by Kate Mercer | Mar 1, 2015 | Organisation Culture, Team Development
How familiar are these situations? Your organisation adopts a new strategy. While paying lip-service to the change, key staff still resist the new direction, complaining and hoping that things will go back to the way they were. A team regards itself as a group of...
by Kate Mercer | Feb 22, 2015 | Team Development
What do you understand by ‘team development’? Here are some of the answers we get when we’re talking to the business managers and directors who are our prospective clients. They say:”Oh we do a lot of team development. We go out for a big meal...
by Kate Mercer | Feb 8, 2015 | Leadership
Many business owners struggle to make the move from doing things themselves to delegating work to their staff, and they get little guidance on how to do it. It’s a difficult transition and there are often a few problems along the way. Whether you’re learning to...
by Kate Mercer | Jan 12, 2015 | Leadership, Organisation Culture, Team Development
In many organisations we visit we see meetings where people arrive late, and unprepared for the topics to be discussed. Often, people openly check their emails on their phones or laptops during meetings, or even answer their mobile and leave the room for a while to...
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...