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…
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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…
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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…
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Insights Discovery and WeThrive – what’s the difference?
Interesting question from the head of the Learning Academy in a very big multinational company: what’s the difference between WeThrive and the Insights Discovery system? On the face of it there ought…
Want to improve motivation at work? Take a walk…
Unsophisticated as it might sound, just walking is one of the best things you can do in the working day to improve motivation at work. A new study shows that a few walks a…
Want motivated employees? Develop your leadership skills…
It’s a confusing world: employee engagement is linked to management candour, motivation is linked to engagement, remuneration was linked to motivation for several centuries but then it turns out not…
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