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Can You Prove Your Employee Value Proposition?
But positive intention isn’t the same as demonstrating impact so the problem isn’t intention, it’s evidence.
18 June 2026Read more →
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Awards
9 Signs your organisation is ready for The Investors in People Awards
Not sure whether The Investors in People Awards are right for your organisation?
7 April 2026Read more →
Leadership
Workplace stress is a leadership issue
Stress Awareness Month will bring a familiar wave of advice about looking after ourselves at work.
1 April 2026Read more →
Awards
7 Reasons Why Your Organisation Should Enter The Investors in People Awards 2026
Great workplaces don’t happen by accident and deserve recognition.
31 March 2026Read more →
Apprenticeships
What a high-quality first year apprenticeship really looks like
Start your apprenticeship accreditation journey with We Invest in Apprentices
10 February 2026Read more →
Apprenticeships
How apprenticeships can create client-ready professionals
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10 February 2026Read more →
Apprenticeships
From Apprentice to Head of Events
Start your apprenticeship accreditation journey with We Invest in Apprentices
9 February 2026Read more →
Continuous Improvement
From continuous improvement to continuous learning
Continuous improvement has long been the hallmark of high-performing organisations.
2 February 2026Read more →
Continuous Improvement
Change as a constant: what it takes for organisations to last
In 2026 the defining leadership challenge will not be managing change but sustaining it.
28 January 2026Read more →
Performance
The empathy gap in performance management
Empathy is emerging as the missing ingredient in performance management because the brain interprets fairness as a core performance signal.
20 January 2026Read more →
Performance
Productivity’s people problem
The UK’s productivity story remains stubbornly flat.
14 January 2026Read more →
Continuous Improvement
From resilience to readiness: how to build organisations that thrive on change
Resilience has long been a corporate mantra.
7 January 2026Read more →
Leadership
Middle managers: the missing link in change leadership
Middle managers remain one of the most overlooked levers of organisational performance.
8 December 2025Read more →
Leadership
The Long Game: Why leadership is a journey and not a job title
No one becomes a great leader overnight.
26 August 2025Read more →
Wellbeing
When Managers Break: How manager wellbeing is the missing link in organisational success
There is no job quite like people management.
22 August 2025Read more →
Continuous Improvement
Management without training is management without impact
It’s one of the most damaging myths in the modern workplace: that great managers simply emerge through experience or technical expertise.
20 August 2025Read more →
Leadership
System Failure: Poor leadership as a design problem rather than a talent problem
When leadership goes wrong we tend to blame the individual.
18 August 2025Read more →
Leadership
Leadership is Personal: Why personality, not perfection, builds better managers
We often talk about leadership as if it’s a job title.
29 July 2025Read more →
Awards
6 Reasons why your organisation should enter The Investors in People Awards 2025
The Investors in People Awards 2025 are now open, and whether you’re a small business, a third sector community, or a global organisation, entering could be one of the most valuable decisions you make this year.
11 July 2025Read more →
Performance
The benefits of employee upskilling in today’s workplace
As technological change accelerates, the need for continuous upskilling has become essential for organisations looking to retain top talent, drive performance and strengthen resilience.
16 April 2025Read more →
Leadership
Building resilience through change: the role of managers in combating change fatigue
Change is now a constant in the workplace.
25 March 2025Read more →
Continuous Improvement
Fostering Workplace Innovation: From Employee Empowerment to Organisational Growth
In November last year (2024) UK prime minister Sir Keir Starmer pledged that his would be the Government that “delivers the innovation and reform our country needs”.1 His message reflects what many business leaders already recognise: fostering a culture of innovation is essential to resilience, competitiveness and sustainable growth.
18 March 2025Read more →
Employee Engagement
Employee recognition without the price tag: How organisations can reward people amid new regulatory pressures
The UK’s Employment Rights Bill, heralded as the most significant overhaul of workers’ rights in decades, presents new challenges for businesses.
12 March 2025Read more →
Wellbeing
Beyond the breaking point: Is hybrid work the answer to burnout?
Burnout has become a defining challenge for modern workplaces.
4 March 2025Read more →
Performance
Boosting employee productivity in tough times: How HR can drive performance
The UK’s productivity challenge is no secret but 2025 brings fresh pressures that threaten to deepen the strain on businesses.
25 February 2025Read more →
Employee Engagement
Empowering employees in the Workplace AI era: Tech, equity and engagement
As automation and artificial intelligence (AI) continue to revolutionise the workplace, the big question is how companies can harness these technologies equitably.
19 February 2025Read more →
Employee Engagement
Purpose beyond profit: Embedding organisational values to attract Gen Z talent
Generation Z, born between 1997 and 2012, will soon form a significant portion of the workforce, comprising around 27% by 2025.
