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.
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...
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...
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...
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.
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.
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.
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...