by LesleyA | Oct 5, 2015 | Leadership, Motivation, Organisation, Teamwork
Have you ever noticed that a group composed of highly intelligent or talented individuals doesn’t always produce the high results you might expect of such a team? Think about it: Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger individually gave us such...
by LesleyA | Aug 1, 2015 | Motivation, Organisation, Training
There’s no doubt about it: for so many of us, procrastination wreaks havoc in our lives. It’s one of the biggest motivating factors behind the enquiries that we receive about our time management training here at Cerulean, and when you look at the damage...
by LesleyA | Apr 29, 2015 | Culture, General, Leadership, Motivation, Organisation
A few days ago, we posted some of the latest thinking on leadership and we have a few more thoughts to add: Do it, write it! So in other words, don’t just talk about your ideas, turn them into tangible and real action! There are plenty of people who talk the talk, but...
by LesleyA | Apr 29, 2015 | Culture Change, Leadership, Motivation, Organisation
We took a lot of interest lately, at Cerulean, in the declaration from Facebook’s chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, that we should ban the word “bossy” to prevent young girls being deterred from leadership roles. She contends that the...
by LesleyA | Apr 26, 2015 | Leadership, Motivation, Organisation, Teamwork
Here is some great current thinking around how to improve leadership skills and positively influence those around you… Great rather than good leadership means bringing people together, informing and coordinating effort and common purpose, enabling and empowering...
by LesleyA | Feb 26, 2015 | Culture, Motivation, Organisation
So far in February, we have been thinking about love – loving learning and now we’re thinking about how to love your job! Firstly, it is obviously important to be happy in your job or it will be difficult to love it… What we need to think about is attitude and...
