Here we give you six key questions to ask yourself so you can become more effective as a leader. Leadership skills can be learned but you will probably have to rethink your...
by Kate Mercer | Sep 26, 2016 | Leadership
We don’t believe you can pretend to be what you’re not; this is a fundamental principle when we’re coaching anyone to be a better leader. But recent research suggests you can change the way you feel by altering your body language. Can you really ‘fake it till you make...
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...
