Employee Engagement Blogs

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

Employee engagement dashboard for managers

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…

Basketball to improve staff wellbeing

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…

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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…

Every suicide is a tragedy: do businesses have a role to play in suicide prevention?

Tomorrow, World Mental Health Day will focus on suicide prevention. The World Health Organisation (WHO) report that close to 800,000 people die due to suicide every year, which is one…

How surveys help office culture

How a survey can help with company culture

Your company culture is a set of unspoken yet collective aspirations that define business growth. When done right, it can increase productivity and performance, amongst other things. A toxic work…

A human side to enterprise – at last

Almost sixty years ago Douglas McGregor published what should have been a ground-breaking book called The Human Side of Enterprise. It contains pretty well everything you need to know about…

WeThrive expands as we welcome latest thriver to the team

We are delighted to announce that this month we have welcomed Craig Mathewson to the WeThrive team. Craig will be working closely with our co-founder, Andrew, as part of the…

Exclusive interview: If you don’t do it, you’re going to get left behind – my business and our four day week

Last week I caught up with David Stone, Chief Exec of recruitment company, MRL Consulting Group. MRL have been operating since 1997 with their head office in Brighton and additional…

Why an inclusive organisation is more agile

When a business outlines its mission statement and company ethos, the words ‘diversity’ and ‘inclusive’ will often figure prominently. A stated commitment to diversity and inclusivity is now not just…

Insights from the inaugural CIPD Festival of Work

We were delighted to showcase WeThrive at the recent CIPD Festival of Work held at London’s Olympia earlier this month. It was truly a pleasure to mingle with so many…