Free Guides

Use our guides to find out how to choose the right people success platform, how to create an employee engagement survey and why your approach to diversity and inclusion makes a difference.

Free Guide: From Hello to Goodbye – Mastering Engagement throughout the Employee Lifecycle

Attracting and retaining employees is currently a major priority for many organisations.

To have the best possible chance of addressing this, it is essential that organisations measure the experience of their people throughout the employee lifecycle; understanding why they joined, why they are leaving, and everything in between. 

In this guide, we explore the importance of measuring and optimising engagement at various stages of the employee lifecycle, key insights into retention over the last year, what it looks like practically to measure throughout the employee lifecycle.

Free Guide: Line Managers – The Squeezed Middle

Over the last four years, the role of the line manager has evolved drastically. Many are being left behind, out of touch with the reality of the new ways of working.

With pressure from both sides, managers have become a squeezed middle under more pressure than ever before.

In this free resource from engagement and management specialists Inpulse, discover the root causes of the squeezed middle and how you can support your managers and promote healthy leadership in your business today.

Free Guide: The Evolution of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is one of the fastest-developing areas of people engagement.

This guide will help you to explore the key features of a successful approach to DEI and help you stay on the cutting edge.

Free Guide: Improving Retention through Hygiene and Motivation Factors

Struggling to retain employees? That’s because engagement is more than just happiness and satisfaction.

Improving the employee experience is now recognised as crucial to creating a thriving, happy, productive team. 

But how do we know what action to take? And what actions will actually have the desired impact?

Find out more in our free guide to retention in a post-pandemic workplace.

Free Guide: Engaging with Offline Colleagues

Part of building inclusive cultures is ensuring that all colleagues have the opportunity to feedback and input into the employee experience at their organisation. 

This guide will help you to enhance communication, ensure accessibility, connect through conversation, and maintain ongoing involvement.

Free Guide: Employee Engagement in the Construction and Manufacturing Industry

The importance of employee engagement continues to become more widely recognised yet many of the challenges we hear about in this arena and the strategies described to overcome them remain targeted at sectors with a typical, office-based set-up. 

This guide explores how companies in the construction and manufacturing sectors can see significant growth in their employee engagement by focusing in the right areas.

Free Guide: Employee Engagement in the Transport Industry

The transport sector is going through a period of flux, which from an external perspective appears as complete turmoil. Under the surface, employee engagement is falling behind all other industries.

This guide explores how companies in the transport sector can see significant growth in their employee engagement by focusing in the right areas.

Free Guide: Employee Engagement in 2023 – Where to Focus Your Attention

As we enter a new year, here’s everything you need to pay attention to when it comes to employee engagement in 2023.

Drawing from our own data collected throughout 2022, you’ll discover the trends we’ll be carrying with us into January and beyond. 

We’ll explore the positivity gap, uncover the dominant positive and negative emotions employees are experiencing and explore key areas of change in employee experience.

And we’ll draw on our wealth of engagement knowledge and experience to give you some clear positive steps to take forward in the areas of ConnectionCulture and Collaboration.

Free Guide: Two Things Every Line Manager Can Do To Increase Engagement

‘People leave managers, not companies’ – our research from more than 50,000 employees suggests there’s more truth to this than you might imagine.

In our free guide, discover the aspects of line management which have the greatest impact to employee engagement and how you can make a difference today. You’ll learn: 

  • How line managers can set culture in their teams
  • The factors which underpin excellent line management
  • Two ways you can improve your engagement today

Partner with Inpulse today to learn how line management can make a difference to your employee engagement.

Free Guide: The Impact of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) on Your Engagement Strategy

Employees who feel that their organisation cares about social and environmental responsibility are 2.3 times more engaged at work.

In our free guide, discover why this is the case and explore our solutions to the problem. Including insights into: 

  • How ESG impacts employee engagement scores
  • The impact of ESG on retention
  • How you can improve your approach to ESG

Free Guide: Key Employee Engagement Challenges for the Higher Education Sector

UK Higher Education institutions face a problem: our data shows that engagement scores in Higher Education are 25% lower than the average UK company score.

