CIPD Festival Of Work — 10-11 June 2026, Excel London UK. Visit us at stand E71 (opposite the Social Cafe) to talk to us about your engagement challenges
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
‘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 […]
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 […]
At Inpulse we recognise that whilst clients are looking for a more real-time, transparent and simple to use pulse survey, they often use this alongside the annual engagement survey. What I describe below is a fictional story based on real encounters we have had. We hope that you find the story thought provoking and it helps […]
I’m ever amazed that some Executives still struggle to see a clear business case for employee engagement. Beyond the obvious lack of productivity, which occurs when someone is disengaged, there is so much more to why engagement matters. That’s not to say lack of productivity doesn't matter as organisations with a high level of engagement report 21% higher productivity, according to an analysis of 1.4 […]
"How to measure and understand employee engagement in the modern workplace." Imagine a company using a business system from the 1950s , say an IT system or payroll or a performance management system – hard to imagine isn’t it? Yet this is exactly what we do when it comes to employee surveys. Once or twice a […]
