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 · 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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Inpulse Employee Engagement · 25 July 2019
Employee engagement is a concept that can make a significant contribution to business success, yet in many ways, is still poorly understood and unappreciated. Sending round an annual employee survey might have been considered sufficient in previous generations, but there’s far more to employee engagement than asking everyone to fill in a questionnaire once a […]
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Inpulse Employee Engagement · 11 July 2019
The Inpulse team has just returned from Amsterdam, where we took part in this year’s HRD Europe conference. It was energising and exciting to meet and share thoughts with leading HRDs, talent specialists, learning and development experts and engagement practitioners. Dominic Walters, our Director of Consulting, presented on the ‘Secret recipe of engagement’. The presentation […]
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Inpulse Employee Engagement · 20 June 2019
In many ways, engaged and motivated employees are the foundation of a successful business. When your team share your vision, are committed to the company’s values and are working towards the same mission, it’s much easier for management to steer the ship in the right direction. So how do you engage – and continue to […]
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Inpulse Employee Engagement · 15 April 2019
Attracting and keeping good people is a major challenge for financial services. The reputational impact of the crash ten years ago is still casting a long shadow, while the world of big tech is increasingly alluring to the best talent. From our experience in the financial services sector, there are three things to focus on […]
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Inpulse Employee Engagement · 15 April 2019
Emotions drive behaviour, even for the most logical of us. That’s why Inpulse starts by understanding how people feel and why they feel that way. Emotions have a massive impact on engagement and Inpulse helps you be clear on what they are and, where needed, what needs to happen to shift them. For people to […]
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Inpulse Employee Engagement · 15 April 2019
Culture is about the way an organisation gets things done. It’s a key issue in construction as we know from our work with two large construction businesses- Kier Group and Balfour Beatty. Having the right culture means being clear on the behaviours needed from people, and helping people to live them. This means working with […]
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Inpulse Employee Engagement · 8 April 2019
How we feel has a massive impact on what we do, which in turn affects the outcomes we get. We are all driven far more by emotion than most of us like to admit – Daniel Kahneman’s work into how we make decisions has shown this. That’s why we start every Inpulse survey with the question, ‘How […]
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Inpulse Employee Engagement · 8 April 2019
‘Your call is highly valued by us… please wait for the next available colleague…’ We have all heard this or something similar when contacting call centres. Many of us will take it with a pinch of salt because our past dealings with the organisation concerned have suggested that we are not actually all that valued. We know that […]
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Inpulse Employee Engagement · 8 April 2019
Having spent the last year out and about meeting prospective clients, I found that most companies I visited undertake an annual survey. I have written previously on the issues that can arise with big once-a-year surveys, however, what I was surprised by was that many of these companies view the annual survey as the pinnacle of their employee engagement. Rather than seeing […]
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