insights_category: People

As businesses don’t exist in some utopian universe, we have to earn the respect, loyalty, and ultimately love of our colleagues and customers. This article explores some of the ways we can appreciate the behavioural psychology that motivates people, and how that’s encouraged through the design of our business, organisation, and service.   At Rokker, we… Continue reading How do you build a business people love?

Building and managing high performing teams is not about Values, Engagement, Diversity, Purpose, Experience, Management or Rewards. Whilst many of my blogs seem to focus on the negative, I was recently reassured my colleague Dr Hazel Harrison that this negativity bias is what keeps us alive. ‘Happy thoughts’ do not stop you getting hit by… Continue reading Not

It is Rokker’s 7th Birthday! today – not your standard ‘big birthday’ milestone, but I think one worth celebrating nonetheless! We don’t have to write a shareholder update, but if we did, maybe it would go something like this…. Over the last 24 months the world has changed in countless ways for our clients, and this has… Continue reading Rokker’s 7th Birthday!

A continuation of Jim Marshall’s look into the future world of work, this article examines the 5 trends that lead us to a picture of what the Future of Work will look like for organisations in the knowledge-based economy. Work from Anywhere!  There is an excess of boring [on & offline] debate surrounding home working… Continue reading The Future of Work – 5 Trends We Expect To See

In this series, Rokker’s own Jim Marshall explores how we might transition from 20th century working practices to 21st century needs through hypothesising about future trends and what a winning workplace of the future might look like.  My Global Trust Equation rating for Drone Airspace Optimiser is at an all-time high. Zreon has automatically ‘held’… Continue reading The Future of Work – My Work Week, 2035

Rokker expands their Senior Consultant team!  Rokker is excited to announce the addition of Emma Blaylock to our Senior Consulting team. Emma brings a wide array of consulting experience, including practice in Business Change, Corporate Development, M&A, and Innovation to companies ranging from early-stage start-ups to global corporations. This will allow Emma to bring a unique perspective… Continue reading Rokker welcomes Emma Blaylock!

… why making sure you have an outstanding EVP is more important than ever.  Many organisations have not paid as much heed to the employee value proposition as they have to their customer proposition… and many organisations [for both customer and employees] have sought a quick fix throwing budget at acquisition and retention without focusing… Continue reading The Perfect Talent Storm – EVP Part ii

The EVP is not a classic TLA (three letter acronym). It’s not quite as dramatic as the EMP (The Matrix 2001 – our only defence against the squiddies), not as everyday as TBC or LOL and not as vital as SOS. So what is an EVP?  An EVP is an Employee Value Proposition. Back in… Continue reading ‘Quick Smithers deploy the E.V.P. …’ ‘… Errrrm – what is an E.V.P?’ – EVP Part i

There is a lot of talk about Talent Retention and Attraction, but how many organisations have really dedicated time to designing, implementing, communicating and measuring their EVP. In order to move from said to done – or at least from said to doing – then a set of steps is useful. We use the Design… Continue reading After all is said and done, more is said than done. (Aesop) – EVP Part iii

Identifying the common mistakes in the people space, what impact these mistakes can have, and how to avoid them – Part One of Two. We have been inspired by Skull Mountain’s article ‘Eight Ways Your Product Function can Fail’ to write our own version of events in the People Consulting space. We work with leadership… Continue reading 9 Likely Failures in the People Space – Part One