Employee Engagement

11 Dec

Posted at 11:00h in Employee Engagement, Employee Wellness, Featured, Motivating Employees, Occupational Health & Safety, People Management, Productivity, Workplace Culture by

It seemingly becomes longer every year and with the festive season well underway, have you maintained your healthy habits or are you slipping closer and closer to the Naughty list? Have those in the office around you been sharing their tales of late night Christmas...

04 Dec

Posted at 10:30h in Employee Engagement, Learning, Training & Development, Motivating Employees, Occupational Health & Safety, People Management, Uncategorized, Workplace Culture by

The wellbeing of workers is not just a “nice to have” for businesses. Workers can have a low level of wellbeing because of work stress, relationship breakdown, grief and loss, conflict in and out of the workplace, difficulty sleeping and mental illness.  There are at...

01 Dec

Posted at 10:30h in Employee Engagement, Leadership Development, Motivating Employees, People Management, Performance Management, Uncategorized, Workplace Culture by

I recently read an article by Marcel Schwantes titled “3 Reasons Your Employees Are Miserable at Work (and What to Do About It)” and he identified the three root causes of job misery being: Anonymity The feeling employees get when they realise their manager has little...

29 Nov

Posted at 10:30h in Employee Engagement, Leadership Development, Learning, Training & Development, People Management, Performance Management, Systems & Software, Uncategorized by

The importance of ‘Why’ you do business Technology underpins so many of the functions that are performed in organizations today, and it has levelled the playing field, making it easier for competitors to replicate what you do faster than ever before and allow nimble start-ups to...

27 Nov

Posted at 10:07h in Employee Engagement, Featured, HR Strategy, Leadership Development, Learning, Training & Development, Motivating Employees, Organisational Change, People Management, Performance Management, Productivity, Workplace Culture by

Employee retention can be likened to client retention. We accept that it is a lot harder to find a new client than it is to retain one and the same goes with great employees; it is a lot harder to recruit a future star than...

02 Nov

Posted at 10:23h in Employee Engagement, Featured, Leadership Development, People Management, Performance Management, Systems & Software by

The challenge for today’s business owners and executive leadership teams is to realize that they will never maximize their revenue and profit potential if they do not develop leaders at all levels. Recent studies have found that a staggering 95% of organizations do not spend any resources...

02 Aug

Posted at 12:14h in Employee Engagement, Featured, HR Strategy, Motivating Employees, Organisational Change, People Management, Workplace Culture by

The mobilization of an organization’s human resources (HR) behind dynamic change is what strategic HR management is all about. A true catalyst for successful strategy execution is having in place an HR leader in the role of translator – the right-hand person to the CEO,...

03 Jul

Posted at 09:58h in Employee Engagement, Featured, Leadership Development, Managing, People Management, Productivity by

Written by: Mindy Hall - entrepreneur.com When a company launches, everyone wears many hats. The CEO may make sales calls and develop products and the CFO may handle HR and order office supplies. The marketing, sales and product teams may all be one and the same. Everyone feels...

07 Apr

Posted at 16:31h in Employee Engagement, Featured, HR Strategy, People Management, Productivity by

Written by: Nick Martindale - hrmagazine.co.uk Enterprise social networks (ESNs) are becoming increasingly popular among larger organisations, but how can HR encourage employees to engage with them? In an era where people of all ages are increasingly comfortable with the concept of social networking – using sites...

12 Jan

Posted at 14:27h in Employee Engagement, People Management, Productivity, Staffing & Recruitment by

By hcamag.com Fortune 500 biotech firm Quintiles reduced turnover by 50% and increased retention by 13% by focusing on one key driver of business success: employee recognition. It’s easy to implement a reward and recognition strategy which will produce outcomes that mirror Quintiles’ success. The six-step process...