Liz Bryant, Consultant at The Team, discusses her top three tips for businesses to get the most out of their communication spend. Another day at the coalface and another brief for colleague […]
Did you know that 75% of employees are not desk-workers? 61 million people in the US are Gen Z (more than Gen X). 15% of the population in Europe are Gen Z […]
It is Mental Health Awareness Week 2018 and this year’s theme is stress. In the second of a two-part blog, we look at three ways businesses can start addressing workplace stress. In […]
It is Mental Health Awareness Week 2018 and this year’s theme is stress. In the first of a two-part blog, we look at how organisations can effectively address stress at work to […]
Leadership is about looking after those around you, standing together through the tough times. Our Creative Lead Anthony Coombes shares his experience on adversity in the workplace, creative leadership, and thriving in […]
A merger or acquisition can often be a clash of the cultures. Cliff Ettridge discusses his three tips for keeping employees focused while going through an M&A. Keeping employees focused during a […]
April marks the deadline for private sector companies to formally report their employee gender pay gap. With finance and insurance companies reporting a gender pay gap of more than 18%, companies like […]
This article looks at three tips for organisations to follow in order to turn around a toxic brand or a brand that is faced with a crisis. I’ve worked with a few […]
The role of employees in seeing a brand through the tough times is invaluable. Cliff Ettridge looks at the recent Oxfam brand crisis, his time working at The Body Shop and how […]
Studies have shown that workplace design can help empower people and transform business. Office spaces can be used as tools to stimulate, engage and promote collaboration by fusing business goals with design […]
Hands up – I have never worked in a large corporate organisation. But I have been on the inside of many as an Employee Engagement Consultant. And time and again similar themes […]
Discussions around the boardroom table regularly feature, in some form, how the business or organisation can shake off the shackles of legacy issues and system constraints to start thinking like a start-up. […]
When it comes to segmentation, marketers are brilliant in targeting content at customer types, but not so good when it comes to employee engagement. Internal campaigns are still built around hierarchies rather […]
I recently watched the brilliant Margaret Heffernan’s Ted Talk: Forget the pecking order at work. Margaret talks eloquently about the value and productivity benefits of social capital – the bonds between colleagues […]
As part of Workplace Week I visited the Aviva Digital Garage in Hoxton Square, London to see how they are shaping the workplace of the future to drive digital innovation and attract […]
In A new era of charity public engagement Dan Dufour explored the changing landscape for communicating with customers and supporters. This piece will explore the changing expectations of your employees and how […]
High-performing teams are best constructed from a balance of personality types. And, if you want to know how to communicate with your people, then it is good to know more about how […]
Strategy communications to your employees can often prove to be some of the most challenging communications. It often brings competing agendas and ideas at the heart of a leadership team to the […]
Having had a wonderful, but early-in-the-year holiday, I’m now in the position of envying all my co-workers as they sign off for their respective Summer breaks. This also means I’m in the […]
“People build brands and brands build businesses” says The Team’s Cliff Ettridge, and yet every year hundreds of millions of pounds are wasted on employee engagement programmes. How should you spend your […]
Our workplace has just started the process of embracing more agile ways of working. That includes hot desking, working in smaller more agile teams and ridding the workplace of paper. However, with […]
We’ve been working with a number of clients on change communications campaigns to support cultural change inside IT functions and inside businesses seeking to adopt more of a digital mindset. Technology functions […]
Download free e-book ‘How Good Is Your Brand Purpose?’ My first boss taught me the importance of Purpose. She was a determined woman who taught me that Purpose is multi-faceted. It’s owned […]
Download Future Workplace e-book “I’ll think about all this when the transformation is finished…”. I hear this a lot at the moment when I’m speaking to clients and their employees. There […]
Download free e-book ‘How Good Is Your Brand Purpose?’ Brands with Purpose have become a phenomenon in the 21st century, following the good pathways set by the likes of Unilever, Boots and […]
Scope’s ambition of becoming the UK’s leading disability charity to achieve everyday equality for all 13 million disabled people has recently inspired the design students at Nottingham Trent University. We enlisted the students […]
The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are aimed at making sustainable business the operational normal. Outlined and in effect as of 2016, the 17 goals address poverty, the environment and economic prosperity. In order […]
The inter generational marketing gap is widening. That’s a statement we hear all the time, and, on the surface, it would appear to be self-evident. Boomers are still working and spending, while […]
Download Future Workplace e-book Let’s stop trying to engage people. There, I said it. I work in the employee engagement team and for this this blog I may indeed get my P45. […]
People build brands and brands build businesses, says The Team’s employee engagement expert, Cliff Ettridge. The challenge is seeing both sides of the brand coin and getting it right for employees AND customers. […]
Liz Bryant 
Cliff Ettridge 
Seamour Rathore 
Anthony Coombes 
Bob Wheller 
Sarah Martzloff 
Jess Hardy 
Tracy de l'Orme 
Sally Tarbit