Workplace compliance advisors Legal Island has published a book for SMEs on how to keep your workforce engaged and highly motivated even in times of crisis and recession.

Mastering Small Business Employee Engagement is a self-help book for the those running either an SME or a team of people in a larger organisation and was written by Barry Phillips and Jayne Gallagher, chief executive and managing director of Legal Island.

The book includes a chapter on how to keep remote workers engaged, a topic that is engaging many SME and team leaders at the moment.

According to Gallagher: “The book is a brutally honest account of the many initiatives that worked and those that didn’t on our way to building our workforce that has, over the past two decades, produced outstanding events and services time and again.”

The book is available on Amazon at £15 (€16.50) for the print edition and £7 for the Kindle version. The practical guide and reference manual also explains the eight essential components of employee engagement, plus Gallagher’s and Phillips’ 30 Quick Wins and HR Hacks.

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The Belfast company was founded in 1998 by Phillips, a barrister, mediator, and coach who speaks widely on compliance matters and is a mentor to several British and Irish companies. 

Gallagher is a business studies graduate and qualified chartered marketeer, a TedX speaker, mentor and coach, and runs the business day-to-day.

The notion of tips and tricks to raise motivation and engage employees certainly struck home with one buyer, who said: “I was going to give this book a four out of five because I thought it lacked enough material on motivating younger people. But what tipped it into a five is that it is packed full of really useful engagement tools, templates and case studies. I thought it was easy to read with a great index, allowing me to use it as a reference guide too.”

Photo: Barry Phillips and Jayne Gallagher. (Pic: Kelvin Boyes / Presseye)