Posted on: 21 October 2020
We read and hear more and more about where people work, rather than what they are paid, and with COVID-19, restricting where people work, it is a good time to...
Posted on: 16 October 2020
Now is the time to supercharge recognition - why recognition is more important than ever
Employee Experience | Engagement | EVP | Performance Management | Recognition | Reward | Wellbeing
In the age of COVID-19, organisations have quite rightly focused on a number of areas to support employees, including: The recalibration of reward principles pinned to a compelling Employee Value Proposition; Wellbeing,...
Posted on: 25 September 2020
Organisational success is underpinned by the performance of employees; therefore, most organisations operate some form of performance management system, often to the dismay of both managers and employees. So, why...
Posted on: 09 September 2020
“A survivor mentality is emerging in a post COVID-19 world” – Evan Davidge, Total Reward & Wellbeing Consultant at The Wellbeing Leader. There is something Darwinian about the mentality that recovery...
Posted on: 09 September 2020
COVID-19: New thinking versus business/economic reality
Economic and legal environment | Public Sector | Reward | Wellbeing
Preamble Many reward professionals and their advisers are advocating a new post-Covid-19 agenda for reward strategy and practice. The lexicon includes, more compassion, empathy, justice, supported by existing re-inventions of equity,...
Posted on: 14 August 2020
I believe it was Benjamin Franklin who once said that “Failing to plan is planning to fail.” In light of the significant changes COVID-19 has brought to both our working and...
Posted on: 27 April 2020
The employee experience after coronavirus. Return to normal?... OR re-define “normal”?
Culture | Employee Experience | EVP | Reward | Wellbeing
Yes, I admit it. I’m a dog fan. Sadly we have no pooch to keep us company these days, but I remember fondly the days when we did – and...
Posted on: 07 April 2020
Buried in a crisis or creating the future – you may need help!
Economic and legal environment | Organisational Effectiveness
There is no hiding from the fact that this crisis is like no other – in terms of its scale and the ongoing uncertainty about what normality looks like and...
Posted on: 30 March 2020
Managing pay risks during the coronavirus crisis
Economic and legal environment | Employee Experience | EVP | Performance-related pay | Reward | Wellbeing
There is no hiding from the fact that the coronavirus pandemic is impacting many aspects of work and our personal lives. With organisations focused on plans to weather this storm,...
Posted on: 28 February 2020
Employee performance and salaries – Chasing unicorns?
Employee Experience | Engagement | EVP | Performance Management | Performance-related pay | Reward
Pay drives performance. Sounds nice, doesn’t it? At the very least, it sounds all-too-familiar. If I only had a penny for every time I’ve heard this – and another one...
Posted on: 03 January 2020
Weirdos, misfits and the pay question
Employee Experience | Engagement | EVP | Public Sector | Reward
News of Dominic Cummings, senior aide to the Prime Minister, calling for "weirdos and misfits with odd skills" to work in government have raised questions over the role of pay...
Posted on: 18 December 2019
Why incentives are still relevant (but the thinking behind them is not!)
Engagement | Performance Management | Performance-related pay | Reward
At a recent client event we asked for a quick show of hands to respond to the question “Who can think of an incentive plan that worked well?” You could...
