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Using WeThrive to boost employee engagement

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…

Employee retention

Seven key signs your employees are not engaged

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…

Dumping the performance review

Big business is dumping the performance review. You next?

According to the Washington Post, the annual performance review is finally on its way. A number of big companies have already said they’re taking the plunge, Accenture, Gap and Adobe…

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…

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…

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 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…

2013 Performance Review Survey

2013 Annual Performance Review Survey

It’s that time of year again when 100,000s  of hr directors, managers and staff get ready to start their annual appraisal process… We decided it would be a cool idea…

How WeThrive prevents performance review mistakes

There’s a great post by Eric Jackson on Forbes about why performance reviews cause aggravation, suggesting “ten ways you can ensure your next performance with your reports will be a…

Performance review software - how to get the best results

How to get the full benefits of your HR or Performance Review Software

Before we start, we are not an HR software or performance review software. OK so what are you? In a nutshell WeThrive sets goals using behavioural psychology to unlock the…