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 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 8, 2015 | Organisation Culture, Team Development
“I’m really tired of all these articles and books telling us what to do to be great leaders. I already know and agree with what they’re saying. I should empower my people, take risks, have a vision, deliver results, be accountable, be service-driven, not ego-driven,...
by Kate Mercer | Mar 23, 2015 | Organisation Culture, Team Development
How often do you hear: “that’s just” or (more likely!) “that’s not the way we do things round here”? Here’s a question for you: how did you come up with the ‘way you do things round here’ – your business...
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...
