It’s staff appraisal time at Bespoke. This quarter the CEO is seeing a new openness and flow in the conversations. What changed?   “People don’t talk that openly about their feelings at most workplaces”, says Steve Brennan, CEO at UK-based Bespoke. “They talk about tasks and deadlines more than feelings.“ “Our staff appraisals used to be […]

Have you heard of the UK initiative Engage for Success?   Engage for Success: Employee engagement and retention Engage for Success is a government-backed movement raising the profile of the importance of employee engagement in the UK and abroad. In their post, “Using data to improve engagement and retention”, Luke Rees talks about how employees keep job hopping […]

Rethinking how we work The changes we talked about in the first blog have impact on us all. Fewer people around means we must work more productively if wages are to rise. Likewise changes to our life expectancy is likely to result in all of us working longer. The UK government recently announced that people […]

Disrupting Work: Guest blog 1 out of 3 by Chris Gerry, CEO at the SkillsLab. They facilitate cultural change that allows people to develop soft-skills needed to learn, work and lead happy lives. Europe faces significant social and economic challenges in the next decades against a backdrop of global change. There are three that dominate: climate; population and the economy. […]