by Kate Mercer | Sep 18, 2015 | Leadership, Organisation Culture, Team Development
Who is ‘they’ in your organisation? ‘Sales’? ‘Marketing’? ‘the staff’?, ‘customers’? Do ‘they’ seem to be making your job harder to do? Do you hear stuff like (or catch yourself saying): “this job would be fine if it wasn’t for ‘them’!”, “nobody tells me anything”,...
by Kate Mercer | Sep 4, 2015 | Organisation Culture
If you can see value in looking at your group, team or organisation as a whole then you might ask, “What are the behaviours I can expect from individuals in a group context?”. At this ‘group-as-a-whole’ level, a group becomes a social system. You can’t explain away...
by Amanda Baines | Aug 30, 2015 | Organisation Culture
These are some critical underlying drivers of sustainable business success: Performance: Underperformance is not tolerated People never make excuses for underperformance We don’t waste time doing irrelevant things The results of the business are in line with its...
by Kate Mercer | Aug 21, 2015 | Organisation Culture
What’s your cholesterol level? Are you the optimum weight for your height? Is your level of fitness adequate for the demands your life makes on your body? But when did you as a business leader last systematically assess the state of health of your organisation? I...
by Amanda Baines | Aug 3, 2015 | Organisation Culture
As a leader, of an informal group, a virtual or actual team, a whole business or a large organisation, how much do you understand about how your ‘organisation’ works? Not its finances, its published structure, its production cycle – what we’re focusing on here...