Blog Archives - Strategic Leadership

17 Aug

Building Winning Capabilities – A Strategic Positioning Opportunity for HR

By Paul Tuck
In Blog, HR, Paul Tuck, Strategic Leadership Authors

Building Winning Capabilities – A Strategic Positioning Opportunity for HR Sometimes people ask me “What is the purpose of HR?”. That’s an easy question – HR is a business function that leads the people aspects of the enterprise to create organisational capability for competitive advantage. However, when it comes...

01 Aug

Organisational Effectiveness – HR’s Opportunity for Strategic Impact

By Paul Tuck
In Blog, HR, Paul Tuck, Strategic Leadership Authors

How does HR make a business impact? By ensuring the organisation is aligned to execute the strategic decisions! When HR takes primary responsibility for leading organisational effectiveness (Lawler, 2014) it creates a means of delivering the strategy and is a source of sizeable and durable competitive advantage(McKinsey 2012).

10 Jul

What is self-awareness and why should leaders care?

By Thor Olafsson
In Blog, 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...

28 Mar

The Heart of Leadership

By Thor Olafsson
In Blog, Leadership, Thor Olafsson

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...

23 Mar

Quick Insight: Praise and Recognition

By Christopher Atkinson
In Chris Atkinson, 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

By Thor Olafsson
In Blog, 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

By Thor Olafsson
In Blog, 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

By Christopher Atkinson
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

By Christopher Atkinson
In Blog, 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

By Christopher Atkinson
In Chris Atkinson, Leadership, 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...