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How to cultivate a security-conscious culture: Leadership’s critical role

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With Cyber Security Awareness Month 2024 well underway, it’s crucial to recognise that the efforts made during this period are just the beginning. Creating a truly effective human firewall requires more than annual training programs or temporary initiatives. This month is a great platform to generate exposure and conversation for security team(s) to help drive […]

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Employee mental health programmes are failing, and here’s why

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Blue Goose internal communications specialist, Stan Methven, considers the impact of mental health programmes and what you can do so that your wellbeing campaign makes a difference. According to The World Health Organisation $3,747 billion is lost each year in productivity due to employee mental health issues. The concept of focusing on workplace mental health […]

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Cyber Security Awareness Month 2024: Your Essential Toolkit For Employee Communications

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The average global cost of a data breach in 2024 is $4.88m, according to IBM. This is a 10% increase on the previous year and the highest ever. What’s driving this is the increase in frequency and sophistication of attacks as cyber criminals take advantage of organisations which don’t prioritise cyber security and leave gaps […]

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Are you doing enough to support your menopausal staff?

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Last year it was reported that there were record numbers of over 50’s in work across the UK. This coupled with the fact women over 50 represent one of the fastest growing segments of the workforce, means there are very few organisations where the menopause is not being experienced by staff. With a recruitment market […]

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HOW PREPARED IS YOUR ORGANISATION FOR AI?

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Feeling unprepared for how AI will impact your communications and culture? You’re not alone. At the recent Blue Goose Briefing event, ‘AI:Friend or foe?’ there was a shared sense of organisations not being ready for the impact AI will make – both positive and negative. Saying that, there was also optimism about what could happen […]

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The Empathy Revolution Revisited – where are we now?

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Nearly four years ago, in the height of the first lockdown, we wrote about how the pandemic might just have been one of the best things to happen to employee engagement. Coined ‘The Empathy Revolution’, it encompassed the (almost instantaneous) movement of employers, who were thrust into generational changes to ways of working overnight, with […]

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Employee Experience: What it is; why it matters; how to define it.

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The ‘employee experience’ can be seen to exist in a number of ways. Firstly, as something that just ‘is’. You join a place of work on the back of a job offer, probable role specifics and supplementary ‘package’. The ‘experience’ is all the other random things that happen, combined. Alternatively, we can view the employee […]

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Women and the police. Who’s wearing the trousers?

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They say diversity is who’s invited to the party. Inclusivity is the extent to which all people invited have a good time. Equality happens when the people organising the party are as diverse as those invited. Women in the police, and the trousers they’re asked to wear, offer a compelling case study of these ideas […]

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Purpose and your people: making the connection 

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You probably know the rumours: purpose matters more than ever before. Gen Zers won’t get out of bed without a purpose, and certainly won’t join an organisation until they see, hear and feel it for themselves. Some may argue nothing’s really changed – employees have always wanted to see the (social) value in their work. […]

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