Employee engagement is the difference between someone working resentfully at 40% of their capacity, and working enthusiastically at 110%. A start-up simply can’t afford to carry any disengaged team members. So how do you keep your team in the right headspace? How do you balance the urgent need for everyone to roll their sleeves up and get things done; with the unmatched opportunity to innovate and craft people’s roles around what brings the best out of them?

In this session, we’ll take the best thinking from classic HR management, human motivation theory and behavioural economics, and apply it to the unique challenges faced by small organisations.

You’ll come away from this session with new insights around feedback, engaging employees and the emerging trend of job-crafting; we’ll give you frameworks to ground that theory and put it into practice; and we’ll work through how to make it relevant to your organisation.

About the presenter

Robbie Semple is the Founder and Executive Director of Worthwhile; an organisation dedicated to helping early stage social enterprises and charities grow, with access to the best graduate talent. Worthwhile runs recruitment, training and a comprehensive outsourced graduate scheme for ambitious social impact organisations.

Robbie began his career at Rolls-Royce. He worked across the UK and North America as a Talent Specialist, Operations Manager and HR Business Partner. Robbie is an On Purpose Fellow, having worked with the Bromley by Bow Centre and Student Hubs. He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development. He is a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, and holds an MSc in Organisational and Social Psychology from LSE

ie is an On Purpose Fellow, having worked with the Bromley by Bow Centre and Student Hubs. He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development. He is a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt, and holds an MSc in Organisational and Social Psychology from LSE