Category: Employee Experience

The Winning Personality Traits You Need in Your Team

According to CV-Library’s research, the majority of workers (94.2%) believe that there are key personality traits which make a person more likeable in the workplace. It goes without saying that in every working environment, there will likely be a mix...

Turning Your Support Centre into a Profit Centre

Harry Mowat, UK MD, Greentree discusses how finance teams can help turn cumbersome support centres into profitable ventures. The onus on companies to operate efficiently and effectively is critical in the current unpredictable economic environment. But how can companies optimise every...

Rant & Rave appoint Kenny Bain as Chief Executive Officer

01 February 2017, Warwickshire, Rant & Rave, the UK leader in real-time customer engagement technology that works with half of the FTSE including Barclays, Sky and EasyJet, today announced the appointment of Kenny Bain as its new CEO. Bain, previously Managing...

Employee Authenticity, Engagement and Performance

If you could choose your work colleagues, who would you keep? And who would you lose? “I don’t like John, he never pulls his weight.”  “Me neither. And Sarah, she’s always so distracted – she never finishes anything. “I wish we didn’t have...

UK Businesses Have the Chance to Access £212bn Disability Market

UK business has a golden opportunity to access the £212bn annual disability market through the Government’s Disability Confident scheme, according to disability equality champion Mike Adams OBE. The Chief Executive of not-for-profit organisation Purple says the Government’s re-launch of its Disability...

Four Trends Shaping the UX Recruitment Landscape in 2017

It’s all change in the creative and digital design sector as the big management consultancies, Accenture, McKinsey and Deloitte continue the acquisition trail snapping up boutique creative and design studios on their way. First Heat (chomp), then VeryDay (chomp) followed...

Investing in Employee Development for a Great Working Environment

As Marketing Director for Arden University, I recently had the pleasure of judging the ‘Best Places to Work’ category at this year’s UK Business Awards. There were some fantastic finalists and it was great to see how each company creates...

My Digital Experience from an HR Professional

Whilst I should start by saying I wouldn’t profess to be an HR technology expert, having found myself responsible for implementing a global HR cloud-based system from design and configuration through to data migration, testing and implementation I guess I’ve...

The Importance of Employee’s Workwear Choices during Christmas

1 in 5 Brits will refuse to leave a tip if you look scruffy – Why it’s so important to make the right workwear choices Tipping has always been a grey area in the UK, and the “unwritten rules” that many...

Building Customer-Centricity through Empathy

Being customer-centric is more than building the right design strategy: it means embedding empathy. At Hellon, we talk about the empathy ladder. This ladder has three key milestones: building empathy for the end user of your product, service or experience;...