I was asked to answer this question on Quora earlier this week – ‘what are some activities to increase employee engagement among blue-collar workers?’. It is an interesting question that brings needed focus to employee engagement outside the office...
Many organisations are realising that their employee engagement efforts are creating an additional opportunity: the prospect of being able to harness the collective intelligence of their workforce. In sport, we often hear commentators talking about the ‘total being...
This question has been giving me some food for thought in recent times. I have enjoyed interesting conversations with advocates of both aspects of this argument – what influences employee engagement more, high level organisational culture or that which is closer...
Train the Trainer is a development programme often viewed as a ‘nice to have’ by so many organisations. It is seen as something that can help your in-house experts deliver their training session but not essential. After all, businesses usually appoint their subject...
Almost every article offering employee engagement advice for organisations seems to focus on a range of similar actions an organisation needs to carry out to engage employees. Almost without fail, these actions emphasise the need to incentivise employees to become...
Over the past few weeks, I have been involved in some very interesting discussions with people from both business and academia. We discussed the positioning of leadership and employee engagement, and where employee empowerment fits into this equation. Basically, we...
