Tag: Employee development

Happy first day of work – improve your employee onboarding experience

Ensuring a happy first day of work for a new employee is much more important than many organisations would ever imagine. According to recent studies, the employee onboarding experience is crucial for long-term satisfaction and optimal performance, yet many brands...

Bringing emotional culture to the workplace: an interview with Jeremy Dean

Psychologist John D. Mayer explains that emotional intelligence is the ability to accurately perceive your own and others’ emotions and to understand the signals the feelings send about relationships. Is this something we should learn to do at work? I...

Your guide to employee engagement and organizational change

In the past thirty years, plenty of research was conducted around the factors impacting employee engagement and organizational change. According to the recent research by Gallup, almost 85% of employees worldwide are still not engaged at work. We believe it’s...

Build flexible work culture to enable mental well being

The global pandemic has affected attitudes toward work-life balance and introduced flexible work culture. Research from EY uncovered that almost half of the interviewed employees would leave their current jobs if they were not given flexible working opportunities. Moreover, nine...

The future of work: An interview with Jacob Morgan

Over the past year or so, the concepts of leadership awareness, emotional intelligence, and employee mental health became a central topic for EX and HR professionals worldwide. We saw first-hand how COVID-19 and other social events around diversity and inclusion...

Prioritizing employee experience for long-term success

Customer loyalty is an increasingly important commodity. KPMG has run a survey on the topic, interviewing consumers across 20 different states in the world. More than half of them say they would remain loyal to the favourite brand after a bad...

Gamification: employee retention strategies in customer service

It’s no secret that employee retention is one of the largest operational issues facing companies around the world. From profitability to workplace morale and service quality, a high staff turnover rate can be detrimental to all aspects of a business. As...

The True Cost of Putting Your People Second

“We are in unprecedented times!” That is the declaration that I have heard over and over for several months now, and it is usually the start of an announcement about cutbacks, site closures, and redundancies. In many aspects, we are in unprecedented...

Diversity and inclusion in CX

A lot is written about diversity and inclusion in CX in recent times, but not merely enough. In my opinion, there are two sides to the diversity ‘coin’ and, when it comes to the contact centre, inclusion is equally important –...

Tips for Perfecting Your Virtual Recruitment Process

Hannah Louise Cox is Executive Search Consultant at Douglas Jackson and a Judge at the UK Digital Experience Awards 2020. Read about Hannah’s experience at last year’s UK DXA. Times have certainly changed in these last few months and we are living...