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We are looking to introduce a 'Training champions' group within our business to help us embed the learning culture and open up a two way feedback opportunity after some quite big changes to the L&D team offer and the team members.
We are hoping that
Read more…At DPG on Monday, we had a theme day - as you can imagine the theme was Easter. And why not?
We held nominations for the 'Good egg of the Day'.
We held an 'Easter Eggheads' quiz.
We had an Easter themed selfie contest
There was an 'Eggstravaganza Lun
Read more…One of my main projects in my new role is to improve the onboarding process. The experience employees have in their first 3 months at a company determine how long they are likely to work there for.
What do you think are the key things that need to be
Read more…Love is in the air!!!
While some of us spent last night with our loved ones, and some with our friends, and some even just sat in with a cuppa tea (after all it was a Wednesday) the talk of love has been filling the office this week, as we all celeb
Read more…With the Winter Olympics starting tonight, let’s use this opportunity to encourage colleagues to work in teams and compete in the Office Olympics. I came across an article which shares some great activities and goes into more details around why they
Read more…Hi all.
I was hoping for some help with some research I'm doing. If money was no object and you wanted to replace your engagement survey with something totally different, what would it be? (Think not metric focused, but behavioural and attitude focuse
Read more…Hi all,
I have been asked to create a communication plan for the rollout of our HRIS and Learning Management System.
Does anyone have a case study that they would be willing to share that demonstrates some of the key ingredients to getting this right?
Read more…I have recently been looking at ways in which I can develop my knowledge further after completing my LDP programme. I struggled at first using the usual excuses like working full time, Christmas shopping and attending the festive parties.
Then I fou
Read more…'Remote work is here and it's revolutionising the way we work' according to Trello who recently released a great guide on the 'Best Advice for Remote Teams Success'.
I wanted to share this with you, but deciding where to post this was a tough choice.
Read more…It is that time of year when the best TV shows come on, the trees grow bare and the Christmas songs take over the radio.
But this time of year also brings darker days, flu season and workloads that are monstrous. It is the Winter Blues!
We all need
Read more…The festive season is fast approaching, the Christmas songs have started, and the shops are filled with decorations, so maybe it’s time to think about how to reward and incentivise your employees over the Christmas period.
Let’s think about why you m
Read more…Hi, in a few weeks time I have a brainstorming meeting with my peeps at HR and the topic will be on employee engagement and how can we be better at it!
Is there anything that you can share, for instance what your organisation currently does or somethi
Read more…How many emails do you receive in a day? Well in 2015 the average worker received 122 emails per working day…
Emails really do have a bad name, they easily get missed, or misunderstood, they are filled with typos and grammar mistakes and we reply to
Read more…When life throws you an obstacle, how do you react? Are you willing to learn about how to overcome it, or do you dig your heels in and stick to your guns?
The way you react to these obstacles defines if you are open-minded or closed-minded.
Closed-mi
Read more…Jacob Morgan, a best selling author and keynote speaker has explored the concept of employee experience in his new book. This infographic below has a high level overview of employee experience and how it differs from employee engagement.
If this is
Read more…Hi fellow DPG'ers,
Working for an outdoor marketing company (that specialises in advertising on billboards and electronic posters) I'm currently looking at implementing an Out of Hours & On Call policy which will cover not only IT but the needs of th
Read more…Hi
I am involved as part of a large project focusing on recruitment of 100+ IT positions.
This project is very much early days and I think it's important to assess and evaluate how the process is working. I am looking for ideas on the sorts of question
Read more…You would hope that these days, it is possible for leaders to drive results at the same time as building engaged teams. But a recent report by Harvard Business Review indicates there is a large percentage of leaders failing to do both. They examined
I recently came across this article on my HR toolkit by Tim Scott, discussing social media in the workplace.
The article discusses how your employees could be your biggest social advocates – if you encourage them and through allowing them to use soci
Read more…We’re hot, we’re bothered and we need a way too cool down!!
This week’s hot weather is really taking its toll on us office workers, the air con is just not cool enough and we are longing to be outside catching a tan.
One way we have survived this wee
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