A happy workforce is a productive workforce
Real Business: A happy workforce is a productive workforce, but what can you do to put a smile on your employees’ faces?
Having a happy workforce makes sound business sense. Recent survey findings show that those organisations with the most engaged workforces significantly outperformed their peers throughout the recession, despite having also had to restructure and downsize over the past two years.
Makes you think, doesn’t it?
Last week, Wayne Clarke, managing partner of Best Companies, gave a presentation to our top 100 senior managers at our Leadership Forum. Wayne is responsible for compiling the Sunday Times annual survey of the Best 100 Companies To Work For and is a truly inspirational and passionate speaker and entrepreneur.
I met Wayne just over a month ago when I was invited to an Art of Engagement workshop run by his business in a huge warehouse in Milton Keynes. It was a highly innovative, themed, interactive learning event – we actually sat on see-saws, to try to assess the “work/life balance” and “fair deal” for the employees in the case studies we were given!
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Posted: July 2nd, 2010 under Martin Leuw.