Colin D. Ellis

Colin D. Ellis is a culture change expert, and an award-winning author and international speaker. Based in Australia, Colin is the author of four books, including his most recent, Culture Hacks: 26 Ideas to Transform the Way You Work (Major Street $29.95) and Culture Fix: How to Create a Great Place to Work (Wiley, Nov. 4, 2019). Colin D Ellis is an opinion columnist for the CEOWORLD magazine. Follow him on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, or connect on LinkedIn.

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...

Education and Career

Why Culture and Strategy Must Eat Together

Education and CareerColin D. Ellis

Peter Drucker once allegedly said to Mark Fields, then CEO of Ford Motor Company that ‘Culture eats strategy for breakfast.’ It’s a quote that’s used extensively these days to emphasise the importance of how a company operates over the why. Yet – and I’m sure Peter Drucker will be devastated...

CEO Advisory

Transform Company Culture to Optimize Performance

CEO AdvisoryColin D. Ellis

Your organization’s culture permeates everything your organization is and does. If it’s vibrant, it attracts and keeps staff and customers. If it’s stagnant or toxic, it drives them away. Leaders are well aware that their organization’s viability directly relates to its culture. Research shows that a whopping 92 percent of...

Colin D. Ellis

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

Why Culture and Strategy Must Eat Together

Transform Company Culture to Optimize Performance

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