Chris Atkinson Archives - Page 2 of 2

01 Jan

How to Invest in People vs. Processes

In Chris Atkinson, Leadership, Strategic Leadership Authors, Structure & Processes

How to Invest in People vs. Processes A few years ago, a regional utilities client (who had been a client for many years) made a commitment to invest in a new IT infrastructure which would allow for efficient bookings for the field teams and the use of handheld devices...

28 Nov

How to Inspire Engagement – Podcast with Chris Atkinson

In Chris Atkinson, Engagement, Personal Development

Last week Chris Atkinson was interviewed by Brett Gajda for his podcast Where There's Smoke - they discussed inspiration and engagement. The interview includes debate about where people go wrong, our misunderstandings of the topic and three techniques to inspire others.

27 Oct

5 Things You Can Do To Lead Workplace Wellbeing In Your Team

In Chris Atkinson, Team

In the pursuit of productivity targets and results, one of the things that often suffers is people’s work life balance. The irony being that this has a direct impact on the very same targets we are trying to achieve. Employee wellbeing is taken into account in business decisions only...

02 Oct

How Your Business Can Adapt To Millennials

In Business, Chris Atkinson, Leadership

Recently a video by author and speaker Simon Sinek went viral on social media achieving over 78 million views on Facebook alone. The hot topic was about millennials (people born after 1984) in the workplace. The narrative in the media took a very negative tone about what he was...

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...

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.

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...