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Category: Employee engagement

What is employee engagement and why does it matter?

According to the CIPD appears to be no common understanding of employee engagement. Some definitions focus on employee behaviour or employee attitudes, some on employee feelings, some on conditions of work, and what the organisation does for them.

Posted by Emer Bucukoglu on
26 May 2022

Why employee engagement can ease the pressure on pay and reduce skills shortages

Pay & Reward | Employee engagement | Employee communications | Engagement

We do naturally see ebbs and flows in pay movement, and what feels heightened now, will in time be part of a wave.

Posted by Justine Woolf on
25 February 2022

The Gig Economy and how to effectively engage the contingent workers in your workforce

Employee engagement | Engagement | Flexible working

Regardless of whether a contingent worker is working five or 35 hours, should feel as included, recognised and ultimately engaged as much as a permanent employee. Alastair Cole provides his top tips for keeping your flexible workforce engaged.

Posted by Alastair Cole on
08 April 2021

Six tips to test the transparency of your reward and benefits communication strategy

Employee engagement | Communications | Reward Strategy | Transparency

Perceptions of unfairness in reward, regardless of whether there is any truth behind the perception, can be extremely damaging to the culture and productivity of a business, so how can we test the transparency of our communication? Cathryn Edmondson offers six ways you can try.

Posted by Cathryn Edmondson on
01 April 2021

How to make your communication strategy inclusive

Employee engagement | Employee communications | Communications | Employee Experience

Achieving a truly inclusive internal comms strategy takes energy and a commitment to review and evolve. Cathryn Edmondson discusses some of the steps an organisation can take in pursuit of an inclusive internal comms strategy.

Posted by Cathryn Edmondson on
24 December 2020

How communicating with and engaging employees will change in the next five years

As baby boomers bow out while Gen Z become a bigger proportion of the workforce, it’s important to rethink your organisation’s engagement strategy. With only 1 in 3 employees on average engaged globally, there has never been more reason to refresh existing tactics.

Posted by Mark Macoun on
03 December 2020

It's not always about the money: how to motivate your staff with non-cash rewards

Pay & Reward | Employee engagement | Recognition | Reward | Employee Experience

While financial motivation can certainly attract key talent to your organisation, it will not always keep it. Emer Bucukoglu suggests ways in which you can use non-monetary rewards to attract, motivate and retain staff, and improve your company's bottom line along the way.

Posted by Emer Bucukoglu on
28 August 2020

Keeping employee recognition at the forefront in an ever-changing world

Employee engagement | Recognition | Employee Experience

There is much research out there that demonstrates the clear link between recognition and engagement, and, ultimately, increased productivity and profit levels. With this in mind, Alastair's has pulled together his top tips for recognition during these uncertain times.

Posted by Alastair Cole on
12 August 2020

Shaping your employee deal with benefits built for the future

The impact of Covid-19 and a move to home working has created many opportunities for organisations to reshape their employee deal into one that embraces technology, facilitates increased levels of personalisation, has a ‘social purpose’, extends to the contingent workforce and is more holistic, covering financial, mental, physical and social elements of wellbeing.

Posted by Justine Woolf on
21 July 2020

The importance of culture when recruiting

Employee engagement | Culture | Employee Experience | Recruitment

An effective company culture permeates the entire employee lifecycle from the recruitment process through to the time an employee leaves the business and can act as a strong stable core within an organisation. Cathryn Edmondson offers some advice on how to ensure your company culture remains intact through periods of growth and recruitment.

Posted by Cathryn Edmondson on
21 July 2020

Authenticity, and why your internal brand is just as important as your external brand

If you aren’t communicating your employee deal effectively, not only are you not getting best return on investment for your spend, but you aren’t leveraging the often many great benefits that make up your total reward deal to best advantage when it comes to attracting, motivating and retaining your staff.

Posted by Justine Woolf on
14 July 2020

The impact of bonus and variable pay on morale and engagement

Bonus | Motivation | Employee engagement | Engagement | Covid-19

As we are now seeing lockdown lifting, albeit gradually, many workplaces are getting back to some kind of normality, are bonus expectations set to come back? Mark Macoun looks at how the pandemic has influenced bonus payments, and suggests ways you can boost morale and engagement when budgets are tight.

Posted by Mark Macoun on
06 July 2020

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