by Kate Mercer | Dec 20, 2016 | Leadership
What is it that makes some people natural leaders, and some not – and can you learn how to lead? Leadership means guiding your life and activities toward achieving your vision. We look at five ways of transforming your vision and purpose in leadership into reality....
by Kate Mercer | Feb 25, 2016 | Leadership, Organisation Culture
For the vast majority of people, collaboration is a matter of willingness, not ability. And unless there is a fundamental wish to collaborate, it won’t happen. When senior people in organisations tell their team leaders to work together, it will only happen if ‘they’...
by Kate Mercer | Sep 11, 2015 | Leadership
This morning, if you slept well, just a few seconds before waking up, still within your dreams, you had no idea of who you were and who you were going to be today. For some moments just before and just after waking up, you had some blessed time of not being ‘somebody’...
by Kate Mercer | Sep 9, 2015 | Leadership
“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.” – Albert Einstein Take a minute to scan your surroundings. Look around you. Pick out an object or person, maybe something or someone you hadn’t noticed before, and focus your attention on it. If you really...
by Kate Mercer | Aug 26, 2015 | Leadership
Following on from our examination on Monday’s post of mindsets and their impact on people’s ability to learn new skills, the usual perception is that people either ‘have the right mindset’ or they don’t, so if they aren’t already effective in...