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Lessons about people and profit: A Ferris wheel owner’s experience
Imagine for a minute that you make a living by owning and running a Ferris wheel at a fairground... You spend your days competing against other fairground ride owners to get visitors to ride your Ferris wheel. For hours on end, you're shouting into the crowd until...
Why outsource your people experience work?
From experience we’ve found that, if employee / people experience is someone’s side project, progress and change can be slow – other tasks take priority, action is sporadic and as a result, your people don’t feel like they’re listened to and eventually stop...
The benefits of optimising your employee experience
In Deloitte's 2019 Global Human Capital Trends report, 84% of survey respondents rated employee experience as important, with 28% identifying it as one of the three most urgent issues facing their organisation. 94% of employers in Willis Towers Watson's 2021 Employee...
The hidden value in interviewing new employees about their onboarding experience
Interviewing your new employees about their onboarding experience is about more than simply understanding their experience. It also builds a strong foundation for your work in improving overall employee engagement and reducing employee turnover. In this article, I...
You’ve just started using Officevibe to measure employee engagement … now what?
Congratulations! By using Officevibe to measure and track employee engagement, you’ve taken a positive step towards improving your employee’s experience and building a better agency for your employees to work for (and your clients to work with). You’ve given your...
The success of your employee engagement survey depends on how you – not your employees – respond
Your employee engagement survey should be viewed as part of an ongoing dialogue. A dialogue in which the business leader’s role can not be underestimated.
Why now is the ideal time to introduce candidate experience surveys into your recruitment strategy
The UK unemployment rate is 4.8% (at the time of writing) and redundancies have hit a record high. Meaning around 1.62 million people are currently out of work. And research from King’s Business School suggests 16.6 million more jobs are potentially at risk. So if...
Lessons about company culture: A Ferris wheel owner’s experience
Imagine for a minute that you make a living by owning and running a Ferris wheel at a fairground… As visitors walk around the fairground, they are met with a cacophony of different sights, sounds and experiences. Very quickly, they are able to assess which rides are,...
Lessons about employee offboarding: A Ferris wheel owner’s experience
Imagine for a minute that you make a living by owning and running a Ferris wheel at a fairground… Unfortunately, your time together has come to an end. Maybe it’s the end of the day and time to go home. Maybe they’ve been tempted by another ride. Maybe they just...
Lessons about employee experience: A Ferris wheel owner’s experience
Imagine for a minute that you make a living by owning and running a Ferris wheel at a fairground… And they’re off. They’re on their way climbing up the Ferris wheel on their first rotation. Everything is new to them, the sights, the sounds, the sensations. Any nerves...
Lessons about employee onboarding: A Ferris wheel owner’s experience
Imagine for a minute that you make a living by owning and running a Ferris wheel at a fairground… Hurray! The candidate has got to the front of the line, the next available cab is theirs. They’ve invested a lot of time and effort in this and now it’s time for them to...
Lessons about recruitment: A Ferris wheel owner’s experience
Imagine for a minute that you make a living by owning and running a Ferris wheel at a fairground… Like all visitors to the fairground, when they first arrive, potential recruits are looking to find out more about why they should ride your ride. They’re scoping it out,...
