by Kate Mercer | Jan 26, 2015 | Leadership
Want to ensure that people always leave your office more inspired than when they came in? Then here are six communication skills that will help you to become a better leader: Be more focused on others than yourself You have not communicated well if people have not...
by Kate Mercer | Jan 21, 2015 | Leadership
You’ve got your vision, your passion, and your strategy and plan. So why is it that despite displaying appropriate leadership competencies, you sometimes fail? In practice, there is one factor that distinguishes success and failure in leadership: your...
by Kate Mercer | Jan 14, 2015 | Leadership
As a leader, you wield the influence to improve a team member’s job performance, to change how they think, to even persuade someone to discard a harmful habit. But your communication methods can stall your progress as a leader. Here are nine reasons and ways to...
by Kate Mercer | Jan 11, 2015 | Organisation Culture
During the space race, a group of US senators visited NASA. One asked a man cleaning the floor: ‘So what do you do?’ The man replied: ‘I’m helping to put a man on the moon!’ The cleaner felt himself so involved in the organisation’s vision that he felt inspired and...
by Kate Mercer | Oct 30, 2014 | Organisation Culture
The key to good leadership can be thought of as the creation and keeping alive of a compelling picture of the future state of your organisation. In other words, a ‘Vision’. If, as you read this, your organisation has not provided you with a compelling...
