Three ways to improve employee engagement with your new health and wellbeing strategy

When launching a new health and wellbeing strategy, you need to be proactive in the way you publicise it. After all, your workers won’t be able to access benefits if they don’t know they exist. Drawing upon our recent experience of delivering a new health and wellbeing strategy, we’ve outlined three ways we helped to […]
Employee satisfaction: not all engagement measures are created equal

The annual engagement survey is on its way out – but what will take its place?
High performance: driven by passion, not perks

How can you get the best performance from employees?
Listen and act: how to get employee experience management right

Employee engagement is key to business growth. Here’s how to do it right.
Five talent management trends to watch in 2020

The year ahead for HR professionals.
Five communication tips to give engagement surveys a happy end

Every employee engagement survey tells a story about the organisation.
How to gain budget for your company’s culture and engagement programmes

Data tips to enhance your case for more engagement budget.
Engagement in the gig economy: a classic oxymoron?

If you’d have heard the term ‘gig economy’ a few years ago you’d have conjured up images of lacklustre bands travelling the country in clapped-out vans. Today, the phrase has been coined as a way of describing a workforce characterised by the prevalence of short-term contracts or freelance work as opposed to permanent jobs. We need […]
New Year planning: how to design a successful team offsite day

While preparations for the end of the year are underway, most of us are also thinking ahead to the raft of team offsite days that will be held in early 2020. There’s no rest for the wicked! Offsites should feel very different to regular meetings. Here are a few tips to help you design and […]
Employee engagement during mergers and acquisitions – ignore it at your peril

A unified approach is best when it comes to employee engagement.
Three predictions for HR in 2020

The road ahead for the HR profession in 2020.
Personal development: why your mood is the great game changer

Success at work comes down to the right mindset.
Employee engagement: will Black Friday pull you in a darker direction?

Black Friday is a challenging time for customer-facing staff.
Leadership: how to nurture emerging millennial leaders

Businesses need to create working environments that reflect the needs of this workforce.
Employee feedback: are employers asking the right questions?

Is your employee survey focusing on the right things?
Employee engagement: how to get the most from generation Z

Understanding, engaging and retaining the newest generation of workers.
Employee feedback: your secret weapon for business success

I’ve always been perplexed that companies are willing to invest millions on the result of a customer satisfaction survey, but so often ignore data in a staff survey – it doesn’t make sense. I understand why consumer-facing businesses pump millions into developing their brands and customer loyalty, but I also have to question who really […]
Leadership: how to maintain employee engagement during a time of change

Engagement with the workforce is fundamental to business performance. Everyone knows that, right? We’re in an age where there is a distinct lack of trust of corporations, business leaders, and, of course, politicians. It’s an age where everything is changing, all of the time. Faith and belief are at an all-time low. As leaders, we […]
Employee experience: has a ‘job for life’ become a thing of the past?

Sir Bradley Wiggins recently announced that he’s swapping sport for social work, as he looks to carve out a new career at age 39. While not many of us can claim to have won an Olympic gold medal, that feeling of wondering what it would be like to try something new is one we can […]
Employee engagement: why small businesses need to do it too

Years ago, I did a talk on employee engagement for small businesses. At the end, one of the participants came to speak with me. He ran a small business, and he wanted to engage his staff, but it seemed like more work on top of running the business itself. How would he find the extra […]