Colin D. Ellis

Colin D. Ellis is a five-time best-selling author and culture consultant. His latest book Detox Your Culture was released at the end of August. Colin has worked with almost 100 different cultures in almost 20 countries with clients ranging from Red Bull in Austria, to the US House of Representatives, the Dutch Olympic Team and IAG Insurance in Australia.

Colin D. Ellis is an Executive Council member at the CEOWORLD magazine. You can follow him on LinkedIn, for more information, visit the author’s website CLICK HERE.

CEO Opinions

3 reasons why toxic cultures make it into the media – and how to avoid them

CEO OpinionsColin D. Ellis

Toxic culture is the biggest risk to organisation results and reputation. It not only undermines results - unhappy people are significantly less productive, than happy ones - it also leads to increased workforce mental health issues and even the suicide of employees. Nine News is the latest in a long...

CEO Insider

How to pull down the barriers between generations at work

CEO InsiderColin D. Ellis

‘Every generation blames the one before it and all of their frustrations come beating on your door.’ So said Generation-X social commentators of the 1980s, Mike and The Mechanics. Although they also said ‘Take the children and yourself and hide out in the cellar’... so maybe you should take their...

Success and Leadership

5 examples of bad strategy that causes toxic cultures

Success and LeadershipColin D. Ellis

It’s easy to state in a strategy document that well-being is a priority, in the hope of providing fulfillment to every individual. And quite another to do it in practice. Many companies struggle with the development of strategy and associated approval process. Indeed, the strategy itself can become the source...

CEO Insider Success and Leadership

Hybrid Work is Really About Trust

CEO Insider Success and LeadershipColin D. Ellis

More than anything else, successful hybrid working is about trust. CEOs trusting managers, managers trusting employees and employees trusting themselves and their teammates to do the right thing, regardless of where they are based, to achieve the outcomes they hope to achieve. Yet, when it comes to the decisions that...

Executive Insider

5 Things CEOs need to do differently in a Hybrid World

Executive InsiderColin D. Ellis

Leadership constantly changes. It doesn’t stand still. You can’t define it in 2021 and expect it to be the same in 2022. Global and local events, as well as organisational shifts, require leaders to continually look at their behavioural responses. And of course, the pandemic is no different. In times...

CEO Insider

How senior managers can set the tone in a hybrid world

CEO InsiderColin D. Ellis

A hybrid working model won’t be a ‘nice to have’ for organisations once we start to live in a COVID-normal world, it will be an expectation that employees have of senior managers. The pandemic has proven – once and for all – that the technology to enable a workforce in...

CEO Advisory

Why remote work doesn’t work for teams long term

CEO AdvisoryColin D. Ellis

The removal of requirements to work from home forces business leaders into a decision of how they bring office working back into people’s lives. Whilst there have been benefits of remote working during the pandemic, it doesn’t work as a permanent solution for most teams long-term and many have already...

CEO Insights

Letting everyone work from home forever isn’t good for teamwork

CEO InsightsColin D. Ellis

One of the positive things to come out of the COVID-19 crisis is the fact that organisations around the world have finally removed the barriers to their staff being able to work from home. There were never any technological barriers to people doing so, most of the issues centred around...

Executive Insider

Millennials Value Culture As Much As Money

Executive InsiderColin D. Ellis

Every year consulting firm Deloitte produces a survey that captures the current zeitgeist with regards to working culture. Called the Deloitte Millennial Survey it asks a range of questions with regards to the thoughts and feelings that the latest generation of workers have towards business. I’ve been reading the reports...

CEO Advisory

How to build an aspirational vision for your organisation

CEO AdvisoryColin D. Ellis

‘A vision helps to inspire and capture aspiration and assist people in overcoming the inherent incohesion associated in moving away from the familiar.’ So wrote Benjamin and Rosamund Stone Zander in their excellent book The Art of Possibility. Yet, most organisations vision statements do the exact opposite, leaving staff bereft...

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CEOWORLD magazine

Colin D. Ellis

3 reasons why toxic cultures make it into the media – and how to avoid them

How to pull down the barriers between generations at work

5 examples of bad strategy that causes toxic cultures

Hybrid Work is Really About Trust

5 Things CEOs need to do differently in a Hybrid World

How senior managers can set the tone in a hybrid world

Why remote work doesn’t work for teams long term

Letting everyone work from home forever isn’t good for teamwork

Millennials Value Culture As Much As Money

How to build an aspirational vision for your organisation

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