Employee engagement

Whatever your business or purpose, how well you manage your staff, how well you communicate throughout your organisation, and how well you look after the ‘psychological contract’ will have a big influence on the engagement of your people and ultimately the performance of your organisation.

We love to talk about these ideas and put them into practice, because we believe they make a difference. Engaged people perform better, and that provides the commercial rationale for what we do. But engaged people also feel better, are happier, and live longer. That’s why we are passionate about what we do.

Our expertise in employee research, combined with our leadership and organisational development ability and our ability to influence at the top of organisations makes Edgecumbe uniquely qualified to help our clients build employee engagement and improve organisational performance.

Our approach

After conducting thorough research and with reference to the wealth of research into employee engagement, we work with HR and senior management to create bespoke programmes to raise employee engagement. We focus on those factors that are known to impact employee engagement; factors such as:

• Being able to put forward ideas
• Knowing what is going on
• The relationship with your line manager
• Feeling that you are doing something worthwhile

Often these programmes involve changing culture and behaviours so they can take time and the need consistent leadership effort to produce results, but when they do they prove to be well worth the effort.

Employee research and engagement programmes are based on our model of employee engagement.

Edgecumbe Research

Edgecumbe Research is one of the UK’s leading employee research businesses. Edgecumbe consultants work with the research team to identify strengths, weaknesses and engagement drivers, and to measure progress in building employee engagement. For more information on employee surveys visit Edgecumbe Research.