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How can businesses improve employee motivation and productivity?

by | Sep 8, 2022

Employee Experience and Engagement
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How can businesses improve employee motivation and productivity?

In this podcast we are joined by our HR Transformation Senior Manager Debbie Mitchell to talk about a book she wrote, called 50 Top Tools for Employee Engagement. The book discusses how you don’t need expensive interventions to improve employee motivation. Chris speaks with Debbie as she explains some of the tools in the book.

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