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…
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.
Make lasting change happen
Human beings have evolved to perceive change negatively. We fear it. It’s uncomfortable. It is also becoming the norm in today’s workplace. Change management is complex and there is no single go-to solution. Around 70% of change efforts fail, a statistic that has repeatedly been…
Take Care of Employee Health and Wellbeing
As the heart of every organisation, people are important and so too is their health and wellbeing. Organisations therefore invest a lot of time and resources in employee health and wellbeing programmes, but often find their programmes don’t reach the intended audience or that there…
Can your business afford not to have effective employee engagement?
With much emphasis on ROI when developing significant business changes, the adoption of an employee engagement strategy must also demonstrate its benefit. While the many internal advantages of having engaged employees can be easily rattled off, the outward facing advantages are often overlooked. However, a…
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…
What’s in a name?
Peachy Mondays. It doesn’t exactly scream HR Tech, does it? But what it does reflect is the mentality that underpins everything we do. Peachy Mondays is an employee feedback tool designed to give employees a single familiar interface and to give employers, and their HR…
Case Study – Brussels Airlines
Background Brussels Airlines is a young mobile airline on the cutting edge of exploration. Starting in 2001, the company expanded its reach exponentially as it now flies to New York, Washington and Mumbai, as well as being a leading airline to Africa. As Brussels Airlines…
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,…