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Free Engaging Manager webinar exclusively for in-house practitioners
Join us for a free Gatehouse Academy webinar on 1 February 2010 and learn how to put line managers at the heart of your internal communications To celebrate the launch of our Engaging Manager learning programme for line managers and aspiring leaders, Gatehouse Academy invites you to participate in a…
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The building blocks of a successful f2f strategy
Facilitating and improving face-to-face (f2f) communication is arguably the single most important aspect of what we do as internal communication professionals. Study after study shows that face-to-face is the communication channel most preferred by employees for certain types of information. It is t…
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Meat no cheese when it comes to employee events
Now that we at Gatehouse are officially in the events business (our live events arm Gasp! is now around six months old and growing nicely) I find myself pondering more and more the role of big set piece events as part of the employee comms mix – and questioning the tactics some organisations a…
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MacLeod Review provides a timely reminder of the importance of employee engagement
Published today (16 July 2009), the MacLeod Review of employee engagement has recommended government support and more cooperation by UK businesses both large and small, to make sure the relationship between employees and employers is at the centre of successful business plans. Led by David Mac…
Lessons in Theo-logy
A short piece in yesterday’s Sunday Times caught my eye. It featured an interview with multi millionaire entrepreneur and Dragon’s Den star Theo Paphitis, on the subject of employee motivation. It’s not a deep article, but there are some nice little lessons in there. HereR…
More evidence of our failure to engage
The findings of yet another survey published this month suggest that poor motivation is harming UK productivity and holding us back in the global economy. The ‘What’s My Motivation?’ study, published by the Hay Group, found that just 15% of UK office workers consider themselves highly motivate…
Putting employees to sleep
Don’t worry, I’m not advocating lethal injections for disengaged workers… The Training and Development Agency for Schools has just surveyed over 2000 graduate employees and come up with its ‘Workforce Boredom Index’. According to the study, administrative/secretarial em…
Move over Mr Motivator!
I was pushed for time when I published my last blog post so I didn’t even try to address the all-important ‘so what?’ question. That’s why I was delighted to see fellow blogger Andrew Miller pick up the baton on his InsideWork blog. Employee motivation is a fascin…