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Employer branding metrics – are you changing candidates’ perceptions?
Getting an external view of how you are perceived as an employer. It's generally the hardest, and most expensive, part of your insight or...
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Sep 20, 20246 min read


How to measure employer branding
When employers activate their employer brand, they need to know the impact they are having. Not in terms of vanity metrics in terms of...
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Sep 5, 20247 min read


Joy at Work - Ensuring Quality Research
I’ve set out to discover if Joy at Work is important To do so I’ve cashed in 500 quid of YouGov credit to reach a nationally...
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Jul 19, 20245 min read
Bridging the Gap - Measure Communications Effectiveness
The Problem with Measurement Effective measurement continues to be an issue – it continues to be a topic of conversation among employer...
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Jul 5, 20245 min read
Purpose at Work
Purpose – with your organisation Recently I conducted a review of the evidence around purpose at work, and whether it has become more...
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Jun 21, 20244 min read
Working towards EVP, in a more agile way
How to get the value, without the wait. An EVP has more value than you think EVPs are very often thought of as a way to enhance your...
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Jun 7, 20245 min read
Coaching and Mentoring for Employee Listening
You want to listen to your employees, perhaps to improve employee engagement, perhaps to develop your EVP, perhaps to stimulate ideas for...
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Jun 3, 20241 min read
How to develop your employer value proposition
By ensuring you understand the problem you need to solve How to develop your employer value proposition: Before you get to the research…...
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May 24, 20247 min read


How to measure employee engagement
This was perhaps the single most insightful and useful research comments I've ever had. The task: A company proposes to close staff...
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May 20, 20242 min read


People are terrible at following instructions
“Acacia Avenue? Yeah, mate. You wanna take the first right, go about 100 yards then …” Save your breath. They’re nodding. They’re saying...
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May 16, 20242 min read
Employee Engagement Internal Communication
I was recently involved in a tendering process which was hard to respond to, because the need wasn’t clear. They were looking for support...
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May 10, 20245 min read
How do you build a strong Employee Value Proposition?
Creating Your EVP Step 1: Gather Diverse Perspectives You want to hear from lots of people. Some of that may already be captured in...
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May 1, 20245 min read


Employer Branding: Meaning
In just 90 seconds: what employer branding is, and what it isn't, and the power it can have when done well.
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Apr 26, 20241 min read
How to develop an employer branding strategy?
Your EVP is powerless, and your words mean nothing You’ve wasted everyone’s time running that research process You spent all that money,...
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Apr 15, 20241 min read
How to measure employee engagement
Remember, no-one has ever turned to their boss and asked to be more engaged. What we’re really measuring are the conditions to be...
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Apr 12, 20247 min read
If your EVP is a narrative, then what kind of structure is it going to have?
Funnily enough, very often that of a narrative. · Exposition – this is who we are, what we do and how we do it · Challenge...
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Apr 5, 20241 min read
Does your EVP *really* need a refresh?
20h • I'd always urge you to be as cautious of those that say you need to regularly refresh your EVP as those that say the process of...
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Apr 5, 20242 min read
How to measure internal communications
And therefore – by extension – how to improve #internalcommunications too. A couple of important points to set the scene. Firstly,...
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Mar 27, 20248 min read
Employer value proposition definition
What is an employer value proposition? The problem with defining meaning I’ve said before that I’m not the world’s biggest proponent of...
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Mar 14, 20248 min read


It’s the light in the eyes, that’s why I love what I do.
Let’s take a discovery interview, if I ask “why do you work here?”, I know we’re going to cover the non-negotiables: the pay, location,...
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Mar 7, 20241 min read
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