What do employees and managers care about in 2023? How do we keep them feeling happy, interested and safe?

A new report from Reward Gateway offers six human-centred strategies to build strong, resilient teams. So, this week on The Mind Tools L&D Podcast, Ross G and Owen are joined by Chief People Officer Nebel Crowhurst to discuss their findings.

We explore:

· - whether it's important that your manager 'cares' about you

· - the role of mental, physical and wellbeing support in engaging employees

· - if it's OK just to turn up and do your job.

You can find the full report online at: https://www.rewardgateway.com/hubfs/Resources-eBooks/uk-2023-employee-engagement-trends-report.pdf

In 'What I Learned This Week', Owen discussed Mastodon and Mark Gilroy's YouTube tech reviews: https://www.youtube.com/@ThatMarkGilroy

Nebel discussed Australia's new approach to domestic violence leave: https://www.fairwork.gov.au/leave/family-and-domestic-violence-leave

Ross discussed Glasgow City Council's plans to build a 'feminist' city: https://www.scotsman.com/news/people/glasgow-becomes-uks-first-feminist-city-as-town-planning-motion-from-councillor-holly-bruce-passes-3896633

For more from Nebel and Reward Gateway, visit: https://www.rewardgateway.com/uk

For more from us, including access to our back catalogue of podcasts, visit mindtoolsbusiness.com. There, you'll also find details of our award-winning performance support toolkit, our off-the-shelf e-learning, and our custom work.

And, this week, we're giving a special shout out to our Learning Performance Benchmark. Not sure how your L&D function is performing? Find out now, for free: https://mindtoolsbusiness.com/solutions/learning-performance-benchmark

Connect with our speakers

If you'd like to share your thoughts on this episode, connect with our speakers on Twitter:

· Ross Garner - @RossGarnerMT

· Owen Ferguson - @OwenFerguson (or https://mastodon.scot/@owenferguson)

· Nebel Crowhurst - @HR_Nebel