Category: Employee Experience

Don’t Make These Five Staff Training Mistakes

Many companies assume that investments in sales training will increase sales productivity, and because the sales team is on the front line of revenue and profit, it seems intuitive that improving their skills would have a positive, immediate, and direct...

The Power of Asking Why

At November’s Lisbon Web Summit, SurveyMonkey CEO, Zander Lurie presented a keynote speech on ‘The Power of Asking Why’. Zander revealed SurveyMonkey’s latest research on how curiosity is driving business innovation and why curiosity is the next big thing for leaders...

GP Circles: A New Model of Collective Leadership

The growing shortage of GPs and cuts in funding following the removal of the Minimum Practice Income Guarantee in 2014 provoked a big increase in workload at General Practices across the country. The problem was compounded at Jubilee Street Practice in...

British Workers Sceptical of Embracing AI

Anticipation, scepticism, and fear are holding more Brits than Americans back from embracing Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the workplace, according to a new study by CITE Research for SugarCRM. The research on business executives in the US and UK reveals that the...

Employees ‘Embarrassed’ by Starting Salaries

Satsuma Lender has conducted a survey showing almost half of graduates (46 percent) are embarrassed by their current salary.  Nearly 500 graduates were quizzed, and Satsuma compared what they expected their salary to be and what their actual salary is based...

Survey Reveals Fears Among European Talent Leaders

A survey of 400 talent leaders in seven European countries has highlighted 42 percent of talent leaders think the shortage of specific skills is the biggest challenge facing their talent acquisition strategy, which is affecting productivity and profit. 29 percent of...

Brewdog: How Beer Trailblazers Keep Employees Happy in the Doghouse

In 2007, James Watt and Martin Dickie teamed up in a bid to rid the world of bland, monolithic beer and they started home brewing in their garage. BrewDog was born, with the aim to revolutionise the beer industry and...

The Human League: Perry Timms’ HR Model Set to Revolutinise Business

Most would agree that running a successful business requires investing in, and taking care of, employees, and doing that is next to impossible without Human Resources. The composite professionals of a good HR team are the bridge between staff and management,...

Survey Reveals Barriers to Better Customer Service in UK Public Sector

Budget, reduced staff numbers, and barriers to innovation are the biggest challenges to improving customer service in the public sector according to new research. YPO, the UK’s largest public sector buying organisation and one of only a handful of public bodies...

The Four Pillars of Employee Experience Success

In our personal lives we’re used to giving and receiving instant feedback. Whether a like on an Instagram photo, retweet of a Twitter post, or a reaction on a Facebook status, we have grown accustomed to receiving real-time feedback. Yet...