by Benjamin Ellis | Jan 17, 2023 | Announcements, SurveyOptic
The annual employee engagement survey is making a comeback. After falling out of favour for a few years, more and more companies are coming round to the idea that a large annual survey is the best way to understand their workforce. Why is this? After all, in recent...
by Caalie | Nov 28, 2022 | Knowledge Work
When my eldest daughter hit the glorious long summer holiday where she had taken her GCSEs and she needed to decide her A-Levels, it was really important to her 16yo self to work out whether she was an Artist or a Scientist. She spent the whole summer holiday...
by Benjamin Ellis | Oct 17, 2022 | Announcements, Milestone Planner, Productivity
One of the great things about mid-month Friday is the 8:59 Mindshare Breakfast at Login Lounge. It’s a great way to start the day, exchanging ideas with fellow business folks over a great coffee and a tasty brioche. This month the conversation turned to the topic of...
by Benjamin Ellis | Oct 8, 2021 | Leadership
When SocialOptic was founded, we thought as much about HOW we would do business as WHAT business we would do. While our products and business model have evolved in the years that have followed, the kind of business we want to be has not changed. To us it is...
by Benjamin Ellis | Mar 20, 2020 | Announcements
In short, whilst these are deeply challenging times, not much has changed operationally for SocialOptic in the last few weeks. SocialOptic has been a ‘remote first’ company since it was founded, over 10 years ago. All of our team and associates are home-based and have...
by Benjamin Ellis | May 7, 2019 | Announcements, SurveyOptic
Last week, Redefining Communications published the results of an intensive piece of research that came out of our partnership looking into communicating with remote, desk-less workforces. Understanding how these workers are served by the communications channels is a...
by Benjamin Ellis | Feb 20, 2019 | Leadership
Earlier this month I caught up with Bruce Daisley, VP EMEA, Twitter, ahead of the launch of his new book “The Joy of Work”, which is already a No.1 Sunday Times Bestseller. Bruce is well known, not only for his role at Twitter, but also for the...
by Caalie | Jul 5, 2018 | Milestone Planner
SocialOptic are pleased to announce that we have again been approved as a government supplier on the G-Cloud platform. Our solutions have been approved on the framework throughout the last four iterations and have grown our customer base with each new wave. For us,...
by Benjamin Ellis | May 1, 2018 | Privacy
It is the final count down to GDPR (our GDPR countdown clock feels like it moves faster each day). As the ICO’s Elizabeth Denham, pointed out at the ICO Data Protection Practitioners Conference last month, there are just a few weeks until the GDPR comes into...
by Benjamin Ellis | Mar 6, 2018 | Privacy, Project Management
It isn’t here yet, but the UK’s Data Protection Bill moved a step closed to becoming the Data Protection Act 2018, as it received a second reading in The House of Commons yesterday. The Bill introduces the UK’s derogations (or variations) for GDPR,...
by Benjamin Ellis | Oct 30, 2017 | Privacy
First the good news, if you are a small business in the UK. The ICO have set up a new GDPR hotline, which is a telephone advice service for businesses with less than 250 people to help them with the new data protection laws. It goes live on the 1st November and will...
by Benjamin Ellis | Oct 16, 2017 | Privacy
There has been significant activity around on GDPR in the UK this month: The Data Protection Bill had its second reading in the House of Lords, and is now heading to the committee stage. The bill provides for the UK’s implementation of GDPR, with some special...
by Benjamin Ellis | Sep 25, 2017 | Announcements, SurveyOptic
Get right to the bottom of measuring employee engagement. There are whole books devoted to it, but the basics are quick to grasp. The October edition of Voice Magazine, from the IoIC, has an extensive article titled “All in good measure” on the topic. It...
by Benjamin Ellis | Sep 15, 2017 | Announcements, Leadership, On the road
September saw The Telegraph hosting a panel discussion at their London offices on using technology to transform smaller businesses. The panel included Raja Saggi (head of SMB marketing, UK and Ireland, Google), Luke Hughes (co-founder, Origym), Shashi Verma (Chief...
by Benjamin Ellis | Mar 31, 2017 | Announcements, Leadership, Management
What if you could have a machine that could create an infinite (or at least unlimited) improvement in your business? Let’s call it “The Infinite Improvement Machine”. Sounds interesting perhaps? Intriguing even? But perhaps you are feeling a little...
