Engaging Times: Quick and easy ways to motivate employees
While asking your workforce how they are feeling and how they relate to their work might be a first step towards engaging with them, any inquisition must be followed up by real action.
This was one of the clear learning points which emerged from The HR World’s webinar, Engaging Times: Quick and easy ways to motivate employees. Sponsored by emPerform who were represented by their Sales Director Chris Knight, the webinar also drew from the experience and thoughts of HR professionals, Dina Knight – Chief People Officer, DataTec and Logicalis, and Karina Paschalis – Human Resources Business Partner, Canvas Offices.
The discussion covered all aspects of engaging people, from the current challenge of meeting the requirements of a diverse and demanding workforce to building a company culture that attracts and retains talent. What emerged from the discussion was that while technology and processes can be designed to adapt for and reach across a diverse workforce, keeping initiatives simple and straightforward is often the most effective way to show that people matter.
Drawing from their diverse experience the panelists explored how engagement can be difficult to achieve in today’s world, but also revealed the benefits organisations can achieve from getting this right. Not only does it mean your workforce is less likely to leave and more likely to deliver good work, but there’s a deeper, wider benefit. Work, after all, takes up a lot of our lives. Ensuring people are engaged with it, and feel they matter could be seen as making the world a better place.
Chris Knight is the Sales Director at emPerform UK, over the past 12 years, Chris has been passionate about connecting organisations with bespoke solutions to help employees thrive in the workplace by creating engagement opportunities using tools that support continuous conversations and prioritise collaboration, employee personal development and building team relationships.
Prior to joining emPerform, Chris held leadership roles in BT, O2 and Exel Technology Group, where he helped develop technical solutions, managed large scale performance and sales initiatives, and built strategic partnerships for long term growth.
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As Chief People Officer, Dina is accountable for all aspects of Logicalis’ and Datatec’s people operations strategy from board level down.
Within Logicalis, Dina leads the key programs that contribute to the continuous evolution of the digital workplace, including our employee value proposition, global leadership framework and our global Workday platform for enterprise resource planning.
With 30 years of HR experience across private and PLC business environments, Dina is highly experienced in working across international workforces and building strong teams to deliver change and drive results whilst ensuring the businesses well-being remains a top priority.
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Karina Paschalis is an expert in creating fulfilling work environments that empower people to find their authentic selves, so they can excel and achieve their goals. Having spent eight years supporting the organisational growth of companies within fashion and recruitment, Karina now works as Human Resources Business Partner at Canvas Offices, a rising start within the flexible office space industry, ensuring the success of their talent acquisition, employee engagement, and organisational development strategies.
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