Blog - Page 15 of 16 - Strategic Leadership

10 Jul

What is self-awareness and why should leaders care?

In Leadership, Thor Olafsson

What is self-awareness and why should leaders care? “The point is not to become a leader. The point is to become yourself, and to use yourself completely – all your gifts, skills and energies – to make your vision manifest. You must withhold nothing. You must in sum, become the...

26 Jun

Today’s CFO: Which profile best suits your company?

In CFO, Leadership

Share this article on LinkedIn Share this article on Twitter Share this article on Facebook Email this article Download this article Profiles of today’s CFO show how the role is evolving and raise important questions for boards about talent and leadership development.

02 May

Why should anyone choose you?

In Helga Johanna Oddsdottir, Leadership

In research conducted in 2015, Gallup found that about 50% of more than 7200 adults asked, had left a job because of their manager. Wall Street Journal published an article based on the Gallup research and noted; That supports the old cliché; people don’t leave their jobs, they leave...

12 Apr

How to Motivate People Beyond Money

In Chris Atkinson, Engagement, HR, Leadership, Strategic Leadership Authors

The imperative to make a critical shift forward is written on the walls of our workplaces. Money is not enough, because in a world of increasing change, challenges, competition the litmus test, the NEW currency of success is providing YOUR people, YOUR bread and butter, the foundation of YOUR...

28 Mar

The Heart of Leadership

In Leadership, Thor Olafsson

The Heart of Leadership - At the heart of leadership there is always a person. Someone like you, committed to serving others as a leader: truthful, courageous, purpose driven, humble, strong, fair and compassionate. Someone, who realises that leadership is not about money or status, but rather about positive influence...

23 Mar

Quick Insight: Praise and Recognition

In Chris Atkinson, HR, Leadership, Video

Critical feedback seems like a good way of increasing performance but research is demonstrating that the role of strengths is far more important than we imagined.

21 Mar

Why Leadership Needs Empathy

In Leadership

My manager truly cared about me as a person more than he did about me as an employee. Something I saw in him and in some of the managers I had afterwards was that they really put people first.

13 Mar

Don’t send your employees on training programmes

In Leadership Development, Thor Olafsson, Training

Don’t send your employees on training programmes Coming from a trainer and a coach who has delivered training programmes for the last 17 years, this headline is a strange statement. You could even say it lacks credibility as my colleagues and I have been and plan to continue delivering training...

28 Feb

Quick Insight: Leadership Communication

In Chris Atkinson, Leadership, Video

So much communication from leaders fails completely to achieve its objective. We explore what causes this failure and how to really engage our people with great communication.

14 Feb

Quick Insight: The Role of Vision

In Chris Atkinson, Leadership, Video

Why bother with a vision? Sadly most company visions don’t inspire teams, leaders need to do better with vision to really engage their people. Learn why it is so important then transform your leadership by using vision techniques.