Blue Oyster is pleased to announce that it is now utilizing these tools in much of its individual development, coaching and team excellence work.

As our work pace speeds up and global competition puts extra pressure on most employees from the Board downwards, the requirement for staff to be stress tolerant, self-motivated and creative is increasing. It is more crucial than ever to ensure that your employees have the necessary skills and attitude to perform their jobs well. Technical skills, experience and intellect are important parts of the ‘high performance’ equation, but so too is
Emotional Intelligence.

Individual and Team Effectiveness are two sets of products for assessing and developing Emotional Intelligence in teams and individuals, based on extensive work by JCA (Occupational Psychologists) Ltd and the Centre for Applied Emotional Intelligence (CAEI). They include IE and TE questionnaires and a range of feedback and development guides. These instruments can be administered on-line or by paper and pencil to produce
a range of interpretive reports.

The Individual Effectiveness questionnaire measures 16 scales ranging from underpinning attitudes, such as self-regard, to relationship skills such as conflict handling. It is these different levels of analysis and their interaction that makes this instrument so powerful.

The Team Effectiveness questionnaire consists of 7 scales and focuses on diagnosing team problems. Group EI is not just about having a group of emotionally Intelligent Individuals, it requires the whole group sharing qualities such as trust, identity, and purpose to establish a co-operative
and collaborative team culture.

Round Britain & Ireland Challenge, 2005

Starting on the 15th of October, 8 identical, fully crewed yachts
will set out from the Solent to race clockwise, non-stop around
Britain & Ireland, and this at one of the windiest times of the year!
Taking part in this challenge will be Iain Rollitt-James, who is the
Managing Director of Blue Oyster. Iain is also planning to raise
a substantial amount of money for the Bobby Moore fund (part of
Cancer Research UK), which specializes in research into bowel
cancer. Iain is paying for his own berth and so all money raised
will go directly to the charity. Bowel cancer is one of the biggest
killers in the UK, but if detected and treated early enough, can
result in complete cure.

To donate to this very worthy cause please either call us on 01432-830708 or better still, donate directly online at: www.justgiving.co.uk/iainschallenge Don't forget to giftaid it! Thank you for your support and generosity

This race takes approximately 2 weeks to complete and is no walk in the park. It's something worth reflecting on when considering how much to donate.