by Kate Mercer | Jun 18, 2024 | Leadership, Team Development
Are you plagued by complaints from your team members about others? Do you find they expect you to do something about ‘personality clashes’? Like these..? He’s making my life a misery, looking over my shoulder and meddling in my work She can’t be trusted to do her job...
by Kate Mercer | Mar 5, 2023 | Organisation Culture, Team Development
Many of us discovered during the Covid lockdown something we probably knew all along anyway – face-to-face communication is in many ways ‘better’ than remote communication. While remote communication offers convenience and cost-effectiveness, it cannot match the...
by Amanda Baines | Aug 24, 2022 | Team Development
Many of our clients have concerns about tensions in their team. Sometimes there is open conflict for all to see – there are raised voices, nasty gossip and obvious finger-pointing. But more often, the bad feelings are below the surface, and those unspoken...
by Amanda Baines | Nov 4, 2021 | Team Development
The best teams go with the ‘flow’. How can leaders make sure their teams are set up in this way? A ‘flow state’ is the mental state described in positive psychology, where someone who is performing a particular activity is so fully absorbed, energised, and focused...
by Kate Mercer | Apr 5, 2018 | Organisation Culture, Team Development
Take a look at job descriptions in almost any organisation. You’ll find they’re broad statements of areas of responsibility or lists of activities. Job descriptions like this are concerned with activity rather than output, and fuel the culture of ‘hard work’ and long...
