What really is employee experience? Looking beyond even simple break downs, you’ll find a whole cavalcade of different organisational challenge, from integration to siloed working to upskilling and fallout from acquisitions. Also, how do we know that employee experience (EX) works for our people? This was the topic at the heart of our latest breakfast […]

Every year, we look forward to our return to Bishopsgate for Gallagher’s Communications Summit. It’s a wonderful event bringing together a broad church of communicators, HR specialists, and more to delve into the latest challenges, successes, and innovations in the world of internal communications. Hosted by Marc Wright and Jennifer Reischel-Berg with panache and a […]

Imagine this, you have just graduated after three challenging yet rewarding years at university, ready and eager to take on the working world. You are ready to hang up the textbooks, late night studying, the tracksuits and Ugg boots in exchange for early morning commutes, loafers and smart casual. You have been told at school […]

Like salmons swimming upstream, flocks of employer brand practitioners and internal communicators descended on the ExCel venue for this year’s Employee Xperience Expo! Employee experience can mean a million different things, sometimes within the same organisation, it was a great opportunity to think strategically about how to improve retention, efficiency, and engagement and learn from […]

In Talent Acquisition, the focus is almost always on the candidate/recruiter relationship. But before we even get there, there is another relationship which needs tending to – the recruiter and hiring manager relationship. Like a clownfish and an anemone, recruiters and hiring managers need each other, but (to be brutally honest) it’s often the hiring […]

For communicators, the challenges that come with constant change can seem dense and overwhelming. But even when the technology gets more complicated, the most effective strategies were still the simplest ones. As the first snow of the season began to fall, team 106 attended Simply Expo 2024, hosted at etc. venues on Bishopsgate. It was […]

Last Tuesday, I was invited to a Meet & Engage session with Nicola Sullivan about fostering social mobility in your emerging talent hiring. The featured guest was none other than Glen McGowan, Group Head of Emerging Talent at HSBC. I grabbed a coffee, a biscuit, and logged on to listen… Sullivan set the scene by […]

At the recent CES and DAVOS conferences, the talk was of course dominated by AI.  While Meredith Whittaker, President of Signal, recently said on BBC Radio that all this talk is too much hype and threatening privacy, it’s clear that there’s a battle out there for AI and Tech Talent to help all kinds of […]

Today we have access to far more data than ever before. But it still seems a bone of contention about how best to measure employer brand effectiveness. People still talk about impact on retention, when retention is dependent on so many factors, from family choices to salary hikes to ‘just wanting a change’. Surely, it’s […]