Blogs
Staff sickness cancels 500 trains
It has been a bad week for anyone who has to commute into London by Southern Railway. The trains are packed enough as it is, with many season ticket holders…
Motivation theory and what does it mean to thrive?
As you can imagine, that’s an important question to us. And in a field full of similarly vague concepts (happiness, satisfaction, engagement, motivation and so on) it seems an important…
Wellbeing in the workplace: making space to really care for your people
Wellbeing in the workplace is talked about so much in the press you would be forgiven for thinking we are making real progress in that area. Unfortunately, while awareness is…
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…
Four steps to the best employee retention strategy
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…
Why are so many people unhappy at work?
One way to answer the question about why so many people hate their jobs is to remember the very best job you ever had and ask yourself what made it…
Repositioning Employee Engagement
Live discussion from Employee Engagement experts – 7th September @ 5.30pm Does your organisation have 100% fully committed and engaged workforce? Could your employee’s motivation and engagement perhaps be better? …
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…
Want to improve motivation at work? Take a walk…
Unsophisticated as it might sound, just walking is one of the best things you can do in the working day to improve motivation at work. A new study shows that a few walks a…
New Year’s Revolution – make the annual review better!
As you may remember from Douglas Adams’ masterpiece “The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”, the book of that name was a best-seller largely because it had the words “Don’t Panic”…