Employee Retention

Hands up who loves the Annual Review?  Anyone?  Well, most of the many people we speak to find them uncomfortable, embarrassing affairs, that even break a few hearts.  And it’s…

The CIPD‘s annual survey on absence management paints a fairly grim picture. Stress-related absence is up on last year in most sectors, especially in the public services, and only a…

There are plenty of tools out there to boost employee engagement, and they all produce impressive-looking reports. So far so good, but the hard part for managers who have to do…

In four words: Disengagement costs you money It’s odd that a thing as nebulous as poor engagement costs money, but it does – according to Forbes report on the cost of…

So you already tried free yoga sessions, a pool table in the kitchen, discount health club, pilates in the lunchbreak and wacky colour schemes in the relaxation zone, and you’re still…

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…

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…

How do you motivate sales people?  Tradition holds that money is the way.  Forget all the research showing high-value rewards make people stupid, reduce productivity and encourage dishonesty – sales…

It’s official – employee engagement is low, and getting worse.  If your company is able to work out how to improve it your employees put in more effort, are more…

Of all the thousands of hours of broadcasting and millions of words written about the 2012 Olympic Games, I think one paragraph stands out as having something really important to…

One thing that stands out from our discussions with employees is the near-universal dread of the annual performance review.  And many managers hate it as well.  ‘The annual rigmarole of…