Leaders play a powerful role. What leaders pay attention to, what they monitor, what they reward, what they talk about, how they communicate to staff what it is that’s valued in the organisation, i.e. the culture.  So, it’s really important that leaders embody compassion in their leadership, and that means behaviours. Professor Michael West. Woodreed... Read More

The Bank of England is predicting the UK is in for a recession that could last two years. Keeping your people engaged is even more pressing in times of economic uncertainty. As Woodreed’s MD, Jo Moffatt, said in a recent article for the Times: Employee engagement doesn’t make up for poor business decisions or low... Read More

And how to shape and maintain a culture of organisational integrity Woodreed’s Creative Planning Director Charlotte Dahl had her own business bucket list moment when she interviewed the CEO of First Direct, Chris Pitt. It was part of an Engage for Success event focusing on organisational integrity, the 4th Enabler of Engagement, meaning the values... Read More

Toxic cultures are making the headlines AGAIN. 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, cover-ups, ego-driven bulls in china shops of leaders. It’s all there in varying degrees. BrewDog, the Met, Mid Staffs NHS. BBC with Savile... Read More

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