There are a few changes coming into effect in the next couple of months that may affect some of the basics of how you employ people within your business. This is a brief overview: Changes to the employment statement of particulars: All workers/employees will be entitled to receive a written Read More
If your employee engagement programmes aren’t hitting the spot, try a different approach
Uniquely blending an understanding of personal motivation with organisational engagement feedback, our innovative new approach enables employers to better understand their people in order to raise organisational performance and create employee satisfaction in the workplace. motivate2engage are tackling the shortfall in the success of many employee engagement programmes by launching Read More
Is employee engagement just about making your people happy? Five business reasons to think again…
Employee engagement is merely about having happy people in the workplace right…? Wrong! Engaged people can be happy, but happy people are not necessarily engaged. And if they are not engaged your business can be significantly disadvantaged… So, what does engagement mean? There is no single definition, but a common Read More
Why PEAs cause workplace conflict, and what you can do about them
Do you ever stop to wonder why it is that you just don’t ever seem to see eye to eye with a particular colleague or one of your staff. Or you have found yourself trying to make up ground with a client who you somehow managed to upset, but you Read More
Why everyone should run their own business …at some point
Although the UK is a nation built on the backs of small businesses (5.3m in 2015, 99.3% of the total business population to be precise) it’s fair to say that most people don’t actually work for themselves. But should they? It wasn’t something I contemplated doing a few years ago, Read More