Employee Engagement
Setting employee engagement KPIs that help demonstrate ROI
Unlike sales, advertisement or production, employee engagement cannot be measured easily with quantifiable data to demonstrate a return on investment. And this muddies the process of estimation and analysis to work out the engagement levels of staff, and what impact is had when engagement levels are poor vs. when engagement levels are high. This is where the introduction of KPIs is particularly valuable.
Employee Engagement
Nimble, adaptable, empathetic and responsive – The future of employee listening
Ensuring your employees feel heard and valued in today’s business world requires an approach to employee listening and research that is nimble, adaptable, empathetic, and responsive. Your pre-pandemic approach – whatever it was – won’t work anymore. Sticking with it could even be perceived as callous or tone deaf by the people working for you. You will lose them and fail to attract their replacements if you don’t adapt.
Business & Professional Services
Managing hybrid working: Top tips for HR teams
The pandemic forced remote working on the world and accelerated change that could have otherwise taken a generation to happen. As we adapt to post-pandemic working, we see many organisations struggling with attrition and retention. This has led organisations to move towards flexible hybrid working.
Employee Engagement
The cost-of-living crisis – a new challenge for HR and leadership teams
The cost-of-living crisis is bringing a whole new set of challenges for people across the country. And it’s having a catastrophic effect on both the financial and personal wellbeing for those affected. The cost of living is spiralling out of control, to such an extent that when winter is upon us, people really will have to choose between heating or eating.
Employee Engagement
6 tips to help your company's managers onboard their new hires like a pro
Hiring a new employee to join your team is an exciting time. It means that staff will soon be able to learn from someone completely new. And, it also makes way for lots of fresh ideas to be brought into the team. However, a new starter’s personal experience of the onboarding process is critical to how they interact and engage in their role going forward.
Our Platform/Tech
How the art of People Science can enhance your employee engagement
Employee research and insight has changed dramatically over the last 20 years. It has moved from a simple annual measurement of employee satisfaction to more regular measurements of the whole employee experience and lifecycle.
Employee Engagement
7 top tips for getting actionable insights from your employee surveys
If your business truly cares for its staff, employee surveys should never be seen as just a box to tick or a ‘nice-to-have’. If approached in the correct way, these surveys can be used to gather leading data. This data will provide actionable insights that will support and help fix key issues that occur within your organisation. For example, issues around recruitment, retention, and customer service.
Wellbeing
5 ways you can improve health and well-being in your place of work
Supporting well-being in the workplace is beneficial for both employees and leaders alike. For employees, it boosts happiness, job satisfaction and promotes healthier living. For leaders, they often see better performance, improved retention rates and their brand’s hiring efforts become easier — who wouldn’t want to join a company that focuses on building health and wellbeing into their culture?
Employee Engagement
Are annual surveys a waste of time? The challenges around engagement frequency
Each and every year, the world continues to evolve at a fast pace. And the wants and needs of employees continue to change along with this too. That’s where annual surveys can come in handy – and it’s a practice utilised by many.
Employee Engagement
Improve your workplace culture by prioritizing regular employee listening
Creating a great company culture is vital for employee happiness and productivity, and therefore business growth. And a truly healthy workplace culture will stem from addressing and actioning feedback from employees at all levels in an organization.
Retention
When onboarding fails!
New-hire attrition is an ongoing issue, with up to 20 percent of new hires leaving within the first 45 days of their new role and 33 percent leaving after just six months. With the average cost of recruiting a new employee in the UK £3,000 , seeing a third of your new hires leaving so soon, can be both costly and disruptive.
Productivity & Performance
Why does company culture matter?
There are many approaches your organisation can take to win the war for talent , where, in the modern day, talented candidates that are the right fit are hard to find and just as equally hard to keep. But ultimately, the approach that attracts and retains the modern worker above all is how they see, experience, and interpret the company culture. But this is often overlooked. Failure to compose a thought-through culture plan and/or allowing it to form naturally is therefore a huge mistake to...
