by Kate Mercer | Jul 3, 2015 | Organisation Culture, Team Development
Ask anyone at a social gathering, “so, what do you do?” Most people reply with a job role or title. If pressed, they will list the things they are responsible for or the activities they carry out in their role. What you never hear is a short, complete list of the...
by Kate Mercer | Jun 29, 2015 | Leadership, Organisation Culture
Have you noticed that some of the great stuff you want to achieve in business is not easily measured? It’s easy to measure quantities: of money, production, sales calls, numbers of time the phone rings before it’s answered, and because it’s easier, businesses tend to...
by Kate Mercer | Jun 8, 2015 | Team Development
Following on from our post last week on authentic leadership, here’s a great guest blog by Brian Bacon from Brian Bacon on Leadership: Anne Frank chronicled in her diary in 1943, “The good news is that you really don’t know how great you can be, how...
by Kate Mercer | May 20, 2015 | Leadership
In my last blog post, I looked at Melanie Greene’s thoughts on what being an Away From or a Towards person meant. Here Melanie explores what these traits can mean for your work, your business, your staff, your customers. Towards People are motivated by results and...
by Kate Mercer | Mar 6, 2015 | Organisation Culture
How much time is wasted around your office coffee machine by people talking about your culture and its impact on performance? Some typical comments might be: ‘We’re not delivering the results we should’ ‘There’s no leadership around...