Bridge news

  • Workplace banter can identify future leaders

    Workplace rituals can weed out the potential leaders, according to a new book.

  • Retain talent and avoid the brain drain

    Organisations must steel themselves for the looming talent drain as their employees grow secure enough to look outside of their current job role - bear in mind all the organisations that will soon be in a position to begin poaching talent again from their competitors.

  • Lloyal relationships by 'loving' our customers?

     Inspired by Insight 100's customer loyalty workshops that focus on 'loving the customers you're with' and the impending Valentine's Day, I got to thinking 'could the need for businesses to retain existing customers and build brand loyalty, really be achieved through 'loving?' their customers?' 

  • JK Rowling - the fringe benefits of failure

    At her Harvard University commencement speech, 'Harry Potter' author JK Rowling offers some powerful, heartening advice to dreamers and overachievers, including one hard-won lesson that she deems "worth more than any qualification I ever earned." 

  • The year when Customer Service Meets Marketing

    I often think about how executives in Industry and within the Public Sector feel about all the noise going on in the world of social media.

  • Recession 'over' but employee engagement hits all-time low, CIPD warns

    Job satisfaction has plummeted among UK workers despite GDP figures out today which are expected to mark an end to the recession.

  • CRM revenues remain flat in 2010

    Customer relationship management (CRM) is weathering the economic downturn better than many other enterprise software applications, according to a recent European survey conducted by Gartner.

  • Bad service costing firms customers and cash

    Customers are likely to switch to other firms because of poor customer service – costing companies billions of pounds.

  • Employee development: The role of the line manager

    Examining the importance of the employee-line manager relationship in employee development with experts from the Insititute of Employment Studies.

  • Banking for all through the Post Office

    Almost half of the UK’s poorest people distrust high street banks, leading to calls for a state-led offering.