Employee Engagement Resources

Protests in Paris by Antonin Remon. Flickr Creative Commons licence

How to improve employee engagement, not lose your shirt

France is famous for direct action, but this was something else We’re used to piles of burning tyres at the Eurotunnel, lakes of milk in the Champs-Elysées, etc., but the…

Employee retention

Seven key signs your employees are not engaged

In four words: Disengagement costs you money It’s odd that a thing as nebulous as poor engagement costs money, but it does – according to Forbes report on the cost of…

Four steps to the best employee retention strategy

So you already tried free yoga sessions, a pool table in the kitchen, discount health club, pilates in the lunchbreak and wacky colour schemes in the relaxation zone, and you’re still…

Repositioning Employee Engagement with EngageForSuccess.org

Now if you’ve got a few minutes, this broadcast is well worth a listen.  Founders of WeThrive, Andrew and Piers, and WeThrive client, Janine Osmond from Salisbury NHS Trust are…

Why are so many people unhappy at work?

One way to answer the question about why so many people hate their jobs is to remember the very best job you ever had and ask yourself what made it…

Repositioning Employee Engagement

Live discussion from Employee Engagement experts – 7th September @ 5.30pm Does your organisation have 100% fully committed and engaged workforce? Could your employee’s motivation and engagement perhaps be better? …

Dumping the performance review

Big business is dumping the performance review. You next?

According to the Washington Post, the annual performance review is finally on its way. A number of big companies have already said they’re taking the plunge, Accenture, Gap and Adobe…

7 things you can do to improve employee retention

There is a wonderful blog by Roy Lilley on the NHS-Managers.net website.  Stay with me if you aren’t connected with the NHS – it’s a gripping, terrifying commentary on current politics and…

Want to improve productivity?

Want to improve productivity? Of course you do, and there’s plenty of advice on how to get it. But advice is just words, and usually lots of them – how do you…

Should office design be part of the performance appraisal process?

That sound an odd suggestion, but if you run and/or work in any kind of office you might want to read the recent Harvard Business Review blog post on office…

Healthy workplaces make for happy and effective employees

Healthy workplaces make for happy and effective employees

It’s official – the National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), the UK body that looks after public health, says that if you look after the wellbeing of employees…

One thing every manager can do that always improves staff performance

One thing every manager can do that always improves staff performance

It’s Monday morning and I have a weekly management meeting with my director…. Last week was not a good week – we missed our numbers again ;-( As expected got…