HRZone relaunch: Registration & user profiles
We’ve put community at the heart of the new HRZone design, so in addition to making the site generally easier to navigate and better looking, we’ve also done a lot of work on making the site as interactive as possible – we want to hear your thoughts on what we write, and we want to […]
HRZone relaunch: A sneak peek at your new homepage
Not only will the new site look great, we’re also filling it with more quality content than ever before It’s all well and good us making HRZone look prettier and easier to use, but our efforts would all be in vain if the content wasn’t up to scratch too. We’ve got lots of exciting plans […]
Employee Engagement Excellence programme to launch in US and UK
Over the next year the very best examples of employee engagement in North America will be recognised and amplified as HRZone launches the Employee Engagement Excellence programme in the United States. The programme combines an awards program and a one-day practical conference and aims to push employee engagement to the forefront of the business agenda. Both […]
It’s time to get grown up about empowerment
Today, no-one I meet suggests we should build organisations where staff are less empowered, where more command and control is needed, and where workers are put to task under clear instruction and without the need to engage them. But despite the obvious appeal of an empowered organisational culture, it seems hard to achieve. In Roffey […]
HRZone relaunch: The transformation begins!
After a long wait, the new HRZone is nearly here! We’ve already shared the reasons behind the redesign in our earlier update, we also got your feedback on what you want to see from the site in our survey, and now we can finally begin the process of switching the site over to its new […]
Employee Engagement Awards 2015 – announcing the inaugural winners
The Employee Engagement Awards were set to recognise the great work that companies across the UK are doing when it comes to putting engagement at the heart of their strategy – we’re very pleased to announce the winners for our first year! Hundreds of companies entered the awards, ranging from start-ups to multinationals including Lidl, […]
The essential role of HR in employees’ engagement and commitment
How to create high employee engagement and commitment has become a central focus point for many organisations’ strategies. The added value that engaged and committed employees have is increasingly being recognised by CEOs, stakeholders, managers and HR. Our latest research shows that despite this recognition, there’s still much work to be done to realise employees’ […]
Facebook at Work: A tool to improve employee engagement?
This article was first published on our sister site, MyCustomer.com, by their deputy editor Chris Ward. It’s fair to say that Facebook has protruded into every facet of our lives outside the office, but as an enterprise tool? It’s a bridge very few business leaders have traditionally been comfortable allowing their employees to cross. Despite this, […]
HRZone announces US employee engagement awards
Following on from the success of the UK employee engagement awards, which will announce its winners in January 2015, we've teamed up with the EE Awards to bring the same program of recognition and celebration to America. The EE Awards will celebrate the best small and big businesses North America has to offer – the game changing, forward-thinking […]
Finalists announced for Employee Engagement Awards
HRZone is the exclusive media partner of this year's inaugural Employee Engagement Awards and we're delighted to exclusively announce the shortlist recognising companies putting workforce engagement at the heart of their strategy. As a judge I found the judging process extremely hard. The rigour applied to engagement efforts and the level of maturity were both incredible. Multinationals […]
HRZone are the exclusive media partner to the EE Awards
You've got one day to get your entries in for the Employee Engagement Awards as the deadline is TOMORROW – get your entry in now and make history in the first ever Employee Engagement Awards! We’ve got some great news – we are the exclusive media partner to the Employee Engagement Awards, newly launched for this year. […]
Interview: Cathy Brown, Executive Director, Engage for Success
Cathy is a judge at the inaugural Employee Engagement Awards which will recognise the very best in engagement programmes publicly. Who is Cathy Brown? Cathy Brown is Executive Director at government taskforce Engage for Success. She originally joined Engage for Success as a secondee, then as a volunteer, before returning to become Executive Director. She also works as […]
Interview: Crispin Manners, Chairman, Onva Consulting
Crispin is a judge at the inaugural Employee Engagement Awards which will recognise the very best in engagement programmes publicly. 1) What does employee engagement mean to you? I believe that many companies fail to recognise that the solutions to many of their problems, and the sources of innovation that could be transformational, can come from their employees. […]
Interview: Astrid Erlandsson, employee engagement expert, Effectory International
Earlier this year you moved to Amsterdam to join Effectory International from Stockholm, where you were working for TNS-Sifo. Can you tell us what attracted you to your new role? It was a great opportunity for me to develop professionally, and I was immediately drawn to the culture of the organisation. Effectory International is an […]
Interview: Laura Temple, Head of Leadership Engagement, SABMiller
Laura is a judge at the inaugural Employee Engagement Awards which will recognise the very best in engagement programmes publicly. Who is Laura Temple? Laura Temple heads up leadership engagement at the world’s second largest brewer SABMiller, famous for beers such as Peroni, Grolsh and Pilsner Urquell. Laura is a strategic communication and engagement specialist and […]
How HR can prolong that post-holiday feeling
Picture the scene – staff are returning to the office at the end of the summer holiday season. They’re feeling relaxed, recharged and revitalised. The potential for greater productivity and creativity should be at its highest but, in most cases, it will remain largely untapped as normality quickly kicks in with energy and motivation sapped […]
Interview: Raj Kaur-Hooper, HR Engagement Manager, Twinings
Rajdeep spoke on organisational values and how to get the most out of them on our HRZone webinar, ‘Organisational Values: are they worth the bother?” Click the link to watch her full presentation and the Q&A discussion that followed. She has worked in talent/development/HR engagement roles for 10 years in a variety of industries including retail […]
Talk to your talent today about their tomorrow
Growing economies create more job opportunities. Your talent will be feeling more confident, and more focused on their development than ever, so if you’re not actively engaging with them about the ways they can develop their career with you, then someone else soon will. This is particularly true when it comes to your Generation Y […]
Why HR is its own worst enemy when it comes to employee engagement
In recent years, the use of the written term ‘employee engagement’ has overtaken phrases such as ‘staff incentives’ and ‘employee motivation’1 for the first time since 1920, demonstrating an emerging new ‘engagement’ model when motivating staff, particularly those who work for large, global organisations. Employee engagement is a compelling proposition and there have been dozens […]
Jobs increase, pay stagnates: Solving the employee engagement challenge
“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” Maya Angelou[1] A recent report in the Guardian revealed that "unemployment fell to a five-year low in April but Britain's workers were squeezed by a dramatic slowdown in pay growth, according […]
