Fostering trust through conversations: The Dundee and Angus College story
Background In the academic year 2014-15, Abi Mawhirt, then head of organisational development at Dundee and Angus College, recognised the need to ask all staff or specific cohorts for views and opinions, but they didn’t have a mechanism. The challenge arose in the recently merged…
Flying higher with employee feedback: The Brussels Airlines story
Internal Communication Manager Ilse Verhelst and her HR colleagues at Brussels Airlines knew they had to improve how they listened to, and engaged with their worldwide employees – especially those with limited connectivity because of their role or location. Brussels Airlines is the home carrier…
Leveraging Leavers: Let’s stay friends
Losing a valued employee costs dearly, but there’s a lot that we can learn from them – here we share four reasons why we believe it’s important to stay friends.
Peachy Mondays release new FREE Attitudes to Work Survey
A dedicated Attitudes to Work Survey is being offered free of charge to help employers rapidly understand how employees feel about new ways of working post-pandemic and post-furlough.
6 Practical tips for remote working
Enforced remote working means that employers need to listen more. Employees will have concerns; for their family and friends, their own health, their job. Now is the time to keep employees connected to the organisation and each other. The COVID-19 pandemic has forced organisations to…
The 3 pillars of Action-Oriented Employee Feedback
The way to implement change isn’t just by conducting a survey, it’s taking action with what you’ve learnt. When organisations want to make a difference, to improve how they do things, they often reach out and gather data and opinions to inform their decisions. But…
Employee feedback: Lessons from democracy
‘Don’t ask questions unless you’re prepared to deal with the answers’ That’s what we always recommend to clients. The political events of late, including Brexit, President Trump and the UK General Election, have shown us that when you ask the people for their opinion,…
Should Internal Communications take over Employee Engagement?
I was interested to read one of the topics at the upcoming Internal Communications Conference, “How Internal Communication is taking over the Employee Engagement role from HR” because, although we often initially speak to HR Directors at Peachy Mondays, our main point of contact is…