Blogs
Why is it so hard to keep good teachers?
The kids are not alright If you come from a privileged background your life chances are still greater – the gap between rich and poor remains ‘persistently high’. The Commission…
The missing link for motivation at work
As an HR manager, how would you like the world to be different? We ask this because at WeThrive we help companies understand what their staff need in order to work…
Does survey completion rate matter?
I’ve just read on a well-known HR site that we shouldn’t get too hung up on survey completion rate when measuring staff engagement – it’s OK if half the staff fill…
How to build an effective team
There is no mystery about how to build an effective team: it happens automatically. Give a group of eight-year-olds a ball and they will improvise a game in no time,…
UK workforce over-qualified? Oh no they’re not…
According to the CIPD Employee Outlook Review 94% of staff think they have at least the qualifications they need for their current job. That’s made up of 63% who think they are adequately…
Making work fun
I just received an email asking “Could Ping Pong, ice cream or space hoppers help you to improve key HR issues such as productivity, wellbeing, engagement and absence management?” The…
Employee Engagement strategies need rethink – Oracle
Oracle Simply Talent has been looking at the way employee engagement is treated in business, and concludes that HR teams are uniquely qualified to make it work, but at the moment they…
Stress is the key to absence management
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…
Leading business success through listening
The CIPD annual conference in November is looking to be a successful event. The topic of employee engagement is coming up again as it will probably every year because it…
CIPD Annual Conference – future-focussed HR building motivation in the workplace
The CIPD annual conference next week has as its tag-line “Future-focussed HR at its best”. It’s looking like it will be a great event. One talk particularly caught my eye on…
How to improve employee engagement, not lose your shirt
France is famous for direct action, but this was something else We’re used to piles of burning tyres at the Eurotunnel, lakes of milk in the Champs-Elysées, etc., but the…
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…
Webinars
Manager Training Academy 5th of March @ 10am: Handling Difficult Conversations
This 1 hr – free to attend – live training webinar on 5th of March @ 10am, bought to you by Daniel Smith from Primed, in collaboration with WeThrive, the…