For the second year running Stewarts Law, the international litigation practice, invited John Smythe to design and facilitate their business strategy meeting attended by the top 50 or so lawyers. The meeting had to meet two objectives; provide robust solutions to deliver the near term business strategy and think out to 2025 to frame the [...]
This month’s Engage for Change networking and learning breakfast at the Groucho Club was nine months in the making; it took that long to track down a suitable speaker for one of our most controversial topics – the dark side of engagement. And it was well worth the wait. Charlie Winter, Senior Research Fellow at [...]
Terrorist engagement has taken another sinister turn, as the new President of the United States handed ISIS and fellow extremist groups a trump card in the form of his refugee visa suspension. The executive order, dubbed the ‘Muslim ban’ by media, suspended immigration from seven Muslim-majority nations in a move that Donald Trump claimed “…is [...]
Part one of our research* into the influence of digital communication and collaboration tech on behaviour/culture, working relationships and performance is now available here: Social technology at work - Engage for Success Report June 2017 We’ve also gathered a treasure trove of quantitative data, drawn from around 1,000 people representing nearly 30 organisations, in four [...]
With unprecedented urbanisation and an estimated 1 million young Indians entering the job market every month, India faces major challenges to create meaningful jobs. Indian companies, and inbound foreign investors, have access to a pool of talented ‘millennials’ but largely struggle to engage them as the country transforms rapidly and old orders crumble. Mark Hannant [...]
Two Tales of Participative Strategy Changing the story for the Blue Cross Animal lovers will all know Blue Cross. Sameer Pathak, Head of Internal Communication and Engagement, invited Engage for Change to design their Leadership Conference 2016, an off site for 80 leaders. The theme was Changing the story for Blue Cross and the aim [...]
Enterprise Social Media Research Early Results Suggest a Mixed Score Card Engage for Change, Glass Digital Media, Carlo communications (Sydney) and Simply are researching the influence of enterprise social media on behaviour/working relationships and business performance. And where possible to cite generational and regional differences in different parts of the world. Whilst there is plenty [...]
Two Tales of Participative Strategy Stewarts Law: Past, Present, Future For the second year running Stewarts Law, the international litigation practice, invited John Smythe to design and facilitate their business strategy meeting attended by the top 50 or so lawyers. The meeting had to meet two objectives; provide robust solutions to deliver the near term [...]
Join research into the impact of technology/social media on relationships across the generations and the world Phoebe Lebrecht (Y gen), Carlo (M gen) and John Smythe (boomer) are undertaking mixed generation focus groups to explore the topic and present findings and analysis at the March Well Being convention in the UK and thereafter at other [...]
John argued that under command and control elites use internal communication to communicate what has been decided by the few to the many. In that sense film and video (and other traditional comms) is a cypher to get content over and understood. The problem is that the recipients are cast as spectators of others’ decisions [...]
