Blog - Page 16 of 16 - Strategic Leadership

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.

30 Sep

Transformational Leadership – Moving Beyond Money

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

September saw the 23rd annual World of Learning Conference and Exhibition in Birmingham, UK. Elysian’s own Chris Atkinson spoke here with passion, delivering a talk on his favourite topic, motivating people – beyond money. In case you didn’t have to opportunity to make it to World of Learning, we filmed...