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Employee Feedback Tools: A Quick Guide
September 20, 2024
Employee Feedback Tools: A Quick Guide

Discover the importance of employee feedback tools in boosting engagement, fostering growth, and shaping a positive, trust-based company culture.

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How to Improve Employee Experience
September 12, 2024
How to Improve Employee Experience

Discover the key strategies to enhance employee experience, boost engagement, and improve business outcomes in your organisation.

What is a pulse survey?
What Is A Pulse Survey?
September 10, 2024
What Is A Pulse Survey?

Discover the benefits of pulse surveys, their role in boosting engagement, and how to design effective, customised surveys for real-time employee insights.

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The Employee Retention Survey (Smart Ideas)
September 2, 2024
The Employee Retention Survey (Smart Ideas)

Discover how employee retention surveys can uncover turnover risks, boost engagement, and help build a loyal, high-performing workforce.

A female employee sits at a laptop providing anonymous feedback via an online survey
How To Get Anonymous Feedback From Employees
August 27, 2024
How To Get Anonymous Feedback From Employees

Learn how to gather anonymous employee feedback effectively, ensuring confidentiality, improving workplace culture, and driving continuous improvement.

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Employee Engagement Metrics: Measure And Improve Staff Engagement
August 21, 2024
Employee Engagement Metrics: Measure And Improve Staff Engagement

Measure and improve employee engagement with key metrics, effective strategies, and tools to boost workforce satisfaction and productivity.

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How To Conduct a Return-to-Work Interview
August 12, 2024
How To Conduct a Return-to-Work Interview

Learn how to conduct effective return-to-work interviews, ensuring smooth employee reintegration, addressing concerns, and supporting well-being.

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How to Get Feedback From Employees
August 8, 2024
How to Get Feedback From Employees

Learn how to effectively gather and act on employee feedback to boost engagement, improve workplace culture, and enhance overall organisational success.

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What Is An Exit Survey?
August 5, 2024
What Is An Exit Survey?

Discover the importance of exit surveys, how they help improve employee retention, and tips for conducting effective surveys in your organisation.

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What is Employee Experience?
July 30, 2024
What is Employee Experience?

What is the employee experience today, why does it matter, and how do you improve it for enhanced workplace satisfaction and productivity? Let's find out.

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The Employee Perception Survey (Smart Ideas)
May 29, 2024
The Employee Perception Survey (Smart Ideas)

Regularly engaging and collecting feedback from your staff, can make a big difference to their happiness and your business success. We look at how an employee perception survey can help you.

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Feedback Culture: Exploring Its Purpose, Benefits And How To Build One
May 8, 2024
Feedback Culture: Exploring Its Purpose, Benefits And How To Build One

For any business, no matter how big or small, feedback is the lifeblood for growth and improvement. We explore feedback culture in more detail including its benefits and how to build one.

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The Employee Dashboard: Essential Insights For Business Success
April 24, 2024
The Employee Dashboard: Essential Insights For Business Success

Getting staff to perform to the best of their abilities is crucial. We show how tracking and measuring their performance with the right KPIs, metrics and employee survey dashboard is vital to this.

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How To Improve Employee Loyalty: 6 Great Ways
February 22, 2024
How To Improve Employee Loyalty: 6 Great Ways

While most people recognise how important employees are to their organisation, less consideration is often given to staff loyalty. We show why employee loyalty is vital and ways to improve it.

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Giving Employee Feedback
January 4, 2024
Giving Employee Feedback

Staff feedback is amazingly powerful. When performed effectively it can grow and develop your employees and boost communications and trust throughout your organisation. We show how to develop it.

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Employee Performance: Exploring Ways To Measure, Evaluate And Improve It
December 1, 2023
Employee Performance: Exploring Ways To Measure, Evaluate And Improve It

Given how much staff bring to a business, it shouldn’t be hard to appreciate how much their performance can impact its success or failure. Learn how to measure, evaluate and improve staff performance.

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Employee Lifecycle: How Surveys Can Benefit Key Stages Of Your Employees’ Journey
October 26, 2023
Employee Lifecycle: How Surveys Can Benefit Key Stages Of Your Employees’ Journey

While your customers are vital to driving your revenue, your employees are equally crucial to keeping those customers happy and attracting new ones. We explore how employee lifecycle surveys help.

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Training Surveys: How To Run Them
October 13, 2023
Training Surveys: How To Run Them

Whatever your type of training and its aims, it’s likely to be a significant investment, so you’ll want to get it right. We show how running training surveys can help you with this.

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Employee Surveys: Why They Are An Essential Tool For Your HR Team
September 29, 2023
Employee Surveys: Why They Are An Essential Tool For Your HR Team

Although firms can’t operate without the vital components of customers and employees, staff are often not nurtured as attentively as customers. We explore how to address this with employee surveys.

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Happiness At Work Week: Ways To Increase Staff Contentment
September 15, 2023
Happiness At Work Week: Ways To Increase Staff Contentment

Everyone wants to be happier at work and there’s lots of benefits of a happier workforce for employers too. We explore how to achieve this through activities including surveys.

