by Benjamin Ellis | May 18, 2023 | WorkTogether Podcast
In Episode 5 of the SocialOptic WorkTogether Podcast, Simon Bird joins Benjamin Ellis to discuss creative thinking in business. Simon is Director of the Innovation & Creativity Lab Ltd. Founded to address missed opportunities in business attitudes...
by Benjamin Ellis | Apr 20, 2023 | WorkTogether Podcast
In Episode 4 of WorkTogether, Cris Sachikonye joins Benjamin Ellis to discuss Social Value, leadership, and decision making. Social value has increasingly become a topic of public interest, particularly after the introduction of the Public Services (Social...
by Benjamin Ellis | Mar 30, 2023 | Announcements, Leadership, Surveys
I vividly remember the first time that I spoke about the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) in the context of organisational transformation. It was almost two decades ago at a conference for communications professionals. The room was packed, and as I explained the...
by Benjamin Ellis | Mar 21, 2023 | WorkTogether Podcast
In Episode 3 of the SocialOptic WorkTogether Podcast, Matt Partovi joins Benjamin Ellis to discuss company culture, people experience and remote working. All critical business elements that have seen more of a focus in recent years. Matt is Head of...
by Benjamin Ellis | Mar 2, 2023 | Announcements, Leadership
Since the start of my career in technology I have been keenly aware of the role culture has in the success of a business. I remember my first week working in Silicon Valley, as Friday afternoon rolled around, pizzas arrived at the office and family members and company...
by Benjamin Ellis | Feb 17, 2023 | WorkTogether Podcast
In Episode 2 of the SocialOptic WorkTogether Podcast, Richard Maybury joins Benjamin Ellis for an insightful discussion about “hybrid” work and flexible working. Are they really new concepts? The sudden shift to hybrid work a few years ago has created new...
by Benjamin Ellis | Jan 31, 2023 | Announcements, Leadership
You’ve either heard of the closed-loop process or you haven’t. Here at SocialOptic, it’s something we incorporate into our daily working practice and we encourage our clients to do the same. Why? Because when you look at high-performing organisations you see a...
by Chris Trim | Jan 24, 2023 | Surveys
Imagine for a moment, you’re stuck at home, ill, and when you turn on your computer, hoping to find out what’s going on in the world, you find the mouse has broken. You decide to browse online anyway but find that your once favourite websites don’t work properly now...
by Benjamin Ellis | Jan 18, 2023 | WorkTogether Podcast
In this, the first episode of our WorkTogether podcast, we are looking at the topic of accessibility: What it is, how it impacts people and what can be done to improve things in the digital world for any with accessibility needs. Benjamin Ellis is joined by Steve...
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 | 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 | Milestone Planner
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 | 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...
