Welcome to Engagement Matters #6

Meet our new secondees

You’ll hear us say that a movement needs to move and whilst we were sad to wave goodbye and see a couple of our secondees return to their day jobs taking a raft of new skills and bags of confidence with them we are excited to introduce you to our latest round of secondees.   Drum roll please … 

Mez Fokeer is an HR Professional who has been seconded from the Department for Work and Pensions. Mez is Engage for Success’ new Website Improvement Project Manager. 

Following BrandPie's recommendations from the website review, Mez will be putting together a core design group made up of Gurus and Practitioners as part of this review. If you are interested in getting involved to co-create the website, then please email Mez by 1st April 2015. She can be found at mez@engageforsuccess.org or contact her on 07824 609740 with any questions you may have. Don't worry you don't have to be a technical expert as the group is focusing on the content and your experience as a user. 

Staying with the website theme, if you would like to submit a Blog or share any tools or ideas then please email these to content@engageforsuccess.org for publishing.  But, before you do you may want to check our content guide.

Karen Donachie joins us a secondee from Her Majesty’s Passport Office where she has focused on learning and development and the design and implementation of new passport operating systems.  She is our new Research Director for the movement and will initially be focusing on ways to encourage the sharing of experience and knowledge among our sub groups.  Later this year she will be working with Cathy Brown and the 'wicked thinkers' (check out Cathy’s welcome message to find out more). 

On joining the movement Karen said: 

“I am thrilled to have joined the team as Research Director and I look forward to raising awareness of effective engagement. I have always realised the importance of engaging staff and throughout my career have seen many good and bad examples of staff engagement.”
 

Richard Mortimer has joined Engage for Success as a part-time secondee from the Ministry of Justice family of organisations where he has been involved in embedding and promoting employee engagement across the Civil Service. 

Richard’s focus as a secondee will be supporting David and Nita in their work on Transformational engagement. 

Sub Group Update

Not for Profit Sub Group

The group is starting work on a series of case studies from member organisations to share later in the year.  For more information, please contact tanya@engageforsuccess.org
 

Wellbeing Sub Group 
Are you a design or digital expert? Help turn a vision into reality!

The Wellbeing sub-group are very excited about their next output. It will be full of practical content to help business leaders identify the implications of key trends in wellbeing, and how they can improve wellbeing in their organisation. They hope it will complement the great work of the phase 2 group who wrote the 'Wellbeing and employee engagement: the evidence'  white paper.

We all know that business leaders are time-poor and want something easily accessible, engaging, practical and concise. So the group are keen to create something which works on- and off-line, that users can interact with to find out more about the topics that interest them. Although they have the vision, they don’t have the right skills and are looking for your help!

If you have any level of design and/or digital experience and would be able to support with either building this output, or developing requirements, please contact Hannah.Mcnicholl@nao.gsi.gov.uk or caroline.arora@serco.com.

In other news, we are pleased to announce that Hannah McNicholl will be taking on Chair of the Wellbeing sub-group, and Caroline Arora will be supporting as Coordinator. They would like to thank Gaby Cohen, the outgoing Chair, for her energy and drive in setting up phase 3 of their work, and wish her well in her future endeavours.  For more information about the Wellbeing Sub Group, please contact lauren@engageforsuccess.org. 

Social Media & Digital Engagement Sub Group 

Our Social Media and Digital Engagement Sub Group carries on apace.  Our challenge is to be the bridge between the C Suite and the advisors to the world of social.  The next meeting is on the 21st April in London - join us as we explore this world and move towards celebrating our work at our special Engage for Success Social Media and Digital Engagement conference later this year.  For more information contact Katherine Bassey at katherine@engageforsuccess or John Smythe at johnsmythe@engageforchange.com. 

New Sub Group Alert!

We’re going to be setting up a sub group and/or SIG looking at Engagement in Education, with several strands of work planned. If you’d like to get involved, please get in touch with Tanya Rice, tanya@engageforsuccess.org

Events - March 

As always there have been lots of great things happening across the movement.  Events have been hosted by Leeds City Council, the CIPD Northants Branch, ASDA and Middlesex University. Check out Emma Browes’ account of the ASDA event here  or on Yammer! 

The EFS Big Event was held at Leeds United Football Club which focused on Delivering Customer Excellence through Employee Engagement. 

Jo Redman and the EfS team from Wales and the West presented at the CIPD West of England Branch Conference in Bristol.

Further details of all our events are listed on the events pages of the website.  If you would like to run an event, we have all the materials, which you can customise, on the Community and Events pages on the website. Please remember to add your event to our Calendar, and contact Tanya@engageforsuccess.org for any support.