The employee engagement gap

Gallup’s recent State of Work report highlighted an ‘engagement gap’ between the best and the rest (see graph).

Your choices in an unhappy workplace

If you’re one of the 6 in 10 that are not engaged at work (it’s 9 in 10 in the UK!) then you have some choices.

1. Put up with it

2. Change jobs

Love/Hate work?

Do you have a love/hate relationship with work?

I certainly did when I was back in corporate.

I loved the work that I did, it was interesting, challenging, and gave me a sense of achievement.

New words about the workplace

Since I entered the workforce a few decades ago, lots of new words about it have emerged

Stress

Downsizing

The extra mile

Burnout

State of play on the Future Of Work

Is the ‘Future Of Work’ conversation played out?

It’s certainly less intense than it was because a lot of things have settled out.

Here’s my take on what’s DONE, what’s NOT DONE and what could be COMING.

What if you can’t ‘just leave’?

“If it’s a toxic environment, just get out” is advice we often hear.

But what if it’s not that simple.

Changing jobs is not an easy, or even available, option to for many. They have commitment to children and family, they…

CEOs are in a different world of work

The reason CEOs have a different opinion to employees about where and how we should be…

Psycho Boss

Have you ever had a ‘Psycho Boss’?

I was amazed at how much it resonated with people when I talked about my psycho boss at a talk I gave recently. What really got to me was how strongly people felt it still, even when the experience was decades ago.

Sunday Scaries

Do you get the ‘Sunday Scaries’?

Quite a turn of phrase for something so common that 8 out 10 employees experience it.

We used to call it ‘the Sunday blues’, the dawning realisation that tomorrow was a work day and the fun would have to stop soon. The…

The Kids Are Alright

“Companies are worried about the Great Resignation, they should be worried about the Great NEVER apply…” Gary Vaynerchuck

Research shows that 50% of Gen Z want to be entrepreneurs.