Employee Engagement – should HR or marketing be managing the process?
Keeping, motivating and informing the best people is key to any organisation’s success. So it’s no wonder that employee engagement is a more important topic than ever in the context of internal communications. Increasingly, evidence is proving that engaged employees [...]
Buffing up the boss
It’s a reasonable bet that no-one in the western world missed the passing of Steve Jobs. News bulletins, front pages and (seemingly) every online forum in the universe eulogised the man who must be the most respected business leader of [...]
The Ten Commandments of Engagement
Time was when we used to work in HR, or Internal Communications. Not any longer. Now, the people who make the laws have decreed we’re all Engagement Facilitators. Type ‘engagement’ into Google and you’ll get nearly a third of a [...]
The sweaty stench of true engagement
The HRD put down his second cup of coffee and wiped his brow. ‘I agree that we need to talk to our people about how this change is going,’ he said. ‘But there’s talking, and then there’s talking. ‘What we [...]
Funny Business
I went to a comedy festival the other week. One of the best acts was Alex Horne, who had a handful of impressive groaners. ‘Does anyone here read ‘Chat’ magazine?’ he asked. ‘It’s great. Particularly if you’re French. And you [...]