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employee engagement

corporate social responsibility

July 19, 2018 by Simon Mainwaring

Employees make your business work. With the U.S. unemployment rate hovering around 4 percent and limited skilled labor, acquiring top talent is competitive. What’s more, recent Gallup polls found that roughly half of America’s fully employed are seeking a new job and only 13 percent of them consider their work to be meaningful. So, the […]

Employees make your business work. With the U.S. unemployment rate hovering around 4 percent and limited skilled labor, acquiring top talent is competitive. What’s more, recent Gallup polls found that roughly half of America’s fully employed are seeking a new job and only 13 percent of them consider their work to be meaningful. So, the …

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Filed Under: Causes, Community, Future, Leadership Tagged With: Corporate, corporate purpose, Corporate Social Responsibility, Employee, employee engagement

August 31, 2016 by Simon Mainwaring

Everyday, women are bombarded with thousands of messages both explicit and implicit about how they look, and more often than not, how they can look better to presumably feel better. From the covers of celebrity tabloids, to “how-to” videos on YouTube, to a galaxy of social posts, and everywhere else in the media, it’s a …

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Filed Under: Optimism, Purpose, Values Tagged With: Brand Empowerment, Dove, employee engagement

February 12, 2016 by Simon Mainwaring

So few companies do everything they can to maximize employee engagement. What are 3 things you can quickly do to upscale employee engagement and culture?  

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Filed Under: Community, Videos, We First Tagged With: Company Culture, employee engagement

July 9, 2014 by Simon Mainwaring

Originally published in CSRwire In today’s radically transparent social business marketplace, the reputation of a company extends way beyond its marketing to include its supply chain, manufacturing processes, employee treatment and customer engagement. Likewise, full circle sustainability requires that companies overhaul how they source their ingredients, manufacture and distribute their products, and manage the waste they …

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Filed Under: Community, CSR, Leadership, Sustainability, Thinking Tagged With: Brand, Coca Cola, CSR, employee engagement, Marketing, Social media, story telling, supply chain, sustainability, transparency, unilever, Zara

April 24, 2014 by Simon Mainwaring

Sustainability is an ever-evolving conversation that is becoming increasingly sophisticated in the demands it places on brands. For instance, several decades ago it was considered a competitive advantage to be called a green company, yet after more and more brands co-opted this message it lost its meaning. Today, with so many large corporations making significant …

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Filed Under: Conferences, CSR, Future, Leadership, Sustainability, Values Tagged With: brand leadership, CMO, CSO, employee engagement, Sustainable Brands

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