by Imogen Emms | Oct 10, 2018 | Culture, General, Mental Health at Work, Motivation, Wellbeing
Flexible working practices and mental health. Since 2014 employees in the UK have had the right to request flexible working, once they have been working for their organisation for twenty-six weeks. Flexible working is defined as any working pattern that fits an...
by Imogen Emms | Jul 20, 2018 | General, Leadership, Motivation, Talent, Teamwork
It’s easy to assume that successful leaders and famous innovators owe their success to consistently making the right choices and avoiding failure. However, in reality many famous success stories have had a firm grounding in failure; Henry Ford’s first two companies...
by LesleyA | Jun 15, 2016 | Emotional Intelligence, Intelligence, Motivation, Stress
Last week we blogged about the delicate relationship between EQ (emotional intelligence) and IQ (intelligence quotient) which sometimes gets lost in the general noise generated in the world of business psychology. Whilst it’s true that IQ is your ‘entry...
by LesleyA | Jun 6, 2016 | Emotional Intelligence, Intelligence, Leadership, Motivation, Stress, Teamwork, Training
We ran a little experiment at Cerulean Towers last week – we listened out for how often people used the word ‘stupid’, either about themselves or others. We counted quite a few examples and we also noticed the tally increased significantly when the debate was around...
by LesleyA | Dec 31, 2015 | Culture Change, Goals, Leadership, Motivation, Organisation
What do you want? Take a minute and think about it – what do you really want? All through 2015, we have helped our clients with complicated people and business issues, conflicts and dilemas and each time we have reached a point where there’s a key question to be...
by Imogen | Oct 20, 2015 | Learning Lunch, Motivation, Teamwork, Training
We think that the opposite is true! NOT learning in the workplace is much more scary! It is in our nature to evolve and change as human beings and so it is natural to strive to continually develop our talents and skills and be challenged and stimulated. Research shows...
