Inpulse Employee Engagement · 4 February 2020
High employee turnover is a challenging, costly affair for organisations. When people leave, replacement costs can amount to 50-60% of an employee’s annual salary, according to research from The Society for Human Resource Management. It can damage company culture, affect productivity, profit and more, which is why organisations should invest in proven retention tools and […]
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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 · 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 · 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 · 24 May 2019
‘Annual performance review’ -three words that frequently strike terror into the hearts of team leaders and team members alike. For the former they represent endless form filling and back to back awkward conversations in stuffy rooms. For the latter they mean self-justification, and uncomfortable, stilted discussions with the boss. This may be a slight exaggeration, but it’s certainly true […]
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Inpulse Employee Engagement · 13 May 2019
Talking recently with a group of communicators from the pharmaceutical sector, the conversation turned to the placebo effect – where medicines which have no active ingredient are given to patients for psychological rather than physiological reasons. In other words, the drugs themselves will have no chemical impact, but often the belief that they are doing some good heartens the patient and this can aid […]
Read moreInpulse Employee Engagement · 8 May 2019
I attended a European Referendum debate in my local Methodist church last week. As you’d expect the debate made it’s way round to sovereignty and as I sat there listening to the two sides of the argument I couldn't help but think how similar the concepts of sovereignty and values are. For a start, both are concepts we feel are […]
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