Programmes

Our researchers work collaboratively with our consultants  to offer leading edge-solutions to today's public and private sector organisations. 

We have specific expertise in the following:

HR Strategy - The Future of HR

High-impact HR needs to be both resilient and adaptive. We work with HR leaders to help them develop a confident HR function that has the capacity to pursue a futures agenda, whilst meeting the current needs of the organisation.

Our new programme and research into The Future of HR will produce findings which will help organisations understand the sources of their own performance and which HR practices make a significant contribution.  Which practices work? How do they work?  Why do they work?

Our consultants apply these finding when working with organisations wishing to best manage their people and question whether the current model of HR is producing optimum results in terms of people and performance. We also help develop employee engagement strategies

For futher infomation about how we can improve your HR practices please contact:

Leadership - Leading for Sustainable High Performance

Leadership plays a key role in both performance of organisations and their culture and therefore is a key driver of good work and organisational well being.

Our experience shows that an effective leadership team is the foundation of future success. Leaders must be able to deliver results. We work with decision makers to help them engage and motivate their people, inspiring their trust and commitment.

Our Leading for High Performance Research will addresses the relationship between leadership and high performance. It seeks to isolate those leadership actions and behaviours that promote sustainable high performance outcomes.

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Health and Wellbeing at Work

The Health and Wellbeing programme seeks to promote a systemic approach to creating healthy workplaces. Health at work is about more than people being physically well. Our research shows the importance of the way in which work is organised, jobs are designed and management practices are implemented to the establishment and sustainment of a healthy work environment and in preventing work related and non-work related health issues from developing or worsening.

Our team of experts are at the forefront of the policy debate about the interaction of work and health. We produce leading edge research, and have a strong track record of working with organisations to overcome problems associated with this agenda.

 What we do and how we can work with you:

The success of the economy and the organisations within it will depend on the balance of work life quality and performance. The Health and Wellbeing programme team has a deep-rooted understanding of organisations grounded in the evidence that enables us to turn insights into practical advice, learning and action. We work with private sector global industries (petro chemical, pharmaceutical and energy companies), SMEs and with central government on health and well-being issues.

We provide advice and support through research and consultancy on proven employee engagement methodologies, implementation strategies and change management principles.

We tailor our methods, skills and degrees of involvement to the requirements of each organisation, but a sample of how we help organisations includes:

• designing health and wellbeing strategy
• facilitating implementation of health and wellbeing strategies analysing existing data to gain new insights
• identifying and collecting baseline data
• setting up “pilots”, “demonstrator sites” or “early implementer” schemes
• evaluating success of schemes

designing line manager training

For further information about how we can help your organisation develop well-being strategies please contact:

Ideopolis – enabling cities to thrive in the changing economy

For cities to thrive in the increasingly knowledge intensive economy it is vital they understand their distinctive economic, social and environmental circumstances, and how to capitalise upon their strengths.

Our combination of policy knowledge, rigorous research and practical insight help us to provide strategic advice to places that are creating economic development strategies; supporting them to bring stakeholders together to have a shared vision of the future of their place. Our work, combining economic and social analysis, is tailored to the needs of each city we work with, whilst allowing for comparison and benchmarking.

We also work with leaders from the public, private and third sectors through our City Leaders Network to share expertise and inspire new thinking.

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Employee Surveys

The Work Foundation now offers surveys through Facta Consult, its nominated Employee Surveys Provider. This team were previously responsible for managing surveys on behalf of The Work Foundation and have now set up their own company to continue to provide surveys and a range of other diagnostic tools. Facta Consult will continue to provide a tailored partnership approach, ensuring that surveys are focused on specific business needs, while still offering benchmarks thanks to continued access to The Work Foundation's database of organisational results'.

For further information contact:

http://www.factaconsult.com/

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