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Productivity & Profit – The importance of understanding the Total Employee Experience to improve business performance.

A key challenge for many organisations is creating a highly productive workforce and retaining this talent. Research consistently demonstrates that organisations with an engaged and committed workforce have higher productivity and profitability, lower turnover and higher customer satisfaction and retention levels. It is possible for all organisations to achieve this. First, let’s properly understand the

A Sunday Read

I was flicking through the Sunday newspaper yesterday and I was struck by two articles that really resonated. The first was an article by Rose Squires entitled “Fat chance of Olympic future”. It was a piece on Susie O’Neill or Madame Butterfly as she is known amongst swimming circles. It highlighted that many young kids

Optimum Consulting: A New Frontier

Regular readers of our blogs will know that Optimum has recently celebrated our ten year anniversary of business. This was a cause of great happiness and mirth for the company in general and it gave me and my team an opportunity to plan the decade ahead. We have some big plans and I hope to

How Gifted Bosses View Their Employees

Just recently a Client referred me onto an article written by Dale Dauten entitled “How gifted bosses hire and de-hire their way to success”. The article is a very interesting read and one I would recommend to any Manager or employer. There is too much insight to share with you in a simple blog but

Appreciative Inquiry – Are You Appreciating Your Strengths?

I sat with a referee the week before Christmas and we discussed at length the various organisational development tools that are being practiced across businesses today. One which I found particularly interesting, is the AI theory, otherwise known as Appreciative Inquiry. I had never come across this method before, however the more I started reading

Being Proactive

Earlier this week our General Manager asked us to identify two things we were actively going to complete by the end of this week. It was to be an individual goal set by ourselves, noted by our peers and was something to be followed up at the end of the week. Often time’s people can

Cultural Sensitivity: You Never Stop Learning

“The world is getting smaller every day”. Has anybody ever Cuts even PURCHASE levitra side effects was. About better usually cialis generic the ve as. heard this said? The advent of technology has seen globalisation become a real and ever present issue in the world today. People can be contacted instantly in most parts of

Engaging The Long Face. Possibility Or Pipe Dream?

A horse walks into a bar, and the bartender says…… ‘why the long face’? Of all the jokes in the world, this is one which keeps popping up in my mind.   Not because it is any good, but because I am often exposed to situations which remind me of it. What am I talking about?   

Then and Now…..

Is this the toughest recruitment market I’ve seen? I’ve been asked this question a couple of times over the past month by senior candidates and my answer, is no. It is certainly not a rewarding time to be in recruitment when we are competing with a slowing economy, stronger internal recruitment teams and larger agencies