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Leave your creativity outside on the doormat
Companies that are all about maintaining the Status Quo should have a doormat outside their office asking all employees to leave their creativity outside on the mat before they come in.
Read More Published at: 19/04/12 08:00:59 [0 comments]
Maximising ROI from conference attendance.
The real ROI from a conference comes when you return to the office and use your learnings’ to positively impact performance.
Read More Published at: 11/11/11 19:00:00 [0 comments]
Your organisation is full of clever people.
There is no doubt that your organisation is full of very clever people - that’s what gives you your competitive advantage. The challenge is how do you get the best out of them?
Read More Published at: 01/11/11 21:00:00 [0 comments]
To fix a business problem fast - you need a catalyst.
If you have a business problem you need to fix it and you need to fix it fast. The longer you take, the more damaging it will be and the harder it becomes to fix it. Business problems don’t fix themselves and rarely do they go away.
Read More Published at: 03/10/11 10:00:00 [0 comments]
Innovating or following?
According to a new study by the IBM Institute for Business Value and the EIU, it is essential to engage employees and other stakeholders as 'conduits of brand promise'. Wiki-Labs offer a cost-efficient and productive way to do just that.
Read More Published at: 13/09/11 20:00:00 [0 comments]
Ideas Labs work - here's the evidence
User results from the latest Wiki-Solutions Ideas Lab show extremely high levels of engagement and satisfaction among those who took part.
Read More Published at: 12/09/11 16:00:00 [0 comments]
Worldly experience and collective intelligence
Every so often in your career you get to do things that you never imagined you would do and it’s always very exciting when it happens.
Read More Published at: 07/09/11 07:00:00 [0 comments]
Employee Engagement is the difference between outstanding performance and mediocrity.
Countless studies have shown that engaged employees are more productive, more sharply focused on customers and more likely to stay with their organization than their disengaged counterparts. The real challenge is fostering and then sustaining engagement within an organization.
Read More Published at: 01/09/11 16:00:00 [0 comments]
Improving performance starts with a dream.
Have you ever dreamt what it would be like if you could get the people who know the most about your business together with a group of outside experts and ask them to find ways of improving performance? What do you think the outcome would be? Wouldn’t it be amazing?
Read More Published at: 23/08/11 08:45:00 [0 comments]
Are engaged employees born or made?
The value to an organisation of having engaged employees is not in dispute. What is surprising is that every organisation doesn’t have more of them. Which begs the question “Are engaged employees born rather than made?”
Read More Published at: 11/08/11 10:00:00 [0 comments]
Let’s do more of the important stuff and ditch the unimportant bits.
The business plan has been written, the new budget approved, the latest round of re-organisation has been completed so what’s next? Will anything really change? Are people now going to do things differently or are the new plans simply going to be filed away to gather dust as people try to pretend they don’t exist so that life can go on much as it did before?
Read More Published at: 01/08/11 08:00:00 [0 comments]
The 10 C’s of Employee Engagement
Quite clearly, CEOs and managers should be very concerned about a waste of time, effort and resources in their organizations. The reason is simple: If people are not engaged, how can these same leaders attain those business objectives that are critical to improving organizational performance?
Read More Published at: 18/07/11 09:00:00 [0 comments]
How to raise morale for just one day.
What if the interesting debate you had in the bar with someone about “wouldn’t it be great if we could do…..” or “when I was listening to so and so I thought of this great idea” carried on and people who weren’t even party to the original conversation were able to join in as well?
Read More Published at: 15/07/11 10:00:00 [0 comments]
Employee engagement: maximising value from accreditation.
New technologies and processes make it easier to move beyond the basic accreditation requirements and reap the rewards of improved financial performance.
Read More Published at: 08/07/11 07:00:00 [0 comments]
Are you part of the conversation?
Taking the business decisions that a lot of companies have made may make short term improvements to the bottom line but at what cost? Are their staff advocates of their strategy or less than enthusiastic followers? What will happen when things start to get better?
Read More Published at: 06/07/11 17:00:00 [0 comments]
Collective Intelligence is a lifeline
In the TV quiz programme ‘Who wants to be a millionaire?’ if a contestant is unsure of an answer they get a ‘Lifeline’. They can choose to take a 50/50, phone a friend or ask the audience to help them with the answer. But do the same options apply in business if you don’t know the answers?
Read More Published at: 03/07/11 10:00:00 [0 comments]
Engaged employees generate 43% more revenue!
“Effective employee engagement equals business success. It is a very practical way of strengthening your business’ productivity, innovation, attendance rate and voluntary turnover.”
Read More Published at: 30/06/11 15:00:00 [0 comments]
