Blog Archive
November 2005
Congratulations to all the award winners at the Personnel Today Awards ceremony held at the Grosvenor House Hotel on 24th November, especially to Compass Group – the biggest winners of the night!
Consultants Towers Perrin have released the results of a new study which finds that a quarter of employees are actively disengaged – but much of this is down to their leaders….
Simon Caulkin writes in The Observer this week that stories permit ‘meaning and memory’. Like mnemonics, stories enable us to absorb and remember incredibly complex detail. Stories have always been part of marketing, but nowadays is an integral part of a brand.
Not sure about the idea of teepees in carparks , but we certainly go along with Daniel Allen’s views on employee engagement today in the Times…
A CEO friend of mine attended a talk the other day on organisational culture.
The speaker recounted the time he and his wife checked into a hotel bedroom. On the pillow was the usual feedback form, but under the section that read ‘Was The Room Cleaned To Your Satisfaction?’ was a hand-written note saying, ‘Please look under the bed – Betty’.
Much to his wife’s amusement the man started scrabbling under the bed, and found, right in the middle, a small card. On it was written: ‘I’ve cleaned under here as as well – Betty’.
The speaker’s theme was ‘Finding The Betty In Your Organisation!’