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Kate Mercer - ArticlesKate has a gift for creating working environments that allow you and your organisation to produce great results through authentic communication, real teamwork and personal commitment.
She has been a consultant since 1990, following a 14-year career in line and project management, training and lecturing, and is a talented coach, facilitator and trainer. What are You Like in a Crisis?This article gives an insight into what happens in a crisis to our reactions and ability to think clearly. It suggests some simple strategies to restore equilibrium and 'manage your mind'. How to Make Change StickThere are two clear groups of factors to take into account if you want to make changes stick and produce outstanding results quickly, efficiently and permanently: the 'internal', and the 'external'. And there's a sensitive balance to strike when you consider which to pay attention to at any given time. Working Hard? or Producing Results?Ask anyone at a party or any social gathering "So, what do you do?" Most people reply with a job role or title. When further pressed, they will list for you the things they are responsible for or some of the activities they carry out in their role. What you will never hear is a short and complete list of the results they are accountable for producing. Get Your Team Moving; Get Your Business MovingDo you see team-related issues in your business? They cost hassle and sleepless nights. But have you ever stopped to calculate what they are really costing you? The real cost is a brake on business results which, if not tackled head-on, becomes permanent because it becomes the norm - 'just the way things are round here'. The Psychology of Leadership - When are You 'ready'?The challenge for most of us is to manage the transition from management to leadership from moment to moment, day to day, as the requirements change. We need to learn to be both. To be able to do that, we need to have experienced the difference. This article, by Kate Mercer, explores that difference. Why is Vision Important to Leadership?Welcome to the last in my three-part series on Leadership, which I define as "holding the Vision, causing Partnership, and holding people to Account". Over the last two articles I have explored the areas of Accountability and Partnership. This time I am going to take a look at the key to Leadership: the creation and keeping alive of a compelling picture of the future state of the organisation. In other words, a Vision. What's Partnership Got to Do With Leadership?How would it be if you and everyone else in your team came to work committed to ensuring each other's success? How Can I be a Great Team Leader?The foundation of all Leadership is Accountability, 'the willingness to make commitments and hold oneself to account for them, regardless of the circumstances'. There are two aspects to the definition: your willingness to make binding commitments for yourself, and your relationship with the circumstances that surround you. How Do You Manage the 'unmeasurable'?Quantifiable stuff has to be measured in business, it's true. You'd be failing in your accountability to your bosses, your bankers and your shareholders if you didn't do it. But this alone doesn't tell you that everything you want to happen is happening. What about teamwork, values, customer service, people's attitudes? Do You Have Time to Read This?There's nothing new about the fact that people seem to have less and less time. The more work you do, the more work comes your way. With email, the internet, mobile phones and BlackBerries we're never out of touch with increasing demands for our time. Most approaches for time management focus on techniques to manage activities. What we offer here is a review of your time management from three very different perspectives.
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