Employee Engagement Blogs
Read our employee engagement blog to get useful management tips, articles and thought leadership ideas for you and your managers.
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…
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
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…
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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…
Bringing the culturecode to life
There’s a shift happening that’s leaving some companies behind (expect a lot of action around the hashtag culturecode in the months to come). While most organisations are still trying to…
Should staff survey questions be anonymous?
So here’s a good question from the Linkedin group on employee engagement surveys – should staff be surveyed anonymously? People taking part in the discussion generally agreed that anonymity is…
A happy team makes for tasty results
If you were listening to the Today programme on BBC Radio 4 this morning you may have heard the chief executive of Pret a Manger sounding very happy about the…
Ryanair has learnt how to win customers the hard way
Great news for air travellers – the boss of Ryanair, the man we thought would never learn how to win customers and keep them, has had a change of heart.…
Is happiness at work the wrong goal?
Liz Ryan asks a provocative question in a piece in Forbes Magazine today: Is employee happiness the wrong goal? You might ask why I am publicising this, as our own strap-line asks you…