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...
by Kate Mercer | Feb 22, 2015 | Team Development
What do you understand by ‘team development’? Here are some of the answers we get when we’re talking to the business managers and directors who are our prospective clients. They say:”Oh we do a lot of team development. We go out for a big meal...
by Kate Mercer | Jan 12, 2015 | Leadership, Organisation Culture, Team Development
In many organisations we visit we see meetings where people arrive late, and unprepared for the topics to be discussed. Often, people openly check their emails on their phones or laptops during meetings, or even answer their mobile and leave the room for a while to...
by Kate Mercer | Sep 29, 2014 | Team Development
Are you new to leadership? Whether building a new team or taking on an existing one, you want to make it work. We pinpoint six priorities for new team leaders. It’s not an easy job getting people to work together, particularly if one or more of you are new to the...
