NWEEG Conference 2016 inspires employee engagement

The North West Employee Engagement Group (NWEEG) held its second ever conference on Thursday May 19 at Partington’s Newton Hall Holiday Park in Blackpool to more than 160 business delegates from across the region.

The Group, founded by Scancapture, encourages HR leaders to meet one another, share best practice and learn more about how better staff engagement can lead to increases in retention and productivity.

“The event is all about employee engagement, skills, learning and development and the idea of the group is to learn from others and share experiences.

“We want to promote awareness about employee engagement and what it can do, showcase real life practical experiences and proven evidence that it works, so that everyone can take it back to their business and try it out.

“To put that in to context, if you take all of the 95 businesses that were there on the day, they employ 321,000 people, turn over £13.5bn, and if we engaged them all 2.5 per cent more, that would be put £525m extra in the pot. So this is serious stuff we are talking about.”

“Employee engagement is something very close to my heart as it has completely transformed my own working life and our business as a whole.”

Other speakers included Jamie Thompson of MTA Learning, Sandra Green of Handbags in the Boardroom and Norry Ascroft of L&D professional.