Leadership today demands more than meeting current quarterly goals—it requires shaping the future of the business and its people against the backdrop of an often challenging environment. Yet, there are striking gaps between the skills that leaders need and the development organisations are providing. According to DDI’s Europe Leadership Report 2025, leaders recognise the need…
Tag: Employee Engagement
Gallup’s State of the Global Workplace: 2021 Report found that European countries were remarkably resilient to the effects of the pandemic in 2020, but their longer-term track record of employee engagement still raised significant concern. European employees are among the least engaged in the world. However, while the scale of the issue is continental, the…
The words ‘safe’ and ‘stable’ may not immediately sound the most engaging, but they can play a significant role in developing and maintaining an attractive workplace culture that supports highly engaged employees. At our company, we spend a lot of time talking to clients, and to delegates at our Best Employers Eastern Region leadership conferences,…
Although many companies have faced increased pressure to create a more diverse and inclusive workplace, a lack of diverse hiring teams, limited recruiting processes that fail to reach a broad candidate pool, and unconscious similarity biases have contributed to many companies’ continued struggle to improve diversity in their workplace. However, some businesses have come up…
Research carried out by financial services firm the MPA Group has found that a quarter of office workers invest no time at all in professional development and learning new skills. For some that will be a personal choice, but for many more, it will be because their company simply doesn’t give them the time or…
We all have a slightly different way of working, using our varied experience, skills, traits, and preferences as to how, when, and where we complete our duties. Understanding and capitalizing on these attributes are key for managers who want to adapt, innovate and succeed. Research on employee preferences at work suggests that “autonomy and authority”…
You would think that office design would only be something that facilities management would be concerned with. But as it turns out, office design is hugely important to HR professionals as well. This is because the space in which employees work has an impact on both the recruitment process and how well people perform in…
Employee retention plays a big part in how recruiting, and sourcing strategies are created and executed. That’s a given. However, there’s a lot of conversation and noise in the industry about how everyone wants to find and hire top talent, while the retention aspect often gets assimilated or assumed as part of that process and…
Picture this. It is 10:24 A.M., Monday. You are going through your inbox typing away replies and setting your priorities for the day. Click.Click.Click Then, one of your employees drops by. An expression of unease displayed on their face. Your initial reaction — something’s happened. Work-related. Well, yes and no. They want to leave. Call…