12 February 2025Read more →
Employee Engagement
How transparency builds trust and retention amid economic uncertainty
As the UK faces a deepening budget deficit and global uncertainties going into 2025, creating a climate where transparent communication from leadership is more critical than ever for employee trust and retention.
16 January 2025Read more →
Wellbeing
Who’s responsible for wellbeing anyway?
As 2024 comes to an end, it seems health and wellbeing is on employers’ agendas like never before.
25 November 2024Read more →
Wellbeing
Proving the link between wellbeing and organisational performance
HR leaders are uniquely positioned to champion the critical link between employee wellbeing and organisational success.
13 November 2024Read more →
Wellbeing
7 ways for your organisation to develop and embed a culture of wellbeing
‘You can’t put a clean fish back in a dirty tank.’ An odd expression it may seem, particularly in relation to workplace wellbeing.
29 October 2024Read more →
Wellbeing
How leaders can transform workplace wellbeing: Part 3
The Make Work Better Conference 2024 was a testament to the growing importance of embedding a culture of wellbeing in the workplace.
10 October 2024Read more →
Wellbeing
How leaders can transform workplace wellbeing: Part 2
The Make Work Better conference was a testament to the growing importance of embedding a culture of wellbeing in the workplace.
9 October 2024Read more →
Wellbeing
How leaders can transform workplace wellbeing: Part 1
The Make Work Better Conference 2024 was a testament to the growing importance of embedding a culture of wellbeing in the workplace.
8 October 2024Read more →
Wellbeing
How to overcome leadership resistance to investment in wellbeing
Securing funding for employee wellbeing has never been easy but in today’s challenging economic environment it is more difficult than ever.
4 June 2024Read more →
Apprenticeships
National Apprenticeship Week: how we’ve made apprenticeships work for us
It’s National Apprenticeship Week and we thought what better way to demonstrate the benefit of having an apprentice than by showing you how we’ve done it here: who our apprentices are, what they do and how they feel we’ve performed as their apprenticeship provider.
5 February 2024Read more →
Apprenticeships
How to create a high-quality apprenticeship scheme that delivers for all
Now in its seventeenth year, National Apprenticeship Week has long been seen as a fantastic way of raising awareness of apprenticeships.
1 February 2024Read more →
Employee Engagement
Values refresh: what we learned when we decided to look again at who we are
There are certain HR topics which make people’s eyes glaze over and, like it or not, values is one of them.
10 October 2023Read more →
Employee Engagement
Paul Devoy: Why only hiring A-players doesn’t guarantee success
How does an organisation create a strong, high-performing team when they aren’t in a position to recruit the Alphas in the working world?
28 September 2023Read more →
Apprenticeships
Making Work Better: How apprenticeships can futureproof your workforce
Perceptions of apprenticeships are changing.
14 September 2023Read more →
Continuous Improvement
Making work better: creating a family-friendly workplace
How family friendly is your workplace?
5 September 2023Read more →
Leadership
Making work better: Steven Bartlett on leadership best practice
The name Steven Bartlett will be familiar to anyone keen to succeed in business.
21 August 2023Read more →
Apprenticeships
Apprenticeships can hold the key to a successful future for our students
Investors in People invest in their people, their community, and the thousands of employees within this collective group.
17 August 2023Read more →
Employee Engagement
Making Work Better: putting the employee experience at the heart of your organisation
A decade ago the term “employee experience” didn’t exist.
14 August 2023Read more →
Employee Engagement
Making Work Better: AI and its impact on the employee experience
AI has been getting a lot of press recently and, rightly or wrongly, the prospect of a future dominated by such technology scares many.
10 August 2023Read more →
Continuous Improvement
Making Work Better: the future of HR
If there’s one thing everyone can agree on when it comes to the future of work, it’s that recent history proves how quickly things can change.
1 August 2023Read more →
Wellbeing
Banishing the Sunday Night Blues: Advice for Employers and Employees
It’s Sunday night.
15 June 2023Read more →
Apprenticeships
Connecting Professionals: How to develop a truly successful apprenticeship programme
Developing a successful apprenticeship programme is a bit like an apprenticeship – you’re on a learning journey.
26 May 2023Read more →
Apprenticeships
How to Improve your Apprenticeship Programme
Apprenticeships are a popular way to develop skills of all kinds within a business.
12 May 2023Read more →
Apprenticeships
Demonstrating the benefits of an apprenticeship scheme
Hiring an apprentice is an investment in the future of your organisation, but if your scheme is in its infancy the chances are that not everyone will understand how much potential it has.
4 May 2023Read more →
Wellbeing
Stop talking about Quiet Quitting (and start talking about investing in your people)
Quiet quitting – the act of coming to work to do just what is expected of you and nothing more – is a buzzword in HR and Leadership circles at the moment.
27 October 2022Read more →
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