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Edinburgh-based not-for-profit recruitment agency AAI EmployAbility has partnered with employee engagement and wellbeing company Trickle to offer its feedback app to clients seeking to improve their team’s diversity, equity and inclusion.
An Edinburgh employee engagement and wellbeing tool will be able to share its technology with the customers of one of the world’s largest IT services firms.
Trickle, an employee-engagement app developer, has announced Amanda Kerley as Chief Operating Officer.
https://www.digit.fyi/employee-engagement-app-trickle-gets-new-coo-appointment/
Just ask Brewdog or Ted Baker, both well-known consumer brands who made headlines when former employees decided to speak up publicly, in numbers, against the negative culture and way they were treated by those organisations.
Trickle is on track to further build on a strong year of growth in 2020, as the workplace engagement specialist launches an app focused on the day-to-day wellbeing of employees, which is being used by doctors and other NHS frontline workers in the face of Covid-19.
A collaboration between Trickle and a team of researchers led by the University of Aberdeen has produced a new wellbeing feature called ‘How Was Your Day’. Its purpose is to improve the wellbeing of NHS frontline workers and to help them cope with the pressures of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.
Trickle has been named one of the five early-stage Scottish tech companies selected to represent Scotland in Tech Nation’s prestigious Rising Stars 3.0 competition, a major event designed to showcase the UK’s top tech talent.
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Amiqus interviews Paul Reid CEO at Trickle, Sorcha Lorimer founder of Trace, and Colin Hewit CEO at Float about what gives their work purpose and keeps their teams happy.
Trickle’s article on how to support and boost employee wellbeing and help businesses thrive during the pandemic was recently featured in Open Access Government, a digital publication that provides in-depth perspective on key public policy areas from across the globe.
Trickle CEO Paul Reid speaks to The Scotsman about the roll out of Trickle to a number of NHS regional boards in Scotland – including NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde and NHS Forth Valley.
According to the Centre for Creative Leadership, a more empathetic leader will inspire a better performing team. Click for full article.
A study finds, people who feel as though they belong at work, are 50% less likely to quit. Click to read full article.
“The global aggregate from Gallup data collected in 2014, 2015 and 2016 across 155 countries shows that just 15% of employees worldwide are engaged at work (slide 25) … and 10% are actively disengaged … businesses must recognise that an organisations vitality and capacity for organic growth is tied to everyday experiences of its employees.”.
After winning Challenge 8 of CivTech 4, Trickle will work with West Dunbartonshire Council on their Employee Engagement.
Trickle talks to The Herald about their employee engagement solution and their recent investment round.
Trickle is already winning business across the commercial and public sectors, with recent client wins and assignments including ScottishPower, the Scottish Government and Disclosure Scotland.
“Numerous studies have concluded that for people with satisfactory salaries, some nonfinancial motivators are more effective than extra cash in building long-term employee engagement.”.
“With 71% of employees saying they’re open to leaving their jobs, employee engagement has become a strategic imperative for leaders.”
“Technological advancements and digital transformation are providing leaders and managers opportunities to tackle some of the workplace’s most challenging and important initiatives: culture and engagement being at the top of the list.”.
“Every company wants leaders who inspire and engage their colleagues. But surprisingly few build an explicit and robust inspirational component into their leadership development programs.”.
When it comes to ROI, employee engagement is an integral part of driving and maximising your revenue. One study found that organisations with engaged employees outperform those with low engagement by 202%.
Discussions on how to determine the cost of turnover inevitably turn to, “It’s complicated”. Attempts to standardise the measurement of turnover have been unsuccessful because of the nuances of industry, employee life cycles, and lack of a common standard. However, the bottom line is that it is expensive.
“We are, at our most primal, creatures of habit. We’re often struggling to incorporate new changes into our routines – no matter their benefits … this begs the question: how can leaders override this biological hard-wiring to implement the change necessary for their organisation?”.
“Psychologically safe conversations help people develop intrinsic motivation. In other words, they do things out of a sense of personal importance as opposed to compliance.”.
“Culture is more important than vision. Some leaders have great vision, but have created a toxic culture where that vision will never happen.” Phil Cooke.
“The employees who had used the social tool became 31% more likely to find co-workers with expertise relevant to meeting job goals. Those employees also became 88% more likely to accurately identify who could put them in contact with the right experts.”.
https://hbr.org/2017/11/what-managers-need-to-know-about-social-tools
“Good employees will stay at a company longer when they like their coworkers. The more people get to know each other, the better they work together. Our brains are hardwired to connect with each other.”.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/culture-new-salary-what-people-really-want-from-jobs-tammy-stone/
Productivity in most developed economies has been anaemic. In the decade between 2005 and 2015, labor productivity was less than 1% for 7 of the 10 years – this can be linked to the fact wages have been stagnant. Of course, low productivity can depress wages, but in recent decades, wages haven’t grown as much […]
One study found that happy employees are up to 20% more productive than unhappy employees. When it comes to salespeople, happiness has an even greater impact, raising sales by 37%. But the benefits don’t end there …