Strategic Leadership Authors Archives - Page 3 of 4

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...

01 Sep

Is Humility a Leadership Weakness?

In Leadership, Thor Olafsson

Just over 20 years ago I was sat in my office talking to a consultant who was helping me with my first real management job. Midst in our conversation, a coworker of mine entered the office to provide me with information she though was of importance. We exchanged a...

17 Aug

Building Winning Capabilities – A Strategic Positioning Opportunity for HR

In 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

In HR, Paul Tuck, Strategic Leadership Authors, Strategy

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?

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...

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...