Employee Engagement

How to succeed in a challenging Recruitment Market: 5 Essential Insights and Strategies

By Howardco on Feb 16, 2023 in Employee Engagement, Leadership, Wellbeing | 0 comments

There is no doubt that the last 18 months have been challenging when it comes to recruitment. If you have found it easy you are lucky.  A lack of quality applicants, no shows at interviews and longer hiring times can be extremely difficult for business owners and managers wanting to fill important roles. As an experienced HR and recruitment consultancy we have...

How to make well-being your #1 retention strategy in 2023

By Howardco on Nov 7, 2022 in Employee Engagement, Leadership, Wellbeing | 0 comments

Burnout, change fatigue, overwhelm and exhaustion. Are these familiar terms? For the last 2 years we have been reminded to be resilient, adaptable, even pivot to out survive the pandemic. But has this all taken its toll on business owners and their workforce? I think you know the answer. But it’s not just Covid hangover that is impacting workplace well-being. We are...

Is your Culture the reason why your best people will stay or leave?

By Howardco on Oct 6, 2022 in Employee Engagement, Managing People, Team Development | 0 comments

It’s a thought that sends a chill through many business owners and leaders and one that is keeping them awake at night. What if one (or more) of my best people leave and how could I replace them? “Take our 20 best people away and Microsoft would become an unimportant company”. Quote: Bill Gates. Chairman Microsoft Despite a recent  slight easing in the job market we...

Employees are looking for their next job. What can you do to keep them?

By Howardco on Aug 29, 2022 in Employee Engagement, Managing People, Recruitment | 0 comments

It’s an all too familiar story now. In the last month more and more clients have been feeling the pain of losing good people and finding it difficult to replace them. If you are a small to medium business the loss of two or three people can have a significant impact. I have been speaking with Managers and Business Owners regularly about the challenges they are...

If you don’t know, you don’t know.

By Howardco on Jul 29, 2021 in Change Management, Employee Engagement, Managing People | 0 comments

If you don’t know, you don’t know. Why getting feedback is important. We can give and receive feedback on several different levels within an organisation, from strategic company-wide feedback, operational staff or customer surveys, and even down to tactical feedback such as exit interviews. These different forms of feedback help you understand the ‘boots on the...

Resilience and Agility

By Howardco on May 27, 2021 in Employee Engagement | 0 comments

Resilience and agility in the new normal Covid is not over, and it has not gone away. What we have learned in the last 15 months is that resilience and agility are key to business survival in times of ongoing uncertainty. And what we have seen some remarkable examples of businesses that have been able to adapt and thrive in adverse situations.   Resilience...