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Part 3: Engagement Is Dead – What We Do with Data

Employee engagement is an often studied, rarely understood beast. My issue with the concept stands with how we measure engagement, what metrics we’re measuring and what we do with the data we collect from our efforts. We’ve already covered the flaws in how we collect...

Part 2: Engagement is dead – What We Measure

As I’ve made clear in the first post in this series, I fully believe in the power employee engagement has to create happy, productive employees. My issue with the concept stands with how we measure engagement, what metrics we’re measuring and what we do with the data...

Part 1: Engagement is dead – How We Measure

As I begin a new series on employee engagement, it’s important for me to say this now. I believe in the power of engagement and its relationship to happy, productive employees. When I am engaged, I get into the “flow”—a term coined and made famous by the great Mihaly...

WPA on ‘insight on business’ podcast of Michael Libbie.

Kevin Schlueter and Stephen Smith, were invited to be interviewed on Michael Libbie's 'insight on business' podcast. A great 25 minute insight on why People Analytics and especially the deep insight gained with it, is so crucial for organizations. Improving business...

Creating Complacency: A Tale Of Incentives

Stephen Smith, Head of People Strategy at WPA was asked to give one of the speeches on the Disrupt HR 2018.

WPA at Zukunft Personal 2018

We had a great time on Europe's mainland largest HR Solution fair in Cologne. We were able to attract a lot of people on our stand with our live Quiz about culture and the effectiveness of the workplace. We look forward to see you on more HR fairs in the US and Europe...

Why WPA loves GDPR compliance.

You must have been doing business outside of Europe if you haven’t noticed that European privacy laws are about to change. The GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) is almost in effect. At the end of May, all organizations that handle personal data of European...

WPA at HR TECH in Amsterdam 24/25 October 2017. Come visit us.

We will be attending the HR TECH in Amsterdam this year. We will be between the start-ups and disrupters. We are changing the game when it comes to providing cross departmental insight on how work performs in the organization. Come visit us. Make an appointment via...

The final verdict on the open office.

What I am telling you in a minute is nothing even near news. But I understood that advertising lives by lots of repetition of the message. So I reckon this article was needed once more. Today I saw this article on LinkedIn: 'Why your open office does not work' on...