In our free guide, discover why this is the case and explore our solutions to the problem. Including insights into: 

  • Generation-Z
  • Empowering Managers
  • Communication
  • Employee Wellbeing

and more.

Free Guide: Engaging Generation Z in the Workplace

Establish a well-balanced, diverse company culture and gain an upper hand in the recruitment and retention of diverse talent in a competitive market. 

Our free guide answers these questions:

  • Who are generation Z and what characteristics do they possess?
  • Do their characteristics influence the way they choose an employer, engage, collaborate and communicate?
    If so, how? 
  • What are they good at, what motivates them, what’s important to them? 
  • How can we attract and retain generation Zs in our organisation?
  • How can I give generation Z a voice and meet their needs?
  • How do I establish harmony between generations with different views, opinions and working needs?

Free Guide: Paying Down the Wellbeing Debt

Understand the ‘wellbeing debt’ and find out how you can address it with your people.

This guide will explore:

  • Why there’s a huge wellbeing debt and the impact it’ll have for organisations this year
  • How paying down this debt will lead to more engagement, more productivity and higher retention
  • Practical steps to pay down the wellbeing debt
  • Feeling cared for has changed its meaning. How can we show employees we care?
  • How we can move from transactional to more transformational activities and conversations.

and more.

Free Guide: Diversity & Inclusion Surveys

Learn how to address and improve diversity and inclusion within your organisation.

Go beyond representation of minority group employees, and penetrate six key areas, for the improvement of D&I, including culture, organisational structure, leadership, belonging, opportunity and trust.

Free Guide: Retention – How To Keep Good People

The world of work has moved from the Information Age to the Social Age. Now, more and more people come to work for belonging, connection and purpose. 

In this free guide, discover:

  • The changing nature of recruiting and retaining the skills and talent you need
  • The growing importance of understanding and connecting with individuals
  • The power of engagement in driving retention and how to maximise its impact

and more.

Free Guide: How to Choose the Right People Success Platform

Mapped out an employee engagement strategy and now looking to take the next step?

Start by exploring engagement platforms best suited to your business. In the guide you will learn why it’s important for an engagement platform to align to your needs, goals and vision, learn what to look out for to ensure sure you’re at the cutting edge of engagement (tech, support and more) and discover the four most important factors to consider before choosing an engagement platform.

Free Guide: Conducting an Employee Engagement Survey

Discover how Emotional Analytics can answer:

  • How do employees actually feel about working for our company and why?
  • How do teams feel about their line managers?
  • What do employees feel about the recent changes in the organisation?
  • What do employees feel about management’s approach to their wellbeing?

Free Guide: Leading Your Company Through Change

Discover the psychology of change from a business and people perspective, the ‘Head Heart Hands’ model and Bridges Transition Model of transformational leadership and Inpulse’s six step approach to managing change and transformation in the most effective and efficient way.

Walk away with tangible insights and actions that can be immediately implemented, and which we guarantee you’ll see positive results from.

Free Guide: Conducting an Employee Engagement Survey

Learn how to conduct an employee engagement survey.

Learn to extract the most valuable data about your people, for the purpose of improving productivity, performance and profit, improving recruitment and retention of talent and more.

Discover how best to implement change with the support and commitment of your people, and how to save time, costs and avoid error.

Free Guide: Measuring Emotional Wellbeing for Employees

Discover the wellbeing framework – the seven areas critical to improved engagement and wellbeing and uncover the science behind measuring engagement and wellbeing.

Learn to extract the most valuable data about your people, for the purpose of reducing absenteeism, remedying workplace culture and enhancing customer satisfaction.

Free Guide: Engaging and Developing a High Performing Remote Team

Most managers lack the skills to manage a remote team, never mind engage and develop a high-performing remote team.

Effective remote leadership demands a change in management and communication style which most managers have never had to learn, nor exercise – until now.

Discover comprehensive tips and techniques for managing, engaging and developing high performing remote teams created in collaboration with our founder, Matt Stephens, and learn how to lead charismatically from afar, and improve employee engagement, productivity, performance and team culture and morale.