by Kate Mercer | Jul 21, 2016 | Leadership
What you don’t see can hurt you and your team. Unexamined beliefs can undermine your best intentions. Here are five questions to help surface some important leadership beliefs and to consider how well your actions reflect them. 1. What do you stand for? What do you...
by Kate Mercer | Jun 6, 2016 | Leadership
How should you speak to people so they really trust you? Here are ten expectations your staff and colleagues have of you as a leader. These are some of the often unspoken things people are concerned about when you speak, change direction or priorities, have a...
by Kate Mercer | May 12, 2016 | Leadership
How ready do you feel to step up and assume leadership? I don’t mean ‘get promotion’ or ‘take a new role’, though these often require leadership. I mean those situations where you are not empowered, have no authority and people don’t seem to be hanging on your every...
by Kate Mercer | Mar 15, 2016 | Leadership
Authentic Leadership is the practice of accomplishment through enablement. It is distinct from the more familiar autocratic leadership which seeks aggrandisement through control. Everyone can be an authentic leader and the first step is to make the choice and the...
by Kate Mercer | Dec 15, 2015 | Leadership
“The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.” – Socrates circa 400 B.C. Some things never change. In this quote, it sounds like Socrates is talking about our...