Employee Engagement
Pulse surveys and the power of leading data
Pulse surveys are a great tool for organisations to gain employee feedback, and they’re becoming increasingly popular as a result. Traditionally, it was a very common business practice to only issue employee surveys annually. However, a recent shift in the need for regular employee listening has meant that surveys need to be relayed more frequently.
Retention
6 actionable tips to improve retention and recruitment
Employee wants and needs change all the time – this isn’t anything new. However, where the pandemic has accelerated this, it has thrust the importance of the employee experience into the limelight more than ever before.
Retention
Could onboarding and exit surveys be the key to ‘winning the talent war’?
In today’s world, where the work environment is continually changing, it makes quality candidates hard to find, and just as equally hard to retain. According to recent data from the Office of National Statistics, the number of job vacancies available in the UK rose to a new record of 1,300,000 between March to May 2022, revealing just how high the competition is for talented employees. A talent war is among us!
Employee Engagement
Leading a hybrid team – the new expectations
As we continue to navigate out of the pandemic and settle into the new ‘normal’ of our working lives, it’s clear to see that hybrid working is here to stay. With the many benefits of either remote or hybrid working being felt – from saving time on a daily commute, general costs savings, and increased time spent with family – it is easy to see why more employees than ever are pushing for their organisations to commit to a long-term hybrid team working model. Hybrid working is now being driven by employee demand not employer preferences.
Employee Engagement
How Human Resources can influence its leadership teams
2022 is bringing a greater focus on leadership teams than ever before. In times of uncertainty, everyone in an organisation turns towards their leaders, so it’s not really a huge surprise.
Employee Engagement
Know why your people quit – before it becomes too late…
Imagine that, in an idle moment, you’re looking at your company-issued smart phone and you see an advert for a job on LinkedIn that seems to be right up your street. You click on that link, and you start to make an application and that’s when your boss appears in front of your desk (yes for a change you are in an office) and says “I can see you’ve clicked onto LinkedIn Jobs but before you go any further, can I talk to you about how you’re doing and the opportunities available to you here?” Amazi
News & Updates
WorkBuzz prepares to ‘go global’ after £1.5m investment
WorkBuzz prepares to ‘go global’ after £1.5m investment, with the money being used to improve the their employee engagement platform.
Diversity & Inclusion
Diversity in leadership and why it matters
As society evolves, we’ve seen an increasing need to ensure that organisations and, in particular, leadership of those organisations, keep up with changes. This has never been more apparent when it comes to diversity and inclusion. And the studies are clear – diversity and inclusion, especially in leadership, is paramount to success.
Our Platform/Tech
Questions to answer when launching an engagement survey
Whether you’re about to embark on your first or your 31 st employee engagement survey , the way you communicate about it in the lead up to launch can make or break its success. Think about who it is that needs to be bought into the survey and its purpose. Leaders, managers, employees… Let’s just summarise it as everyone. For the most successful survey, everyone in your business should be aware of the intent and purpose of it.
Wellbeing
The Great Resignation - How do you stop your employees leaving?
The Great Resignation doesn’t appear to be slowing down, with latest research revealing that almost a fifth of UK workers have said they expect to leave their current job for a new employer in the next 12 months. Plus, according to the CIPD , the rate of job-to-job moves stands at 3.2 per cent which is a record high. And so, managing with an ever-depleting workforce is a challenge many business and HR leaders are currently battling with. And they are simultaneously trying to figure out why their people are leaving so that the exodus can be slowed. Here’s how you can reduce the likelihood of your employees leaving.
Retention
Why you shouldn’t solely focus on negative survey results
Conducting employee surveys is an incredibly insightful method to understand what is important to your people. At the same time, it’s also very easy to put a microscope over the negative employee feedback received, and primarily focus on how this can be actioned first. Whilst it’s imperative that negative feedback is not ignored, but addressed and actioned in good time, it’s also important to pay close attention to the positive survey results received for the following reasons:
Employee Engagement
Is hybrid working? - Being flexible as an employer
In theory, hybrid working offers the best of all worlds for the employer and employee. It combines pre Covid-19 patterns of office-based working, with remote days, into an overall working schedule that allows both for in-person collaboration, team building, and productive work at a work location. This, as well as the opportunity for employees to carry out more focussed work when they need to be at home too.
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