Peer to peer awards

Peer to peer awards

Some of the things that tend to happen at this time of the year: horrid hangovers, suspect sartorial decisions, weightier waistlines, and for a lot of organisations, annual award ceremonies. The most powerful change we have made to recognising and celebrating our best...
Consistently inconsistent

Consistently inconsistent

The enforced stop that was the pandemic meant that life inertia was halted for a lot of people, giving space for reviews of all sorts of things that may never have had air in the “normal” run of things. Behaviours changed, stopped, or new ones appeared in...
The power of a checklist

The power of a checklist

We are all familiar with the concept of a checklist, your team may already use a checklists to help run your venues, but it is also one of the most effective changes you can make to your own daily routine. A few years ago, after simple things kept falling through the...
Online meetings

Online meetings

Most of us have been involved in an online meeting and they can tend toward the unremarkable end of the (not usually remarkable) meeting scale. The upheaval we are all going through at the moment means we need to up our online meeting game, the trouble is, there are...
It’s the manager

It’s the manager

What role does a manager play in staff engagement? According to the 80 odd years of data analysis on workplaces that Gallup has done says that 70% of the variance in team engagement is determined solely by their direct manager. In short, employees leave managers. I...