Email is like a Swiss Army penknife. It’s clunky, but the little pair of scissors, the knives and even the magnifying glass is pretty useful. You can always find a better alternative to every tool in the penknife, but you never know what you need and it’s easy to carry around.  In the same way [...]

simple deal

Every HR team or department that we’ve talked to over the last year or so either has or is developing their EVP (Employee Value Proposition). We’re not keen on TLAs (oops – I mean long-winded three letter acronyms), we’d rather call EVPs, People Deals. Whether we’re going in to develop one or to start working [...]

13 Mar 13

Otherwise Engaged

I’ve worked in a few rewarding (and less rewarding) jobs, but I don’t think I became fully aware of the term ‘employee engagement’, much less the concept, until I moved to London last year. Such as it is, here are my two (three) cents on getting more out of employees. I’ve even managed to crowbar [...]

28 Jan 13

Be Tech Free

As you may have heard, we’re trying something new at CorporateEdge to foster better communication between ourselves and with you – our clients and friends. To help us do this were switching off email every Tuesday. We call it our ‘working experiment’, and will continue to explore what (if any) impact there is in ceasing [...]

What would happen if a digital agency shunned technology? Seems like the obvious answer is that it would rapidly fail. But hear me out for a moment and I might just convince you otherwise. As part of a New Year’s resolution, my wife and I have decided to try something new for 2013. At Christmas, [...]

14 Aug 12

Olympic Legacy

As the games of the 30th Olympiad close; the athletes, games-makers and media from around the world pack up and head back to life as normal (not forgetting those remaining to make sure the Paralympics hit equal heights), it seems an appropriate time to take stock. For business owners, are there any lessons we can [...]

Recently I received a link to a truly inspiring video. Jaqueline Novogratz’ (founder and CEO of Acumen Fund) commencement speech at Gettysburg College is quite simply great. The thing about great speeches is that they allow each of us take something different from the content, message and themes and yet we are all left with an equal sense of impact. I [...]

The terms “Brand” and “EVP” (Employee Value Proposition)” are used to cover a multitude of definitions (and sins!) by the communications, marketing and HR communities. Brand can mean anything from logo and advertising to vision and corporate credo. And similarly EVP can range from recruitment advertising to being a broad element of an HR strategy. This [...]

We’ve recently been working on a proposal for a new intranet for a client and as I was writing it I realised how requirements have changed. In the past, intranets typically have been very dry, static systems with the usual plugin widgets for weather, etc. But where things have moved on with the web, so [...]

Last weekend my wife and I decided to undertake a thorough clear out of all of our (relatively) old clothing, shoes (of which my wife has an extensive collection) and any odd bits and pieces that have been cluttering the house. For a bit of fun, we decided that we would go to a car [...]