Woodreed’s MD, Jo opened day one of Engage Employee’s two-day flagship Internal Communications conference in September this year. She began by presenting the case for why investing in employee engagement matters more than ever before. All the data – record vacancy levels of 1 million in the UK and indications that maybe forty percent of... Read More

Charlotte Dahl was the host for the second day of the flagship Internal Communications conference in September this year. To paraphrase Dickens, for Internal Communications, the pandemic was (and arguably still is) ‘perhaps the best of times, it was the worst of times’. We had to become master adapters, changing in response to seemingly endless... Read More

The stuff we thought we’d confined to Room 101 for good is still there, lurking just below the surface in our organisations and institutions. Bullying, coverups, ego-driven bulls in china shops of leaders, it’s all there in varying degrees. It needs to stop and it needs to stop now. Major mental and physical impacts of... Read More

(and a cracking opening from Jo) David MacLeod OBE, the godfather of modern employee engagement, the co-author of the pioneering 2009 ‘MacLeod Report’ into Employee Engagement, co-founder of the Engage for Success movement, visiting professor Cass Business School (can you tell we rate him?) delivered the keynote at the 2021 Employee Engagement Summit. With Jo... Read More

Jo’s delighted to take part in the Charity Finance Group Culture and Good Governance event in February. If you’re in the charity sector it’s a great opportunity to touch base and catch up on the vital role of #culture in your organisation https://cfg.org.uk/CultureandGovernance As part of her contribution Jo wrote a guest blog which you... Read More