Engagement, Discretionary effort and Freakonomics
I like the way that my successor as CIPR Inside chair Sean Trainor describes the importance of engagement in his recent PR Week podcast. He rightly talks about “engagement” being an over-used term. In...
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I am one of the fortunate 80 who have made the cut for tonight’s Employee Engagement: Art or Science? event. Of course, the answer to the question is inevitably “both”. (Yes - so it’s a fairly...
View ArticleKilling engagement. Post script.
I think Employee Engagement is still breathing this morning. Last night’s debate at the offices of Baker Tilly helped highlight the fundamental issues at stake. 1. Should we be approaching engagement...
View ArticleWhat is it we do again…?
I was flying home from New York last week and unusually for me – my wife says I can be a bit unfriendly to strangers - I struck up a conversation with a lovely older lady sitting next to me. We talked...
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How Gypsies can embrace change…
One of the great things about working at H&K as every now and again I get a request that completely bemuses me. So when my colleague Lou Watson asked me for my views on what the Gypsy community...
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Employee Engagement and the Big Society
The Prime Minister launched his Employee Engagement Taskforce yesterday. He even managed to make a fairly explicit link with his “Big Society” agenda – “This initiative fits well with our agenda of...
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Are we in the armbands business?
I’m not the first to say that change is a continual process. But we often fall into the trap of thinking that we can ‘do’ change, when the truth is we are all of us being carried along by an...
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Scotland’s shame
Those of you (the majority) who are not interested in the parochial world of Scottish football will have missed a quite disgraceful incident at a match that took place in Edinburgh last night. Neil...
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Regular rhythm and structure
Life seems to be getting back into some kind of rythm and structure. You can more or less set your watch by my youngest daughter (in bed at 7pm, awake at 11.30pm, 2am and 6.45am).I’ve got used to my...
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Why listening matters
It has been an odd week. The Bank Holiday weekend meant some much needed respite for my wife… and so I was on childcare duty. A long holiday weekend with my two little girls. I was genuinely excited...
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