Employee Engagement Blogs

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

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How to look after remote workers

How do you look after remote workers in this unusual, unpredictable world we now live in, where working from home has suddenly (and without warning) become the new norm. We’ve…

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Is Covid-19 an opportunity to reinvent ourselves?

Thanks to Covid 19, the world is anything but normal just now, and we are all going to have to embrace uncertainty for the next few months. This is grim…

Employee engagement survey communication strategy

A successful employee engagement survey starts with a good internal communication strategy. How you let staff know a survey is coming has a huge impact on the outcome – whether…

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Employee engagement survey design: six critical considerations 

Employee surveys can be extremely useful, done right – pulling people together and galvanising them into making useful changes. Given that this is the Information Age, it’s natural enough for…

How to choose the best HR software

Could productivity levels in your business be better? Are you struggling with demotivated staff? Is employee turnover causing you a few problems? If the answer to these questions is yes,…

Switching the lights on, turning the brains off

Christmas offers the perfect opportunity for employees to switch off and recharge. As we down tools and head home for Christmas, the constant pinging of emails hitting the inbox shudders…

Why managers should spend more time with their staff

It may be an old adage that employees leave managers not organisations, but the reason it sticks around is because there is truth in it. New research published by UK…

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Give your managers the tools to engage their teams

Managers hold the keys to high levels of engagement, retention and productivity – and research shows that managers account for 70% of variance in employee engagement across business units. However…

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Have sobriety and purpose killed the office Christmas party?

The booze-fuelled office Christmas party has long been an essential date in the business calendar. But now businesses across the UK are rethinking it. Boozy parties are out. Volunteering for…

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Five ideas to encourage better employee physical health

The correlation between improved mental health and wellbeing, and employee physical health through exercise is indisputable. According to The Mental Health Foundation physical activity has a huge potential to enhance…

Is your business engaging with this growing workforce?

This blog was written and contributed to WeThrive by Becky Hesilrige. Millennials, baby boomers, gen X and gen Z. According to the media, we are in the midst of generational…

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The consensus on whether banning out of hours emails would do more harm than good

Last week we were fascinated to learn of recent research from University of Sussex which suggested that banning staff from accessing their work emails outside office hours could do more…