There are many organisations that have now fully embraced the remote working approach, allowing employees to choose where they would work best. But with work relegated to video calls and emails, what happens to the workplace culture?
There are many organisations that have now fully embraced the remote working approach, allowing employees to choose where they would work best. But with work relegated to video calls and emails, what happens to the workplace culture?
It's easy to think that within larger organisations, people have greater access to talent development. How is a small to medium sized business meant to develop their teams, when they lack the budgets some of the larger organisations have?
Everything we accepted as being part of our workplace culture seems to have disappeared overnight with employees across many parts of the world working from home. How have people behaved during this pandemic? How well were your values represented?
Whilst many of us can feel a little down during the dark winter days, for some, this is a particularly emotional time. Seasonal Affective Disorder is a form of depression, but often it can be dimissed as just feeling a little down because it's dark and cold outside.
Every organisation is going through huge change, partly driven by the pace of technology, and partly by the need to stay ahead of the competition. One would think that with so much change happening and so often, organisations would have become experts at change management. The failure rate of change programmes tells a completely different story and this is often because a crtiical step that is often missed.
Despite millions being spent around the world on employee engagement surveys and the huge focus on action planning, it's clear something is getting in the way of achieivng transformational engagement. We often end up asking questions in surveys that allow us to have benchmarked results, but did we ever stop to ask if these questions are the most pressing concerns on the minds' of employees?
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