Go and look at the survey tools offered by the employee engagement industry, and everywhere you’ll see slogans about measuring engagement, and promises of wonderful things happening through “proven” measurement techniques. But hidden behind these extravagant and often outlandish claims are things these companies don’t bother to tell you, andMore …
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Corporate Culture, employee engagement, Employee Experience, Internal Communications, measuring engagement
Real Time Engagement Software Opens Up Communications Between Employees and Management
The Link Between Real Time Engagement and Employee Communication As mentioned in a previous July post, “The Future of Employee Engagement Surveys is Here: Real-Time Data!“, employee engagement is becoming more of a two-way street. This is not surprising, because in all reality, engagement comes down to one thing –More …
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Escape to Engagement Island – What Real Time Data Means to One Organization
Organization Uses Real Time Engagement Data to Improve Charitable Giving The charitable giving market can be a tough one, and it takes a very special kind of employee to work in this industry for very long. It takes a deep understanding of non-profits to commit to helping them raise moniesMore …
What Unhappy and Disconnected Employees are Costing Your Business
Measuring the True Cost of Poor Employee Engagement Have you looked around at your employees lately and notice frowning faces instead of normally content ones? There’s a good chance that low employee engagement could be the cause, and it’s costing your business. According to the Gallup State of the GlobalMore …
“How Do I Define Employee Engagement? Let Me Count The Ways …”
… is something Elizabeth Barrett Browning might have written, had she been an employee engagement consultant instead of a poet. There are dozens, if not hundreds, of definitions proposed or in use. Which is right? Which, indeed. How are we supposed to choose one? We might aim to pick theMore …
What’s The Weather Like In Your Company?
We talk about the weather a lot. Particularly since the threat of climate change became apparent. Many of us are interested in weather records – warmest winters, fastest winds, biggest rainfalls – and we have access to all sorts of metrics that help us to discuss the weather, and helpMore …
What is “Always-On Engagement”?
The Old Way The traditional approach to employee engagement generally consists of three stages, carried out once per year: survey action planning plan execution These are of necessity sequential activities, so the elapsed time for this process can be six months or more, from the initial survey planning to theMore …
Engaging Employees Conference: Optimising Performance, London
Thymometrics are one of a select few organisations that are thrilled to be exhibiting at “The Engaging Employees Conference: Optimising Performance” which takes place on 2nd December 2014 at the Museum of London Docklands in London, United Kingdom. The one day event has a stellar line-up of speakers, see below, whoMore …
Always-On Communications At Red Gate
Since 1999, Red Gate Software has produced ingeniously simple tools for over 500,000 technology professionals worldwide, specialising in MS SQL Server, .NET, and Oracle. Based in the university town of Cambridge, UK, Red Gate’s philosophy is to design highly usable, reliable tools that solve the problems of DBAs and developers.More …
Giving Employee Surveys A Radical Re-Think
Excerpt of a CIPD blog by Hugh Tonks, Thymometrics on July 28, 2014. Read the full article here. “Problems cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.” – Albert Einstein Now and again, it’s good to take a step back and view things from a new angle; looking atMore …