Chester Elton Books

Anxiety at Work: 8 Strategies to Help Teams Build Resilience, Handle Uncertainty, and Get Stuff Done

All In: How the Best Managers Create a Culture of Belief and Drive Big Results

The Orange Revolution: How One Great Team Can Transform an Entire Organization

The Daily Carrot Principle: 365 Ways to Enhance Your Career and Life

The Invisible Employee: Using Carrots to See the Hidden Potential in Everyone

The Carrot Principle: How the Best Managers Use Recognition to Engage Their Employees, Retain Talent, and Drive Performance

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Chester Elton Speaker Videos

• Managing With Carrots | Chester Elton | TEDxFordhamUniversity ...

  

  Dec 2, 2016 ... The "Apostle of Appreciation," Chester Elton, details the importance of appreciation and recognition in a workplace.
  Chester Elton Keynote Speech for Tesco

  

  Nov 18, 2016 ... Chester Elton Keynote Speech for Tesco @ NEC, Genting Arena Birmingham, UK.
• The Carrot Principle | Chester Elton

  

  Aug 5, 2014 ... Chester Elton's keynote at the 2014 VitalSmarts REACH conference.

Chester Elton Speaking Topics

• The Carrot Principle: Engaging Employees through Recognition

  A *New York Times, USA Today* and *Wall Street Journal* best seller, *The Carrot Principle* has become the preeminent source on employee engagement and recognition. Based on his runaway best seller, *The Carrot Principle* workshop or keynote reveals the ground breaking results of one of the most in-depth management studies ever undertaken, showing definitively that the central characteristic of the most successful managers is that they provide their employees with frequent and effective recognition. This breakthrough study of 200,000 people over ten years found dramatically greater business results when managers offered constructive praise and meaningful rewards in ways that powerfully motivated employees to excel. Drawing on case studies from leading companies including Disney, KPMG and The Pepsi Bottling Group, the best-selling author shows how the transformative power of purpose-based recognition produces astonishing increases in operating results. Elton shows how great managers lead with carrots, not sticks and in doing so achieve higher:
  • Productivity
  • Engagement
  • Retention
  • Customer Satisfaction This exceptional presentation introduces the simple steps to becoming a Carrot Principle manager and to building a recognition culture in your organization; it offers a wealth of specific examples, drawn from real-life cases, of ways to do recognition right. Following these simple steps will make you a high-performance leader and take your team to a new level of achievement.

• The Invisible Employee: Unleashing Hidden Potential

  There is a crisis in business todaythe potential of your employees and new hires is being trapped, squashed or just overlooked. Only one keynote speaker is unraveling the truthripping through *Fortune 500* companies with a bag full of keys to unlock the power of your people. Based on the *New York Times* best-selling book, *The Invisible Employee*, Chester Elton can unlock the hidden potential of your workforce. Elton enlightens, inspires and energizes audiences. He shares why many employees today feel over-looked, ignored and completely unappreciated. And he exposes why employees respond to those feelings with negative reactionsdoing just enough to get by, grumbling about work and passing toxic attitudes on to other team members. After all, why bother shining when no one notices your achievements? The Invisible Employee keynote leverages hard-won wisdom, with Eltons renowned blazing energy, humor and real life examples. Across the globe and into the most recognized companies, Chester Elton is helping managers combat one of the most common negative forces in businesssmart employees hiding from their potential and never doing more than is asked. Elton shows managers how to:
  • Engage or re-ignite an employees passion for work
  • Stimulate a new-hires onboarding experience
  • Recognize employees to accelerate performance
  • Minimize attrition and increase retention
  • Build a culture based on trust and appreciation
  • Setting clear goals and seeing the right behaviors The Invisible Employee Keynote is inspiring managers worldwide to create organizations jam-packed with productive employees who feel noticed, valued and appreciated.

• All In: Creating a Culture of Buy-In and Belief

  How the best managers create a CULTURE of belief and drive real results The authors of the New York Times bestsellers The Carrot Principle and The Orange Revolution present groundbreaking new findings — today’s high-performance organizations have a distinctive kind of culture that leads to astonishing results. Teaming up with research giant Towers Watson, authors Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton present an unprecedented 300,000-person study conducted in the worst of the recession. Based on this breakthrough research and their extensive consulting experience with a who’s-who of successful companies, they present a simple seven-step roadmap that all managers can follow to create a high-achieving culture in their own teams. With the most current data available on culture, the authors offer specific how-tos for each step, and tell fascinating stories of leaders in action that vividly depict just how these powerful methods can be implemented. Audiences will learn: The 3 research-based characteristics of the world’s most profitable, productive organizational and team cultures The 7 steps today’s most successful managers use to generate buy-in How managers at any level can build a productive workgroup culture of their own where employees commit to the culture and give that extra push of effort

• The Orange Revolution: How One Great Team Can Change an Organization

  New York Times, USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling authors Chester Elton and Adrian Gostick have once again transformed the corporate playing field with The Orange Revolution, recognized worldwide as the premiere book on how breakthrough teams and teamwork revolutionize a company, a community, and the world. The Orange Revolution Keynote highlights the key traits found inside the world’s most stellar teams. Chester illustrates the steps these teams took to conquer barriers, exceed expectations, and overcome mediocrity through brilliant collaboration. This presentation reveals the synergy that exists among teams in the world’s most respected and innovative organizations— and how to tap into that power within any group of individuals. Drawing on startling research and case studies from leading teams at Zappos, Pepsi Bottling Company, The Blue Angels, Texas Roadhouse, Apple, and numerous others, the Orange Revolution Keynote shows how true teamwork produces results that change the world and can immediately increase:
  • Productivity
  • Engagement
  • Loyalty
  • Innovation
  • Bottom-line Results This must-see presentation introduces the simple steps to inspiring an Orange Revolution in your organization— through easy, prescriptive, outcome-based applications that can be implemented today.

• How the Best Managers Create a Culture of Belief & Drive Big Results

  In his New York Times bestsellers The Carrot Principle and The Orange Revolution, Elton reveals groundbreaking new findings: today's high-performance organizations have a distinctive kind of culture that leads to astonishing results. Based on breakthrough research and extensive consulting experience with the "who's who" of successful companies, Elton presents a simple seven-step roadmap that all managers can follow to create a high-achieving culture within their own teams. With the most current data available on corporate culture, Elton offers specific how-tos for each of the seven steps. He will relate fascinating stories of leaders in action that vividly depict just how these powerful methods can be implemented.

Chester Elton News

• Top 30 Leadership Gurus

• NY Times best selling author, Chester Elton « CBS Detroit

  Called the “apostle of appreciation,” by the Globe and Mail, Canada's largest newspaper, and “creative and refreshing” by the New York Times, Chester Elton is ...