#EmployeeEngagement

Uncomfortable Conversations in the Workplace

There are two opposing forces in the workplace when it comes to difficult conversations. The first is a version of our individual will to...

Employee engagement's missing ingredient

Does Employee Engagement Work?! Employee engagement has hovered at around 33% for many years now. So many people are working at it, so...

Why Workplace Communication Fails

It's My Way or the Highway A couple of years ago, I was training a group of employees who were about to go through a restructure. One of...

How to Speak to Senior Managers about Change

Men make their own history, but not under circumstances of their own choosing. Change, by its very nature, is hard for most people. So...

Conversation with David ZInger

I had a conversation with David Zinger back in 2012. If you’d like to hear it, it’s here: Employee Engagement and Anthropology: A...

Short-Term and Long-Term Fairness

It's Not Fair Recently, the guttering on the flat above ours has become obstructed. My husband contacted our upstairs neighbour to let...

Fairness and Information & Consultation

Overcoming Resistance to Best Practice Often, when I enter a room of employee forum representatives who I'm going to be training on Best...

What My Mother Taught Me About Employee Engagement

I remember the first job that really engaged me. My mother was a bookkeeper, and she often worked from home. She would clear the dining...

Employee engagement – what’s anthropology got to do with it?

“You’re a – what?!” - The response I often get when I tell people that I’m an anthropologist is: “do you dig up dinosaurs?” Yet, there...