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 Amanda Baines | Jan 18, 2015 | Leadership
Most people naturally prefer one leadership style, though in fact there are many. You could choose anything from ‘command and control’ through to full delegation: Telling Selling Supporting Delegating Telling is traditional ‘command and...
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 | Jan 5, 2015 | Organisation Culture
There are two groups of factors to take into account if you want to make your organisation as effective as possible and produce outstanding results quickly, efficiently and permanently. These are the ‘internal’ and the ’external’. ‘Internal’ factors include people’s...
