High-Five Highlights of the Week
This week, there's a big long list of fantastic colleagues who have truly embodied our four core values. Whether it's passion, quality, agility, or accountability, these individuals are not only meeting the bar, they’re raising it!
Who made the list this time???✋🎉
Passion - "We are committed to the future." 🔥
Antoine Bertinotti - "For organising a super French Sales Meeting, with a good timing given to the brand team to explain Brand strategy, Actions plans, and specific focus on the coming launches NPD 2025."
Teresa Spooner - "Her PASSION to ensure one of the customers urgent NPD-FT requirement is pushed through site as quickly as possible to ensure timely arrival."
Patricia Le Mauff - "For your continuous support and for the super training you did to the brand team on process finance, cogs, budget..."
Rama Chebbi - "Great LB video on the wall - love the energy"
Martyn Symes, Guy Peeke-Vout, Anthony Taylor - "For such a well organized and driven retail tour with Linda! She was both very impressed with the premium presence of our brands in stores and appreciative of the quality of your insights."
Sharifa Jordan - "For great integration into the business and being supportive of the UK. As well as the training courses you introduced."
Sally Marshall - "For being very responsive to the SNZ Shopify migration project team, attending daily stand-ups and supporting my team members by responding quickly to questions."
Tommy Dahl, Daniel Sugrue - "For all your work in bringing the Nuremberg Toy Fair to life for SNAZAROO and reeves. Trade Shows are complex and time consuming. Your dedication to the project from start to finish has been greatly appreciated... helping to set the brands up for success."
Sarwar Zaman - "For his flexibility and willingness to help across the business on often short notice or during timing that is not ideal."
Ceylan Kirim - "A true champion in supporting our WN NPD's... She is an excellent collaborator, a dream to work and her support to her markets is endless."
Carlo Palombo - "For delivering an outstanding activation with Southwest Art Shop!... Your efforts are making a real impact."
Erin Keenan - "Great energy, passion and good ideas in the think tank discussion. You help inspire thinking and bring new views and ideas that are warmly welcome."
Quality - "We strive for excellence." 💎
Natalia Flindall - "Brilliant work on the Snazaroo theme pages - from an SEO perspective and streamlining content creation."
Maria Gottfried - "For consistently delivering top-notch work! Recently, she helped me put together multiple videos for W&N + LQX, each with its own complexities."
Estelle Wang - "For having taken the time to list all the quality improvements done on 3rd party quality topics... your work will surely yield results that will make colart brands shine!”
Jonathan Spight – "Good "state of the company" THM this week! Excellent opportunity to make yourself more visible within the company, democratise the financial narrative and adapt your style and level of tecnicity to a wider audience."
Amani Barakat Akkari – “Amani, bravo pour ton excellente contribution ces dernieres semaines à l'on boarding réussi de Linda. Elle est repartie ravie de ses 2 jours a Londres et a spontanément salué la qualité et précision logistique de son accueil. Merci!”
Stela Ivanova - "For taking the initiative to take me through Vena again. Your mini "tutorial" was very helpful and should mean fewer questions for you...”
TIA Court - "I truly value your commitment to problem solving and your ability to find logical solutions... Your efforts are greatly appreciated! :)”
James Whelan - "For participating in the discussion around the think tank. Your analytical thinking and critical assessment are really strong assets..."
Agility- "Embracing change and driving innovation." ⚡
Rob Haynes - "For being agile in working together on a potential solution for a local costing tool to help quicken up the costing process from site."
Lisa Liu - "Lisa在新品项目管理中积极推进,组织协调各部门合作,探讨多种解决方案,提供成本与品质的最优解,非常尽责" / "Lisa actively promotes new product project management, organizes and coordinates cooperation among various departments, explores various solutions, and provides the optimal solution in terms of cost and quality. She is very responsible!"
Bruno Lebourdais - "Un coup de chapeau bien mérité pour ce 1er mois prometteur dans to nouveau job full ops. Je sens une bonne prise en main exigente des équipes, un opérationnel qui tourne, des interactions qui se renforcent avec tes "pairs" du GLT, et un projet Momentum qui démarre bien."
Accountability - "Building trust through responsibility." 🏅
Martyn Symes - "As a leader you are the best of both worlds: you continue to challenge us to do better and bigger things, yet always provide support and have our backs."
Guy Peeke-Vout - "For your availability and enthusiasm to take some of my team with you in March to visit some of our customers. This exposure will result in much closer alignment, empathy, and motivation to deliver the best we can to our customers."
Jane Beeston - "Your open-minded and high quality design thinking by my side in the past months on the leadership organization evolution.”
Natalia Flindall - "For taking the initiative to find out about scholarships for the IAAP certifications and get awarded one. I'm so impressed by your commitment to these certifications, to our goals as a company, and our commitment to our consumers.”
Sarah Larbiose - "For your commitment investigating and fixing the issue in Finance before the end of the month.”
Joseba Garcia - "Great to see the first installment of LQX in Piera Barcelona. Its critical we make this store the flagship for market, and show that Golden is out and Liquitex is "in".”
Canna Liu - "在Private label 项目中,Canna季节积极沟通并解决很多问题,积极为工厂寻求机会增加订单,极大发挥了主人翁精神,为新产品新项目付出了很多很多。非常棒!" / "In the Private label project, Canna actively communicated and solved many problems, sought opportunities for the factory to increase orders, greatly demonstrated the spirit of ownership, and made a lot of efforts for new products and new projects. Great!"
Congratulations to all! Your hard work and dedication are truly inspiring.
Now, what action can you take today to live our core values and make an impact? 💪✨