To kick start our guest blog contributions, we asked Peter Wakefield, head of organisational development, at Radian to give us the lowdown on how successful action planning has boosted the organisation’s employee engagement levels 17% in two years to an impressive 75%. Who we are We are a group of housing associations and a care […]
Recently we had a small get together of clients and contacts from across the private sector to talk about “fresh thinking” in employee engagement and ponder the wonders of text mining, employer brand measurement and the benefits of qual as a method for truly understanding the employee experience. We also baked bread!! Ambassadors from the […]
Whether you are just starting out on your engagement journey or are well into it, here are some hints and tips as shared at the Higher Education Networking event last week from the University of Sheffield, the University of Surrey and the University of Reading. We are asked by a lot of higher education institutions, […]
Following recent news at Yahoo! and Best Buy, ORC International delved into the telecommuting debate and sought to get America’s perceptions about telecommuting and its correlation with productivity and work-life balance. New research shows that 65% of Americans believe that telecommuters are actually productive when working from home, but not all Americans are convinced – 29% […]
So we’re all now on the Yahoo! bandwagon – Is it insanity or genius? Will we witness the company’s ugly demise or be kicking ourselves for not following suit? The opinion’s are certainly flying and ORC International’s Social Buzz data depicts sentiment surrounding Marissa Mayer has shifted ten percentage points towards negative since her appointment […]
Want to hear another buzz word? Another little gem of blue-sky-deep-sea-imagineering? You know you do. Besides, you probably need a new face for your dart board at this time of year. Ready? Yes? Hear goes. Crowdsourcing. No, not crowd surfing, (the process in which a person is passed overhead from person to person – often during […]
Time for us to make our annual resolutions to eat less, exercise more, volunteer, plant a tree, read more worthy books, blah, blah, blah… Oddly enough our professional lives are often ignored in these pledges but actually January is a great time to turn over a new leaf at work. So in the spirit of […]
“What do you do?” Ah, the go-to question when meeting someone new – it’s as common as Starbucks. “What do you do?” “I work in research” “Research? Oh how interesting, what type of research” Damn it. I am now instantly on a pathway I know will disappoint. “Employee Engagement” “Sorry?” “Employee Research?” A look of bedazzlement […]
Once again, the past 12 months have been a period of big economic change and upheaval across the globe. In HR Reflections, the HR professional survey of the year, we examined the biggest challenges in the sector. Leadership development and engagement have emerged as some of the key challenges in the coming year, with a total of […]
At the London 2012 Olympiad, volunteers are called ‘Games Makers’ because, as Seb Coe says, they help make the Games happen. All across London you can spot them, in their bright orange and purple uniforms and their unaffected enthusiasm and warmth. They have been universally hailed as a success – cheerful, helpful – the making […]
