Sink or swim: What to do when the millennials take over
Fact: Over 50% of the work place are now millennials (under early 30s) Fact: The average age of retirement in …
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Recognising signs: Stress and the Insights Discovery colour energies
Work is overwhelmingly the most common cause of stress for British employees, with 59% experiencing it[1]. The demands of the …
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TED Talk: Shawn Achor – The happy secret to better work
We believe we should work hard in order to be happy, but could we be thinking about things backwards? In …
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Happiness: The Upside of Feeling Down and the Value of Opposites
As draining and painful as the experiencing of ‘negative’ emotions can be, they serve a huge purpose that shouldn’t go …
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Using Insights Discovery to bridge communication gaps
Leadership and teamwork. They aren’t two different issues, they are two veins of one interconnected system which supports the profitability …
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How does understanding behaviour enhance creativity?
Empathetic, emotionally intelligent work environments have a good track record of increasing creativity, improving problem solving and raising productivity.” Whilst …
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TED Talk: Steven Johnson – Where good ideas come from
In his studies Steven Johnson has explored creativity in search of shared patterns that might clue us into the environment …
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TED Talk: Matt Cutts: Try something new for 30 days
A short talk but a lovely one. Matt Cutts, a Google engineer, explores his experience of giving new things a …
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Quickread: Goal-setting – how to get things done (through the colours)
In its simplest form, goal-setting is the process of working out what you want and creating a plan to achieve …
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Quickread: Employee Wellness
Employee happiness and emotional health are never first on the agenda in a planning meeting, but they should be. The …
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TED Talk: Matthieu Ricard – The Habits of Happiness
Biochemist turned buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard explores the concept of happiness – how it’s definition differs, how we all have …
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Quickread: Steps to Appreciating your Opposite – The Difference a Profile Makes
In today’s complex and diverse organisations, it is rare that you will find two people who see the world in …
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‘Transform your team in THREE DAYS’ – TCW Open Workshop October 2017
Last month The Colour Works piloted the first in a series of introductory masterclasses. The purpose of these sessions is …
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TED Talk Quickwatch: Derek Sivers – Weird, or just different?
Derek Sivers, who also did the brilliant’How to start a movement’ , here presents us with the fact that there …
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Quickread: 9 Attributes of an Agile Leader
Leaders can no longer rely on the ways of the past. Command and control belongs to the dinosaurs, and tomorrow’s …
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Why is resilience important?
Actionforhappiness tells us it’s one of the 10 keys to personal happiness, but what exactly is it? Resilience is an …
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Why it doesn’t end at Discovery
Why it doesn’t end at Discovery The biggest concern we hear from clients after that eye-opening initial workshop is the …
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The Coaching Code Matrix Parody
This Matrix Parody video is a useful way of introducing coaching – it helps people reflect on both the behaviours …
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