The Great Resignation: Employee Engagement in a Post-Pandemic World
The Great Resignation has fast become kitchen table talk. The media talks of job vacancies going unfilled for months and productivity hitting the floor. How can organisations use employee engagement to stop your staff quitting their 9 to 5’s? Whether or not …
Tackling tough problems – improving staff morale
The executive manager shook his head. “I don’t know what to do. The annual staff survey results aren’t good. Staff morale is falling.” It wasn’t the first year. Morale had fallen in previous surveys. What should they do? At that point nobody …
Employee engagement
With employee engagement, we engage employees to identify the nature of the reason underpinning poor results, particularly with staff morale or productivity, and together we solve those challenges. …
Facilitation: behind the scenes
If you’ve ever been to a facilitated workshop or event you’ll be familiar with the role of the facilitator: the person who welcomes everyone, encourages participation in engagement activities, introduces guests, highlights the key messages of the speakers, asks thought provoking questions, …
What makes a great leader?
Drawing from my own personal experience, there is one exceptional leader who I will never forget. He had a way of connecting and cutting through. His authenticity, energy and commitment to delivering his vision was palpable, you could feel it simply by …
The Millennials: How do we engage this new workforce?
Millennials certainly are creating change and challenging our traditional beliefs when it comes to how work gets done. Managers who are traditionally accustomed to a Baby Boomer workforce will need to engage new strategies to retain and motivate this growing group of …
Employee Communications: Say something with meaning or don’t bother
I have been fortunate to work with some very clever employee communications and engagement experts in my career and one key lesson that has stuck with me is – If you aren’t saying anything meaningful then don’t say it at all. …
How Do You Solve A Problem Like ….? Dealing With Workplace Bullying.
Have you ever been the victim of workplace bullying? What exactly is workplace bullying anyway and how would you know if you have suffered from it? …
5 Reasons We Should Embrace Teamwork
In my university days the dreaded ‘teamwork’ used to send shivers down my spine as I knew full well it would usually involve 50 percent of the group actually doing the work, and the rest sitting idly waiting for the assessment to …
The 7 Steps To Improving Work Performance I Learnt From Masterchef
I realised one night while watching the contestants fumble over ingredients and battle it out in a pressure test that just like in Masterchef, successful work performance requires effective organisation, planning, process, delivery and evaluation. …
Planning For Professional Development
At the end of every financial year, our clients start to focus on professional development as part of their budgeting process. …
What To Do When Your Employee Opinion Survey Results Are Poor
Most large organisations do employee opinion surveys, and many worry about their results. …
Are You An Engaged Employee?
Being employed is a little bit like being in a relationship - it requires commitment from all parties for it to be an effective, lasting partnership. …
Managing your own Communication and Engagement Team takes a lot more than your Technical Skills
We spend a lot of time talking about how to do our jobs better. That is our technical jobs, the work that draws on our skill set in communication and engagement. But if you’ve ever managed a team you, you have probably …
How to Engage Employees at Work – What’s the Secret?
Organisations that are large, small, medium sized, privately owned, listed on the stock exchange, government entities or councils all have one thing in common – the big challenge: how do you keep employees engaged? …
Your staff can help solve business problems
Funny thing about creativity and innovation, it doesn't usually happen unless you change the way you've been working. …
Innovation – Finding that Competitive Advantage Through Employee Engagement
Sit long enough in a boardroom and the inevitable discussion emerges as out how to create greater competitive advantage. …
How to Create an Engagement Framework that won’t Gather Dust
When organisations start the journey of embedding engagement into their workplaces, the often start with creating an engagement framework. …
Next Generation Leaders
The 1990s spawned an industry of leadership coaches, focused to a large part on how to build leaders who could build a vision and then share that vision with staff. …
Productive Conversations: Are You Having The Conversations You Should Be?
Recently I’ve been facilitating staff engagement across the state for an organisation that genuinely wants to improve staff satisfaction. …
