The two fundamental challenges that leaders face are “too much work” and “not enough time”. These prevent leaders from achieving their true potential to be high performing human centric leaders.

This then holds them back from getting the best from their people, which then reduces the performance of the team and the organisation. Chris solves this problem by showing leaders how they can become high performing and make their teams the same through a proven formula for success. This could put those leaders in the top 20% of performers compared to their peers in other organisations.

Chris is an expert on high performance leadership and has personal experience of both delivering this himself and developing high performing leaders in the military, business, and government. In business he has worked organisations as diverse as BASF, BD Pharmaceutical, UBS and the Chinese Space Programme on this topic.

What will you learn and take away for action?

• What really engages people to give their best? Growing your high performance culture.
• How are we doing on getting high performance in organisations ?
• Which insights from your own experience are your lessons to engage everyone to perform well  ?
• High performance task management & delivery.
• What simple day to day actions can you take to get the best from people?
• Your power as an authentic servant leader – potential effort increases.
• How much hidden impact potential is there you don’t know about you can use?
• How you can use psychology and neuroscience to boost your success rate?
• How could this boost overall organisational performance & other key areas?
• Your action plan to start the journey.

Employee engagement – people giving their best – is the engine of success for any organisation. But the reality is most organisations are significantly underperforming on their potential to get the best from their people because their leaders simply don’t understand employee engagement well enough.

The real challenge is how leaders can increase the number of people in their teams who are engaged and giving their best. To achieve this leaders need to be more human centric by understanding employee engagement in more depth, eg the difference between engaged, not engaged, and disengaged. And then how to move people to become fully engaged. Quite simply most leaders have never been told what they need to know about employee engagement to be successful. Chris gives them that vital information and shows them how to maximise engagement.

Chris has studied employee engagement, written articles on it, featured it in his books, and shown leaders how to improve it for many organisations such as KPMG, Tata Communications and HSBC.

His approach to employee engagement has been proven to be successful, eg a UK house construction company where in two years the engagement score for “I would recommend this as a great place to work for friends or family” went from 40% to 82%.

What will you learn and take away for action?

• What really engages people to give their best? Growing your engagement culture.
• How are we doing on employee engagement?
• Which insights from your own experience are your lessons to engage everyone?
• What do you need to know about employee engagement you probably haven’t been told ? 
• What simple day to day actions can you take to get the best from people?
• Your power as an authentic servant leader – potential effort increases.
• How much hidden impact potential is there you don’t know about you can use?
• How you can use psychology and neuroscience to boost your success as an engaging leader ?
• How could this boost overall organisational performance & other key areas?
• Your action plan to start the journey.

Often even doing “business as usual” presents a challenge for leaders as they are under pressure. Then add the need for change and transformation and this not only adds to their workload but also creates uncertainty.

To be able to deliver business as usual and successfully deliver change in uncertain environments requires leaders to think differently and to have excellent human centric leadership and management skills to get the best from people.

Chris has led work on several successful major transformations in organisations as diverse as London Underground, UBS, UK National Health Service. The transformation at UBS is now a Harvard case study on successful change in uncertainty. Chris was Hon Visiting Professor of Transformational Leadership at Cass Business School 2009-22.   

He shows how to create an environment of certainty amidst the uncertainty which then allows individuals and teams to be more motivated, effective and aligned to what needs to be done.  Within this he develops the practice of Entrepreneurial Leadership which  enables leaders to use change and uncertainty as an opportunity, not a threat, to vision and deliver a better future.

What will you learn and take away for action?

• Why Culture is key to successful change, especially in uncertain times. 
• How are we going on delivering change now ? 
• What are key factors in successful change ?
• Inspiring your team for agility, growth and opportunity to deliver change.
• Using the big picture to inspire and align to strategic imperatives.
• Transforming the emotion of uncertainty from negative to positive.
• Creating your dynamic plan for action.
• Building team flexibility to make it reality.
• Your action plan to start the journey.

AI is now an almost daily discussed topic. Speakers and experts are talking about its potential. Organisations are starting to adopt.

But AI will never work effectively without HI (Human Intelligence)

But most leaders do not understand how AI works, how it compares to our brains, how it’s going to impact their work day to day and what AI will do for them and what it won’t.  

It’s vital they understand this so they can apply AI effectively but also continue to develop their personal capabilities in areas where they need to impact because AI can’t.

Personal authentic leadership interactions is the critical area where AI can’t help in real time so leaders must develop capability quickly.

What will you learn and take away for action?

• How our brains authentic intelligance compares to AI
• Where AI is likely  able to help you as a leader in your day to day work either now or in future. 
• Where AI is unlikely to be able to help. 
• In those areas where AI can’t help what are the key actions that you can take to grow your skills.
• Focus on 4 key areas to Accelerate Success : 
• Slick Task Delivery
• Getting the best from people
• Alignment to strategic objectives.
• Being entrepreneurial to build the future.
• Your simple action plan to start to make it reality when you leave.