Employee Engagement Blogs

Read our employee engagement blog to get useful management tips, articles and thought leadership ideas for you and your managers.

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…

Bringing the culturecode to life

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…

Prêt a manger finds a happy team means great results. Image by Justin Goring, Flickr CC

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 taking off. Simon Allardice. Flickr CC Licence

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.…

Happiness for both Dog and Human = Vitor Estes - Flickr CC licence

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…

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…

Try our free performance review template – in the downloads centre with other valuable people-management resources!

Life, eh?  You make it through Massive Monday and you’re still manager of xyz widgets, and just when you’d like a bit of a rest here comes the performance review…