Is the abundance of apps in the ecosystem killing productivity?
Employee experience is a means to an end, not an end in itself. For all the time and attention and money we spend improving every part of the employee journey, from candidate to alumni...
Importance of content targeting in the employee experience
Doesn't it feel great when an experience has been curated just for us, reflecting OUR tastes, interests and needs?
Bonzai Intranet points to Content Targeting as one of "7 Must-Have...
Is it possible to maintain company culture through a merger?
If you've ever been through a merger you know that it's lip service to say that the integration will be a "merger of equals."
Am I OK?
In a new article for Harvard Business Review, author Mike Robbins describes the distinction between RECOGNITION and APPRECIATION.
"In simple terms, recognition is about what people do,"...
Availability.
For all the "A" words that are woven into A+ employee experience - Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere, Any Language, etc - AVAILABILITY deserves to be at the top.
Engagement surveys ask staff:
Money isn't the only, or even the top, form of recognition
I spoke with a Director of HR yesterday who was struggling to ride the wave of an enormous exit of talent.
As they dug into their engagement and exit surveys, employee recognition rose to...
Remotely Engaged
It used to be that you had to be global to be disconnected. But the changing nature of how work gets done - remote work, desk-less workers, satellite offices, etc - has fundamentally...
There's Gold in Them Hills
James Robertson shares a must read on the temptation among communicators to abandon the rust of their intranets for the promise of social and collaboration tools promised in abundance "out...