Inpulse Employee Engagement · 29 January 2020
People analytics is essentially hard-data that provides management with insight into their workforce. By using people analytics, management is able to access everything from emotion to level of skill within their teams, which assists in the improvement of employee engagement, recruitment, retention, motivation, performance and more. It’s never been more challenging for organisations to recruit […]
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Inpulse Employee Engagement · 20 January 2020
Management and leadership are two different things. When it comes to meeting objectives, management exercises a delegative approach, while leadership are all about teamwork. Leaders sell a vision; they’re optimistic about opportunities and get their teams excited to invest in and help establish goals and objectives to fulfil them. Leaders see no hierarchical gap between […]
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Inpulse Employee Engagement · 15 January 2020
The impacts of employee engagement extend far beyond the office. It's not limited to the workforce, but rather extends across customer borders, impacting customer satisfaction. For all organisations, no matter the industry or the product or service they provide, without customers they would not survive. And, of course, the one way of building customer loyalty […]
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Inpulse Employee Engagement · 7 January 2020
Build well-aligned teams Teamwork is one of the most vital elements to ensuring business goals and objectives are met, and failing to build a winning team will not only cost the business, but damage culture. To become more people-focussed and goal-oriented, teams ought to be strategically created, taking into consideration variations in skill set, personality, […]
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Inpulse Employee Engagement · 8 December 2019
It’s likely you’ve heard the term ‘employee experience’, because it’s become a hot-topic in the world of work, particularly in forward-thinking human resources departments. Now, while you may think it’s the new ‘buzz-word’, there’s good reason for the fuss. We have entered a period of transformation when it comes to work and the running of […]
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Inpulse Employee Engagement · 2 December 2019
Most people cringe at the word ‘artificial intelligence’, especially when spoken in the workplace. It’s unfortunately associated with robots and replacements, being an ‘error-free smart machine’ that could carry out almost any task more accurately and efficiently than any human. While some highly advanced AI technologies could do just that, it’s unlikely human labour will […]
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Inpulse Employee Engagement · 27 November 2019
If you asked your employees just a few years ago to consider one department within the organisation that resembled a ‘police department’, it’s likely they’d have said ‘HR’. Why? Because just a few years ago this department was solely associated with hiring, firing, performance reviews, warnings, grievances; all the functions that created unease amongst the […]
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Inpulse Employee Engagement · 29 August 2019
In 2012 I ran the Dublin marathon, it took a lot of hard work, focus and commitment and that was just the training! In preparation, as someone who didn’t run regularly, I had to decide what shoes to get and as always I had more fun choosing the shoes than necessarily running in them! I tried a few different brands before I came across ASICS - a […]
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Inpulse Employee Engagement · 22 August 2019
For the last 15 years I’ve had the privilege of coaching leaders and managers often to help with improving their performance which inevitably includes looking at how they communicate. In the day(s) that I coach a group of leaders I have to be at my best, fully present, fully focused, fully energised. I literally bring the energy for […]
Read moreInpulse Employee Engagement · 15 August 2019
As I've been getting some r&r time on holiday in Ireland I've found myself reflecting on the whole topic of leadership, my experiences as one at Inpulse and working with many in the corporate, charity and faith sectors over the last two decades. Over the next month I will be sharing a nugget from these reflections each week, so here is my first little nugget for you to ponder and see what […]
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Inpulse Employee Engagement · 8 August 2019
It’s a well-known fact that for most people, the thought of change can be an alarming prospect that’s best avoided. The reality of change is often very different, and in many cases, turns out to be an improvement; but the instinct I’ve found over years of working with companies going through change is that most […]
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