Maybe you’re wondering whether or not you have an engaged workforce. Maybe you’re already on the path to increasing employee engagement and your efforts are working. Whether you’re a Chief Executive, a senior leader or an HR Director, it’s certainly wise to have employee engagement high on your agenda because it brings substantial business benefits. But you won’t be alone if you sometimes wonder if your efforts are really paying off. Achieving the rewards of employee engagement often means a long ...

Are you so busy looking at ways to increase employee engagement that you’re missing the causes of disengagement amongst engineers in your organisation? If you are, you aren’t alone! As human beings, we’re hard-wired to exclude important matters as soon as we focus on something else. It can be easy to focus on increasing employee engagement scores and yet forget to make the actual change that will increase these. In this post I highlight seven risks that Chief Executives, HR Directors and ...

What can you, as a senior leader, do to increase employee engagement in your business? If you’re anything like the chief executives, directors and senior leaders I meet on a daily basis, this question is high on your agenda. And rightly so, because employee engagement – or its absence – is having a massive impact on your organisation’s success. So, what can you do to engage your people? Here are four sure-fire methods that any senior leader can implement. These are basic – you ...

Should you invest in improving employee engagement? What’s in it for your organisation?  What will it cost you to improve it?   And, most importantly, what will it cost you NOT to do so? This is a conversation I have with many Chief Executives in the engineering sector. Efforts to build employee engagement are most successful when they’re led from the top, and that takes time and energy – time and energy that Chief Executives don’t immediately have to spare. ...

What do BAE Systems, Toyota and Babcock Marine have in common?  Well, apart from being in broadly related sectors,  all three are noted for having high employee engagement. They’re not alone in seeking to increase their business success through engaging their employees.  This is one of the most common challenges that Chief Executives in the engineering sector ask for our help in tackling. Specifically relevant to this blog is a particular challenge that these Chief Executives bring to us – how to convince the ...

 Are you an HR Director with a lead role in consolidating a new corporate culture following merger or acquisition in your engineering business? Consolidating two separate cultures into one is as important in enabling the success of the new organisation as aligning IT systems, financial processes or senior leadership teams. When you fail to consolidate the corporate culture, different norms, behaviours and habits will pull people in different directions, wasting energy and reducing clarity of focus. (More on this here.) So, ...