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Getting to the Heart of Employment Engagement It is vitally important to understand how engaged your employees are. This doesn’t just help with the retention and attraction of the best people, it also underpins service delivery, customer retention and profitability. According to Gallup’s State of the Global Workplace report, a staggering 85% of employees are either not engaged or are actively disengaged, a hugely worrying statistic! When people are engaged, they are happier

How to Stay Proactive with your Job Search How to Stay Proactive with your Job Search If you’ve have been looking to change jobs for a while, without success, you are probably at the point of feeling quite disheartened. Even more so if you are applying for jobs and not even getting acknowledgements of your applications. For some it can even get to the stage where you realise that you’re applying for jobs that you don’t really want! It is easy to let your head drop and thi

Gender Equality – Are We Really Making Enough Progress? “There aren't that many women with the right credentials and depth of experience to sit on the board - the issues covered are extremely complex" "Most women don't want the hassle or pressure of sitting on a board" "My other board colleagues wouldn't want to appoint a woman on our board" "All the 'good' women have already been snapped up" "We have one woman already on the board, so we are done - it is someone else's turn"