Feedback from smiley faces: Push a button!   “A smiley system for employees to rate their workdays? …aha, like a smiley machine!” This is a common reply when I explain our Celpax terminal to measure employee morale, real-time.   The Celpax is all about smiley face feedback buttons. Battery-driven, it hangs by the company exit door. When employees leave for […]

The mood meter in action I helped a large nationalised UK company install a series of mood meters. The organisation has 28,000 employees and the part we worked with was concerned with infrastructure planning and building. In a nondescript office block in Victoria, London, 300 people toiled in project teams to help deliver improvements for part […]

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 […]