On Thursday, I travelled down to Minehead to deliver our Leadership Development Programme for Managers and Team Leaders. The day was focused on enhancing their leadership skills through practical sessions and collaborative activities.

The programme covered essential leadership principles, including agile decision-making and fostering innovation. Participants engaged in interactive discussions and team-building exercises, designed to promote effective communication and connection amongst the teams.

Overall, it was a productive day aimed at empowering our leaders to drive success. A big thank you to everyone involved in making the event a success.

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Today was the DUO DAY, a national initiative to promote inclusion in workplace for people with a handicap (disabled people) : During one day, a person with disability is welcome in a team, to discover a job, and participate to team life.  For the 2nd year, we did the Duo Day and loved it :  Timothee, 18 years old, spent the day discovering the marketing and communication job with Marie and Sophiane from Lefranc Bourgeois Brand Team. His task was to show that FLASHE is a super qualitative paint, easy to use on all kind of surfaces, with matt covering properties. Timothee had to paint a old fashioned wood table with FLASHE paint, to prove theses super product characteristics. He chose 3 colors : BLUE/WHITE/RED to illustrate that Lefranc Bourgeois is a paint made in France !  Then he realised a story that was post on Instagram to share his work. He was very proud, and as a team we were very Happy to welcome him. He brought a lot of happiness, joy, and we love to share our passion with him. This illustrates also the Lefranc Bourgeois values: Joy, Daring, Transmission ! Dare to Paint !  

Special thanks to Sophiane Bahi and Marie Vincent for their passion en engagement ! And Many Thanks to HR to make this possible within COLART ! 

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Last week Colart UK had the pleasure in attending the inaugural ‘The Cass Art Prize’, which took place at the Copeland Gallery in Peckham.  There were 10 highly qualified judges, who had the onerous task of selecting the 12 category winners from over 6500 entries!   The exhibition and event was a first for Cass Art and was developed in memory of the founders, Mark Cass, father who passed away recently and was a key figure in the art and creative world (he also ran the Reeves business at one point).

Our CCO Gail awarded the W&N Watercolour prize to the winner Richard Elliot for his work titled Bundestag Library, Berlin.  And UK General Manager Anthony Taylor awarded the Liquitex Acrylic prize to KV Duong for his work Family Portrait.   

All the artwork was stunning and viewing online does not do it justice..!  It is honestly overwhelming to see the talent that participated in the event, even in the Cass Store Staff, SAA Teaching Art Customer and Student categories.

It was a fantastic evening and great to be a part of it.  As you can see, we took a large contingent from the Colart family to support. Our support and ongoing partnership continues to be the foundations of our relationship and growth agenda… and as you can see, Mark was happy with our involvement.  

A link to the art prize event is below:-

https://www.cassart.co.uk/thecassartprize/

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Concrete decarbonization project in Le Mans :

During our Community hours, we planted 300 trees on a factory’s parcel. We followed the Miyawaki method, which recommends planting very densely 3 trees on average per square metre and combining in each square metre all 3 layers of a natural forest : shrubs, medium-sized trees and large trees. The weather was not ideal but the strong will to do something for the planet was present!

Thank you @coup de pousse for the training and help.

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