Don’t drop the ball now – engage for recovery
Change and upheaval has been a feature of the past year. However as we look to the future, engagement will be a key differentiator. Is your organisation engaged and ready to play the game? We all know an engaged workforce is essential to an organisations health and wealth, particularly as we move out of the […]
Top tips: Employee engagement
The most practical definition of engagement is whatever it takes to convince someone that their job is worth doing, so that they enjoy doing it and want to do it well. Here are some top tips on working with employees to release motivation. We must never lose sight of the fact that research has shown […]
Europeans ‘least engaged’
European employers have the least engaged workforces in the world by far, with a massive two thirds of staff saying they are less than fully committed to their current employer, according to a new study. The figure contrasts with employees in both North America and Asia Pacific, of whom some 52% and 47% respectively claim […]
Engaging for success with Eric Peacock
Eric Peacock is a serial entrepreneur. His first buy was BabyGro which he purchased from its American owners. He currently chairs eight businesses. When asked about employee engagement, Eric says he makes sure it is present in every organisation. He was involved in shaping the engaging for success guidance as a business advocate for the […]
Engagement’s time has come: The MacLeod guidelines are launched
David McLeod, Nita Clarke and Lord Young today joined forces with business leaders, including small business champion Eric Peacock and Sainsbury’s Justin King to launch the guidelines from the MacLeod report, delivered last year. The new guidance – published on www.businesslink.gov.uk/employeeengagement – is designed to help employers reap the benefits of effective engagement. These include […]
Active rest and recovery for competitive advantage at work
If you are searching for competitive advantage and sometimes wonder “how do I achieve more?” then part of the answer could well be counter-intuitive. Keith Hatter explains why we should protect our sleep. In both the corporate and sporting arenas, an important part of the recipe for achieving consistent, intense and sustained high performance is […]
Free resource – Survey helps recruit engaged employees
FindingPotential has launched a free psychometric questionnaire which helps organisations to recruit candidates who will be highly engaged in their job. The 10-minute online questionnaire, Engage, creates an instant feedback report, showing the relative importance to the individual of 14 aspects of work that underpin employee engagement and commitment. "Different people want different things from […]
Want engaged employees? Engage with the wellbeing of your employees
In times of financial uncertainty it can be difficult to motivate a workforce, and even harder to motivate and engage with individual members of staff. For an employee, feeling that their boss cares about them is one important aspect of engagement. However, ‘showing you care’ in a genuine and effective way can prove difficult. Showing […]
Can you afford to ignore your disengaged employees?
We often hear about how to better engage with employees, but what about the actively disengaged employee? Don’t stick your head in the sand, says Mike Friend. Tackling the drivers of both engagement and disengagement is critical to achieving high performance. The concepts of the service profit chain as proposed by Heskett, Sasser and Schlesinger […]
Proof of engagement – it worked for me
Councillor Alan Rudge, cabinet member for equalities and HR at Birmingham City Council has driven forward an award-winning employee engagement programme that will increase performance and productivity and protect the quality of the service delivered. He explains how it has improved staff engagement and the importance of putting people first. People are at the […]
Engaging employees – it’s a management issue
Line managers play a more important role in keeping staff engaged and motivated than either more senior leaders or the boss, according to a new study. A survey undertaken among more than 276,000 employees by Best Companies, which compiles the Sunday Times ‘100 Best Companies to Work For’ list, indicated that overall engagement levels had […]
Engaging your talent through embodied leadership
Which qualities does a leader require to inspire engagement of their key talent and harness discretionary effort? Make healthy high performance part of your organisation. In today’s fast-paced, impatient and often stressful world, leaders need to find a way of being and leading that liberates people to contribute their unique talents willingly – thereby giving […]
Engaging Employees – eight steps to become a people engager instead of a people manager
Engaging employees, rather than just managing them, is recognised by many business leaders as a crucial process to pull through the recession successfully. A UK Government report* also acknowledges the importance of employee engagement. So how do you get employee engagement right to help your organisation thrive in the upturn? Will Mitchell, Director of Consulting […]
Happy employees, happy customers – engage and grow
Doug Shaw recently met with Kate Davies, the CEO of Notting Hill Housing, to find out how she is leading and encouraging engagement as a way of improving service. Kate started by observing a key difference between west and east whereby the east seemed to get the concept of sacrifice for the greater or community […]
Re-engagement – now is the time
Strong internal relationships are central to building productive and profitable workforces and the role of HR in helping to create and maintain environments that are conducive to keeping your crucial players is key, says Clive Hyland. However, a recent study shows there may be some challenges for HR professionals to address – research conducted […]
The rules of engagement : Retaining talent’s top 10 blunders
In these changing times, it makes sense that employee engagement is the holy grail of many businesses. However – we so often get it wrong. From badly managed benefit schemes through to poor leadership styles, here are the top 10 errors and how to avoid them. 1. Lack of subtlety Employee engagement is a complex and incredibly […]
Engagement top priority to aid retention, says survey
The top priority for a huge two thirds of HR directors over the year ahead will be boosting employee engagement in order to improve retention rates as businesses start moving out of recession. Second on the list is being able to demonstrate a return on investment on proposed HR projects, which are under more scrutiny […]
Employee engagement neglected in 80% of businesses
While nearly 60 per cent of middle managers believe that an engaged workforce contributes significantly to corporate performance, less than a fifth use employee engagement techniques to any great extent, not least because they do not know any. These are the findings of a survey among 300 middle managers in large national and international organisations […]
Survey and transform absenteeism
A true story of how a biopharmaceutical company in North Wales transformed its fortunes in five years to secure its future with employee surveys. 2004: Ipsen Biopharm ceases manufacture of their core product and makes around 100 people redundant, a third of the workforce. The future success of the company relies on launching its […]
MacLeod steps up engagement
The government-backed campaign to improve employee engagement in Britain’s businesses has stepped up a gear, an audience at the headquarters of the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills (DBIS) heard at the Sustainable employee engagement conference. Held to raise awareness of employee engagement on the recommendation of the government sponsored MacLeod Review, the ‘Sustainable employee […]