Watching the contestants on ITV’s final week of Britain’s Got Talent (BGT) reminded me of one of the aspects of work engagement: energy.  Those who performed well and received praise from the judges happily...

Managers interested in employee engagement could learn a thing or two from Brian the...

Business leaders who believe that ideas from their staff will give them a competitive advantage may do well to sign up to Action for Happiness, the recently launched social change movement aimed at creating...

Two year’s on since the publication of the “MacLeod Report” Engage for Success, surveys suggest that engagement levels in the nation’s workforce remain low.  So should we be welcoming the recent announcement that the...

It’s a truism that people often say one thing and do another.  So when UK consumers say they won’t be influenced by product placement on TV will they be true to their word and...

It may be commonsense that engaged employees “go the extra mile, and this leads to happier customers, increased productivity, greater profitability and more shareholder value”, but according to the HR Employee Engagement Survey, the...

Management Today (MT) quotes the proprietor of the Express, Ok! and channel Five, Richard Desmond as saying “I’d guess a third of my staff love me, a third hate me and a third don’t...

The British retailer, the John Lewis Partnership has a constitutional goal – ‘the happiness of its members’.  This means that it puts the happiness of its 70,000 permanent staff at the centre of everything...

Two recent TV programmes, both aimed at improving children’s learning, shared an intervention to make pupils more alert and engaged.  The intervention was exercise. This set me off thinking about whether exercise could help...

Do you want to have more energy, be more alert and feel more capable?  Well, as Professor Ellen Langer would tell you, you can.  Simply let go of any notions of what’s not possible,...