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Employee Engagement is Good For Business
Employee Engagement is a term that is thrown around, but what does it mean? Put simply, employee engagement occurs when an employee feels proud about the firm in which they work, they feel fully involved and they feel empowered to make decisions. It appears simple to understand that a motivated employee is a more productive employee. However not all firms engage their staff? Why is that?
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Innovation and the Art of Coffee Making
Innovation in all firms is essential. It allows the firm to maintain competitive advantage by evolving its products and services to better meet customer needs and grow market share. People innovate. So how does an SME principal achieve an environment of continuous innovation by staff to assure his or her firm’s future? This blog addresses the attributes needed to assure innovation. It starts by setting out a model for innovation, using the coffee-making baristas improving espresso to espresso’ at Costa as an example. It discusses planned innovation versus spontaneous innovation. And it ends by laying out the six Creative Enablers needed in all firms. Continue reading →
On Virtual Firms
We’re working with a Sussex firm that is coming to the end of its lease on 2,500 square feet of office, meeting and server space. It’s at a fork in its corporate development. Many of its staff live up to 100 miles from the office and work on client sites and at home from time to time. So should it now go ‘virtual’, and embrace the ‘cloud’ to reduce costs and improve the employee experience? Should it let the lease lapse and go completely ‘virtual’?
What’s in a contract?
Every employee in every firm in the land must be issued with the terms and conditions of their employment by their employer. There are specific things the T’s and C’s must contain and the statement must be offered to the employee within 2 months of the start of the employment. The terms and conditions are the bare minimum of details that form the basis of the employment contract between the two parties.
In reality most employers send a document containing the T’s and C’s out with the employment offer. Mostly too, they are discussed to some degree at interview.
But what’s in a contract? Why does a contract matter and is it really any more than a piece of paper that is only relied on when the parties fall out?
