In recent years the workplace has changed drastically, with working patterns and employee expectations entering a new era. This presents both challenges and opportunities for those responsible for leading people and driving performance.

Join Kristan Johnstone as he explores opportunities to embrace employee development and engagement as an investment, and not a cost, to actively foster the culture you envisage for your team or business. By doing so you can create an environment where people are engaged, motivated and committed to common goals that will deliver the performance your business needs.

We’ll do this by exploring a few simple statements to get you thinking about your approach to developing your people and teams:

• Culture eats Strategy for breakfast
• Prioritise the person, not the skills
• Leadership training is wasted on managers
• ‘Team Building’ is not what you think it is

This will resonate with anyone responsible for leading teams, be it in a SME or within a larger organisation, and anyone with an interest in employee L&D or engagement.

> Register here!

About Kristan (KJ)

With qualifications and an active interest in both Organisational Management and Sport Sociology & Psychology, KJ has spent 15+ years in project management and consultancy roles within multi-national teams. Having experienced the good and not-so-good of development and leadership training he is of the opinion that it needn’t be rocket science, but you must nail the basics effectively. In 2024 he established Latitude45, an adventure-based training & event agency, working with businesses to develop their people, teams and culture, by taking it out of the boardroom…

> See the Latitude45 website

> Follow KJ on LinkedIn

These Wake Up Call sessions are exclusively for BCI members – register your free place below!

If you’re not yet a member of Bristol Creative Industries and would like to take advantage of this member-only event, you can sign up here. You can also read about the membership perks here.

More about our ‘Wake Up Call’ webinar series

These sessions take place every other Friday morning from 8.30-9am, for the BCI community to share their pearls of wisdom with one another. The half hour webinars will involve a 15 minute presentation followed by a 10 minute facilitated Q&A, with introductions from the BCI team.

Our community is full of such amazing talent so we’re giving members the stage to talk about things that excite them so they can inspire their peers. The sessions will be a mix of expert tips and tricks and case studies – the perfect opportunity to learn something new before the week is out.

Our usual online format is an interactive ‘meeting’ but for this series we’re running webinars so that it’s easy to listen in while prepping for the day ahead or while having your breakfast! Cameras and mics will be off but you can ask your questions through the chat box or submit them beforehand.

Please get in touch with Sian if you’re interested in speaking at a future session.

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About Bristol Creative Industries

Bristol Creative Industries is the membership network that supports the region's creative sector to learn, grow and connect, driven by the common belief that we can achieve more collectively than alone.