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Exploring The Impact Of Leadership On Employee Engagement And How Surveys Help
August 18, 2023
Exploring The Impact Of Leadership On Employee Engagement And How Surveys Help

While many organisations recognise the benefits of employee engagement, fewer are clear about the vital role that their leaders must play in this process. We explore this and the role of surveys.

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Employee Trust: Boost It Through Employee Surveys
July 28, 2023
Employee Trust: Boost It Through Employee Surveys

For any organisation that wants to succeed, gaining employee trust, so that everyone pulls in the same direction is vital in determining their future success. See how ongoing survey feedback helps.

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Employer Evaluation: How It Can Benefit Your Business
July 4, 2023
Employer Evaluation: How It Can Benefit Your Business

While staff evaluation is a commonly used business approach to assess employee performance, employer evaluation is equally valuable, but less commonly used. We show how it can benefit your business.

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Workplace Wellbeing Surveys: Why They Matter For Your Business
June 21, 2023
Workplace Wellbeing Surveys: Why They Matter For Your Business

Given that just 24% of staff believe that their organisation cares about their wellbeing, the need to better address mental health and wellness at work has never been more vital.

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Mental Health Awareness Week: Managing Anxiety In The Workplace
May 9, 2023
Mental Health Awareness Week: Managing Anxiety In The Workplace

With the impact of workplace anxiety growing all the time, it’s an issue that urgently needs to be addressed. And the statistics support this.

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How To Measure Employee Experience
April 19, 2023
How To Measure Employee Experience

From happier, more engaged and productive employees to improved staff retention. With its many benefits, it’s not hard to see why more organisations are investing in EX.

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Stress Awareness Month: Tips For Tackling Workplace Stress
March 29, 2023
Stress Awareness Month: Tips For Tackling Workplace Stress

With workplace stress increasing, there’s never been a more urgent need to tackle stress within your own workforce. And the statistics back this up:

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Employee Goals: How To Set Questions And Strategies
March 28, 2023
Employee Goals: How To Set Questions And Strategies

While most organisations recognise that their staff are one of their most important assets, getting and maintaining the maximum performance from them can be more challenging.

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Employee Appreciation Day Ideas
February 23, 2023
Employee Appreciation Day Ideas

With this year’s Employee Appreciation Day fast approaching, there’s never been a better time to show your employees that you care.

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Using Employee Surveys To Combat Quiet Quitting
February 20, 2023
Using Employee Surveys To Combat Quiet Quitting

While the ‘Great Resignation’ was one of the major trends to come out of the Covid lockdowns, as more people left their jobs to find improved conditio...

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This Valentine’s Get To The Heart Of What Your Audience Loves
February 10, 2023
This Valentine’s Get To The Heart Of What Your Audience Loves

While many couples will be using the opportunity of Valentine’s Day, to reacquaint themselves with what they most love about one another, it can also...

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Creating An Employee-Centric Culture: Why It Matters
January 20, 2023
Creating An Employee-Centric Culture: Why It Matters

Employees are like the building blocks of an organisation. When they’re happy, engaged, dedicated and working hard, they provide the solid foundations...

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How To Measure Trust
January 3, 2023
How To Measure Trust

As humans we’re hardwired to connect with and trust others. In fact, without this we would struggle to survive as a species, as we rely on trust in or...

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Pulse Survey Best Practices
December 14, 2022
Pulse Survey Best Practices

While the use of employee surveys in the workplace continues to grow, there are times when you just want to check in quickly with your staff on one or...

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How To Measure Employee Motivation
December 5, 2022
How To Measure Employee Motivation

From increased productivity, lower absenteeism and reduced staff turnover levels to improved staff/management relations, a more positive work ethic an...

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How To Measure Employee Loyalty
November 15, 2022
How To Measure Employee Loyalty

Compared with the concepts of employee engagement and job satisfaction, employee loyalty is often one of the least appreciated and explored areas of s...

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How To Measure Employee Satisfaction
October 25, 2022
How To Measure Employee Satisfaction

Every business strives to build a thriving workplace with contented teams and staff, yet many employees are unhappy. In fact, in one of the UK’s large...

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The Future Of Remote Working
July 27, 2022
The Future Of Remote Working

Given the chaos caused by the Covid 19 pandemic over the last two and half years and ongoing uncertainty about future variants, it’s difficult to pred...

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How To Manage The Great Resignation
July 25, 2022
How To Manage The Great Resignation

With almost a fifth of the UK workforce admitting they intend to leave their current job for a new one in the next 12 months, the Great Resignation sh...

Why Employee Experience Matters
July 11, 2022
Why Employee Experience Matters

When it comes to experiences and how they help shape future behaviour, there are similarities between consumers and employees.

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Discretionary Effort In The Workplace
June 28, 2022
Discretionary Effort In The Workplace

Whether a customer or colleague, or maybe a friend or family member. I’m sure you can all recall times when you went the extra mile for someone and yo...

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Diversity and Inclusion Survey Questions for Employees
February 18, 2022
Diversity and Inclusion Survey Questions for Employees

From rewards and recognition to professional development opportunities and leadership from senior managers, there are many things that can influence t...

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Employee Engagement Action Plan Ideas
February 9, 2022
Employee Engagement Action Plan Ideas

When it comes to business success your staff are one of your most crucial assets. Not only through the knowledge and ideas they bring, but in how well...

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