Employee Engagement Resources

Getting buy-in for the staff survey

Millions spent, to what purpose? According to SurveyGizmo a typical employee survey might get about 35% response rate. InSync suggest that a really well-designed staff survey could get a 60%…

Employee engagement strategies need rethink

Employee Engagement strategies need rethink – Oracle

Oracle Simply Talent has been looking at the way employee engagement is treated in business, and concludes that HR teams are uniquely qualified to make it work, but at the moment they…

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How workplace culture affects mental health at work

According to the CIPD over 40% of UK companies reported an increase in problems with mental health at work last year. This is terrible news for everyone – the cost…

WeThrive employee engagement skills Brighton workshop

WeThrive employee engagement skills workshop 22nd February 2016 – book now

New for 2016 – WeThrive training events to help HR leaders, L&D people and consultants learn about WeThrive and make better use of the information it reveals. The first event…

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Best UK workplace knows about employee engagement strategies

You may have noticed (hard to escape it) that Expedia has just been voted the best place to work in Britain.  As a result, journalists of all sorts have been making their…

How to fall in love with the Annual Performance Review

Hands up who loves the Annual Review?  Anyone?  Well, most of the many people we speak to find them uncomfortable, embarrassing affairs, that even break a few hearts.  And it’s…

Motivation theory

Motivation theory and what does it mean to thrive?

As you can imagine, that’s an important question to us. And in a field full of similarly vague concepts (happiness, satisfaction, engagement, motivation and so on) it seems an important…

Stress is the key to absence management

The CIPD‘s annual survey on absence management paints a fairly grim picture. Stress-related absence is up on last year in most sectors, especially in the public services, and only a…

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Wellbeing in the workplace: making space to really care for your people

Wellbeing in the workplace is talked about so much in the press you would be forgiven for thinking we are making real progress in that area. Unfortunately, while awareness is…

Developing effective employee engagement strategies for business success

Leading business success through listening

The CIPD annual conference in November is looking to be a successful event.  The topic of employee engagement is coming up again as it will probably every year because it…

CIPD Future-focussed HR & How do we boost motivation in the workplace?

CIPD Annual Conference – future-focussed HR building motivation in the workplace

The CIPD annual conference next week has as its tag-line “Future-focussed HR at its best”. It’s looking like it will be a great event. One talk particularly caught my eye on…

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Using WeThrive to boost employee engagement

There are plenty of tools out there to boost employee engagement, and they all produce impressive-looking reports. So far so good, but the hard part for managers who have to do…