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Where to focus in 2026: fewer initiatives, better days

Andy Meredith · 19 February 2026
2026 won’t be won by launching more programmes. It’ll be won by making work feel more workable, reducing daily friction, protecting managers, and rebuilding morale with recognition, clear communication and credible growth pathways.
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Fix Your Wellbeing Strategy: What Managers Are Carrying (and How to Change It)

Michelle Johnson · 26 January 2026
Rising stress, burnout and disengagement aren’t being solved by surface-level wellbeing initiatives. In this article, we explore why traditional wellbeing strategies are failing, the hidden cost this places on managers, and how HR leaders can drive sustainable employee engagement by redesigning how work, recovery and leadership actually operate. True foresight doesn’t come from averages or historical data; it comes from understanding the emotional temperature of your teams in real-time. In this post, we break down why commitment is a result, not a lever, and how tracking emotions like anxiety, trust, and feeling valued can predict turnover intent months before a resignation letter hits your desk. Stop performing autopsies on your culture and start predicting its future.
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The Great Squeeze: Why Line Managers Hold the Key to Performance in 2026

Emma Townsley · 27 November 2025
As 2026 approaches, line managers are facing unprecedented pressure - rising expectations, shrinking resources, and escalating emotional strain across teams. This “Great Squeeze” is already eroding engagement and trust. Without targeted support now, organisations risk entering 2026 with overstretched managers, declining performance, and a weakened leadership pipeline.
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I Survived Five Redundancies. Here’s What Leaders Always Get Wrong About the People Who Stay

Michelle Johnson · 16 November 2025
Thousands talk about redundancies from the perspective of those who leave. Almost no one talks about what it does to the people who stay. After surviving five rounds myself, I share the hidden emotional and cultural fallout, and what leaders must understand if they want engagement, trust, and performance to recover. Do you know what your “survivors” aren’t saying out loud?
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Stop Guessing. Start Listening: How Agile Listening Transforms Employee Engagement

Emma Townsley · 7 November 2025
Traditional employee surveys can’t keep pace with today’s workplace. Emotions shift weekly, yet many organisations still rely on annual snapshots of how people used to feel. Agile listening changes that, turning feedback into a continuous, emotionally intelligent conversation. By combining real-time insights with emotional understanding, leaders can respond faster, build trust, and strengthen engagement across every level of the organisation.
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Managers Hold the Key to Employee Engagement - Here’s How 360° Feedback Helps Them Use It

Michelle Johnson · 27 October 2025
Managers have the power to shape engagement. Discover how 360° feedback helps leaders understand their impact, build self-awareness, and drive employee engagement with Inpulse360
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What the British & Irish Lions Can Teach Us About Employee Engagement

Andy Meredith · 16 July 2025
With the 2025 British and Irish Lions tour in Australia in full swing, Andy Meredith asks what we can learn from the rugby team about healthy employee engagement.
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From Firefighting to Futureproofing: How HR Can Drive Strategic Change

Michelle Johnson · 18 February 2025
Michelle Page unpacks the challenges and strategies behind moving HR from firefighting to embedding leader-led, thriving workforces. Helping HR teams influence senior leaders, build leadership accountability, and transforming their people strategy from reactive to proactive.
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Recognition: It isn’t just a feel-good gesture, it’s a strategic business move

Alex Williams · 25 September 2024
In recognition of World Gratitude Day, Alex Williams explores the value of a culture of recognition and our exciting plans to continually develop the Inpulse engagement platform through 2025.
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What it means to be 'people-centric' and how to establish it

Inpulse Employee Engagement · 22 March 2021
Claiming to be a ‘people-centric’ organisation certainly rakes in the brownie points amongst talent, in industry and amongst consumers, and even within the HR community. It’s why so many organisation’s and HR leaders position themselves ‘people-centric’. Unfortunately, though, many of these organisation’s are not actively people-centric and sadly, don’t even know what it means to […]
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Why it's beneficial to know your organisation's engagement score

Inpulse Employee Engagement · 1 March 2021
Do you know where your organisation stands when it comes to employee engagement? Do you know for certain whether engagement is healthy or not?  HR leaders should know their employee engagement score, and thankfully most do. After all, employee engagement is a high on the agenda amongst most HR teams, especially now when organisation’s are […]
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