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Do you know that you work with inclusion in the right way?

Tips & ideas October 9, 2022

Inclusion is critical for every team to reach its full potential. Teams that succeed in increasing the sense of inclusion have been shown to generate a perceived improvement in team performance, the quality of their decisions, and their collaborations. Inclusion is also central to retention.

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9 Drivers of Engagement

Tips & ideas, Employee experience September 20, 2022

How can your organization build and grow engagement and give your teams the best environment to succeed? 9 Drivers of Engagement gives you tips. The starting point is the latest neuroscience research, 20th-century classic management theories, and analysis of two million anonymized answers in the Populum app since 2016.

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4 strategic applications of AI-based comment analytics

Tips & ideas, Employee experience September 7, 2022

Organizations often encourage their employees to write free text comments in employee surveys. These comments can prove a gold mine as they provide the manager with context to the measurement result and encourage and facilitate the critical team dialogue.

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5 tips to gain more from your employee survey

Many managers, senior leaders, and HR leaders spend a lot of time understanding the well-being of employees and what may be in the way of performance. There are several ways you can work to understand your employees. Here are five tips for when using a modern employee survey as a tool to continuously track and know the employee experience:

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Why it is important to regularly understand the employee experience

Tips & ideas August 9, 2022

Anna Tebelius Bodin, brain expert, keynote speaker, and educator, explains - through the lens of neuroscience - why it is important to understand employees' experiences and what positive effects it has.

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The top 8 tips for ensuring valuable insights from your employee survey

Insights from an employee survey can create great value for leaders and HR, and the entire organization, including the employees themselves. For the employee survey measurement to deliver valuable and useful insights, the eight best tips are to:

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The KTH Royal Institute of Technology awards Populum the contract to implement their modern employee survey

News July 25, 2022

Receiving the highest quality score of all ten employee engagement technologies assessed during the evaluation process, Populum, a Nordic leader in employee experience insights, is awarded the multimillion kronor contract with the KTH Royal Institute of Technology (KTH).

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A tool for the manager and the work environment

Our clients share June 19, 2022

A large part of the work of trade unions and safety representatives is about understanding how each employee experiences their workplace and creating improvements. SJ, a Swedish railway company, makes that work easy by focusing on the team level and giving each manager a digital, modern employee survey as a tool.

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SJ’s journey from a traditional to a modern employee survey

Our clients share May 20, 2022

"We had emphasized working annually with action planning, which does not feel relevant anymore. Things are moving so fast now; our development changes so quickly that we need to work with small steps instead."

- Henrik Månsson, Head of HR Strategy at SJ

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From comprehensive annual action plans to continuous agile improvement work

Our clients share May 20, 2022

SJ changed its way of working and increased its understanding of the employee experience, simplified the managers' feedback to the team, and included employees in taking responsibility for continuous improvement work.

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Populum partners with CatalystOne to offer customers a modern employee survey

News April 26, 2022

Populum, a Nordic leader in employee experience insights, and CatalystOne, an HCM systems provider, have entered a partnership where Populum powers the Empployee Listening module in CatalystOne’s human capital management solution.

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The Future of Work Life

Tips & ideas, Employee experience November 15, 2021

“The Future of Work Life” is a study about the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on our work life. The study is based on interviews with over 100 HR leaders in Sweden and was developed in 2021 by Populum in collaboration with Sweden's HR Association. 

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The 13 main problems with the annual employee survey and what to do instead

Tips & ideas, Employee experience October 20, 2021

The need for organizations to manage the employee experience and well-being more frequently is rapidly increasing. This shift is primarily driven by our world changing faster with organizations following suit and new, evolving expectations of the younger generations.

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Ambea's Teambarometer: For an active workforce

Our clients share, Tips & ideas October 10, 2021

Ambea's most important resource is its employees. Employee engagement and participation are crucial for employee and workplace well-being and the organization's results. To know their current employee experience, they use their Teambarometer every six weeks. The correlation between more responses in the Teambarometer and higher employee engagement and participation is clear.

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