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People join organisations and leave managers, an old saying but sadly, still a reality! I was at David MacLeod’s Guru Group on Employee Engagement last week an [Read more]

It’s always interesting to see how different companies engage staff and how that can tie into the ethos of the company itself - how it becomes an attitude to running a business rather than a box-ticking exercis [Read more]

What a great night was had by all at this year’s RADs! We were there with our clients, Welcome Break, who were thoroughly good company and a delight to take to, what is our [Read more]

Just out of our agency ‘Start the Year’ planning meeting! Lots of debate and exciting things happening in the coming month and everyone up for strengthening our resolve and sharpen [Read more]

It's now just three days until our annual industry awards - The RADs, and we're beginning to get excited. It's a great evening at the Grosvenor Hotel in London and there's always a great host (Michael McIntyr [Read more]

Those clever people at Headstream, our sister agency, have just opened the Social Brands 100 for nominations. This is the second time round for the ranking, which identi [Read more]

Our 10 New Year’s resolutions Don’t think of employees as anything other than people – they really are and they have feelings, expectations and hopes just like you and I Underst [Read more]

Being advocates of the use of social media in recruiting and engaging staff 
we will be following with interest the ongoing constructive dismissal case brought by John Flex [Read more]

The ‘Twelve Days of Christmas’ from the Team at Five by Five People (to be sung to the traditional carol tune) On the first day of Christmas [Read more]

Really interesting insight from TNLT HR blog for businesses with hourly rate staff - its easy to see how your best people can become disengaged. http://www.tlnt.com/2011/ [Read more]

Under headlines of ‘Lloyds Banking Group's culture saps the energy and enthusiasm of even the keenest staff’ the Telegraph suggests one of the causes is ‘an endless cycle of internal [Read more]

Nice post and infographic from my good friend Edward Ferris at Charlesmore Partners Intenational in the States on Cisco's findings 'that young professionals want an open e [Read more]

What a great day at the HR Forum in London this week! It was so good to be able to share our employee engagement work with so many interested people, get great interaction, hear questions and discuss the cha [Read more]

I’m looking forward to meeting lots of people when I speak at the HR Forum event at Savoy Place. The event is a wonderful opportunity for us to shar [Read more]

It is well documented that effective Internal Communications is achieved by understanding what culture exists in an organisation, defining what it should be [Read more]

Today’s press release from the CIPD covers findings from a recent Simplyhealth Absence survey confirming what many of us have long t [Read more]

Blogging in today’s CIPD Update, Alison Gilbertson notes that “some organisations are adopting the principle of simplicity to illuminate what's really important” , and go [Read more]

Earlier in the year I wrote about the Yin and Yang of HR. Ron Thomas’s recent blog ‘HR Transformation: The Old Way of Doing T [Read more]

I’d like to thank our creative lead, Steve Matthews for bring to my attention this week’s Guardian article http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/sep/22/meg-whitman-hewlet [Read more]

How quickly the employee communications canvas is changing; but is it really or is it just a matter of semantics? Surely an engaged workforce is an aligned workfo [Read more]

Here we go again the great British summer holidays: plummeting stock markets, public services in turmoil, soaring utility bills, falling car sales, even travel companies [Read more]

Accenture’s recent report ‘What Executives Really Need to Know about Employee Engagement’ really puts the case that David MacLeod and Nita Clarke identified in 2009. Engaging the workforce really makes a [Read more]

Larry Elliot, writing in today’s Guardian, http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/jun/06/us-economy-decline-recovery-challenges attempts to set out the problems America current [Read more]

Back at my desk after speaking at yesterday’s XperHR conference on Employee Engagement a really well attended event with a wide range of delegates from both public and private sector. Th [Read more]

In their daily Tweet, http://www.xperthr.co.uk/blogs/employment-intelligence/2011/05/xperthr-economic-commentary-ma-1.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter XpertHR tel [Read more]

In his 2006 blog with http://internalcommunications.co.uk/categories.php?id=15 Aniisu K Verghese used concepts of Yin and Yang, originated in anci [Read more]

So next year tuition fees look like averaging out at the top end of the £9,000 per year scale at most Universities. If I was a student taking on this level of d [Read more]

@BBC tells us today that “Online advertising breaks through £4bn barrier” yet we find that companies still find digital to be something ‘new’ when building employee communications. Surely [Read more]

Great, at last, to see a ‘Top 100 Social Brands’ table put together by our good friends at Headstream. As this was fast on the heels of the ‘Sunday Times 100 Best Companies to Work For’ I took the opportu [Read more]

The BBC’s economics editor, Stephanie Flanders, contrasted the differing economic benefits of older and younger employees to the UK’s economy in today’s article ‘Older workers make their mark’. [Read more]

Laid low at home by one of our winter bugs I thought I’d leave being ‘social’ alone for a couple of days and get some rest. Amazingly however the power of social has been even more comp [Read more]

So the new term has started and we are getting used to new class mates, new teachers and our shiny new shoes! OK, its business really and it is serious, but it does feel as if our innate tenacit [Read more]

Last week Wendy, our receptionist and first point of contact with the outside world, celebrated her 20 year anniversary with the company. I say ‘celebrated’ but she insisted that she didn’t want a [Read more]

Last November, we decided to nail our colours to the mast arguing that organisations that invest in engaging their people are more effective and more profitable than those who don’t. It’s als [Read more]

Let’s pretend for a second that a horrible disease has wiped out every social media strategist on the planet. Devastating, I know, but let’s pretend. S [Read more]

We believe that Climate Change is real, but we can still do our bit to help. So a couple of years ago we decided that we’d be carbon neutral by 2 [Read more]

Creatives are like battery hens. Cue howls of self-righteous outrage fuelled by artistic pretensions. It’s OK, I can say it, I’m one of you. You see, it’s our job to gener [Read more]

Yesterday I did something that was a long time coming. I accidentally sent the following tweet from my employer instead of my personal Twitter account: ‘So, buy an [Read more]

Last week we ran a campaign for Brighton & Hove City Council to recruit four strategic directors. Challenging convention is baked into every role. So, the creative dramatised this with th [Read more]

Social networking websites have now firmly established themselves as online power players, commanding the lion’s share of our time spent online. Recent research from Neilson* shows that Facebook is now the top [Read more]

During the run-up to Christmas last year, we worked with Hampshire Constabulary on a rape awareness campaign that was targeted at men aged between [Read more]

There’s not much point positioning ourselves as engagement specialists if we aren’t prepared to practice what we preach. Here are some photos of some of us at a recent in-house workshop, during which we enjoye [Read more]

Five by Five People launch at Yuzu, Southampton Thursday 4th February 2010 With balloons in place, a big cake and champagne at the ready it was set to be a good night for the launch of Five by Five [Read more]

There, we said it. Deep breath, pause. Avoid bottles being thrown at us from many angles. No, we still believe it. Here's why. Social media is disrupting the way we do business; the trad [Read more]

1. Monitor - relevant conversations via keyword searching We use specialist tools to search the internet for carefully constructed keyword a [Read more]