How can we connect beyond borders?
Who’s it for: Leaders who want to effectively engage from afar What’s it for: Communicating from a distance
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The Employee Engagement Paradox
Our series of short films exploring ‘The Employee Engagement Paradox’. Despite employee engagement being at an all-time high, performance across businesses overall has plateaued. Renowned Cultural Architect Javier Bajer and People Activation Co-Founder Chris Teague discuss what companies could be doing to create pride in purpose, unleash energy, increase agility and develop camaraderie of their people.
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Activating Our Minds #53
Here are three of the stories from across the world that activated our minds and informed our work this week...
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Employee engagement is dead
After 30 years, Internal Communications and HR professionals could benefit from a fresh approach to activating employees to drive business success, argues Chris Teague. It’s the first article in our new Activate! series that will share new thinking on transforming business through the power of people.
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The Voice inside your head, yeah that one
Who’s it for: Parents and those who lead others. What’s it for: Highlighting the power of personal narratives.
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Change makers, not just communicators.
Effective internal communication is vital to business success, but all too often practitioners have little influence at board level and their role is considered a conduit for communicating the need to change rather than being a catalyst for activating change. In the second article in our Activate! series, we speak to Tracey Collinge - independent consultant and regional volunteer for the Institute of Internal Communications North (IoIC).
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Activating Our Minds #52
Here are three of the stories from across the world that activated our minds and informed our work this week...
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Just what is the purpose of purpose?
Welcome to the third of our Activate! articles, in which we take a look at purpose. Seen as de-rigueur for businesses seeking to engage and retain the future workforce, we scrutinise the actual purpose of purpose and ask: can employees genuinely share the same aspirations as a corporation or has 'purpose' just become empty branding?
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Alive at Work
Who’s it for: Leaders who wish to help others love what they do. What’s it for: Activating the seeking systems to maximise contribution to the success of a business.
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The Power of Camaraderie
Welcome to the fourth in our series of Activate! articles. This time we are looking at camaraderie. We spoke to expert team-builder Chris Brindley about his experience in galvanising individuals into close-knit high-performing teams. Chris was previously Sales Director at British Gas and MD of Natwest. As MD at Metro Bank, he launched the first serious ‘challenger’ banking brand in a generation, with his ‘people model’ at the heart of its successful disruption strategy. He’s now an Elite Sports Business Mentor with the Premier League's Elite Academy Manager Programme, board director of Super League and Chair of the 2021 Rugby League World Cup. Specifically, we spoke about how achieving camaraderie is the nirvana for any leader looking to transform their business through the power of people.
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Activating Our Minds #51
Welcome to the first Friday of a new decade! We are excited about what 2020 will bring for us all, and want to start the year as we mean to carry on by sharing with you the stories that have activated our minds this week!
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Agility: The quest to create value
Welcome to the fifth article in our Activate! series. This month we look at the concept of agility. For us, agility is less a way of working, it's much more a way of thinking that allows people to respond in the most appropriate way to meet customer needs and create value. But in a world where 'agility' has been reduced to a buzzword, how can business leaders unlock its real benefits and create that value? We spoke to Jonathan Tripp - Head of Boehringer Ingelheim's Agile Lyon Innovation Centre of Excellence (ALICE) about the relationship between agility and value - and how changing people's mindsets can fundamentally change business culture for the benefit of everyone.
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