Employee engagement is merely about having happy people in the workplace right…? Wrong! Engaged people can be happy, but happy people are not necessarily engaged. And if they are not engaged your business can be significantly disadvantaged… So, what does engagement mean? There is no single definition, but a common Read More
Do you ever stop to wonder why it is that you just don’t ever seem to see eye to eye with a particular colleague or one of your staff. Or you have found yourself trying to make up ground with a client who you somehow managed to upset, but you Read More
Well, it’s less than you might think! When we employ someone we have expectations of them, and them of us. We believe we set out the bulk of these in a legal ‘contract’ but actually the entire relationship is formed from much more. Increasingly awareness has grown of the concept Read More
We tend to recognise a psychopath as sensational murderers such as Hitler, Ted Bundy, Charles Manson or even the more recent Joanna Denehey; but do we ever stop to consider that right now in our workplace we might share our coffee breaks with people who could potentially be just as Read More
Before July 2013 anyone could freely take an employment dispute into the Employment Tribunal arena, essentially for the price of the stamp needed to register the claim. But with the Tribunal system steadily backing up with more and more claims, the Government stepped in and introduced in July 2013 the Read More