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What a trip to Mumbai taught me about bias, diversity & leading with empathy
A classroom unlike any other What happens when you put 20 senior leaders from 9 countries, across 4 continents, into a room in Mumbai for...
Scott McInnes
Feb 20, 20244 min read
Keeping Culture Strong in a Hybrid Working Environment
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, hybrid work environments are the new norm for many organisations. While the flexibility and...
Scott McInnes
Feb 20, 20243 min read
Why Culture Change Initiatives Often Fail & How To Prevent It
Introduction Your organisational culture, along with your operating model and strategy, is critical to high performance. The alignment of...
Scott McInnes
Nov 20, 20233 min read
Bridging the Gap: Connecting Employees with the Organisation’s Vision
Every organisation should have a clear and compelling vision that is aligned with their purpose, and every person in that organisation...
Scott McInnes
Oct 13, 20233 min read
When A Payments Scandal Is The Tip Of The Culture Iceberg
Our national broadcaster, RTÉ (Raidió Teilifís Éireann), is deeply embedded in the nation's cultural fabric. Over the years, RTÉ has...
Scott McInnes
Aug 22, 20233 min read
Embedding Values is Key to Success
Making Your Values More Meaningful Over the years, we’ve worked with lots of organisations to help them either create new values or...
Scott McInnes
Feb 28, 20233 min read
How to Connect Your Employees to Your Strategy
How can you get your employees to care about your organisational strategy? (because right now, they probably don't). It is not what any...
Scott McInnes
Dec 21, 20224 min read
The Role of Senior Leaders in Creating Values-led Organisations
What are organisational values, and where do they come from? Organisational values tell us what is important within an organisation, just...
Scott McInnes
Oct 27, 20223 min read
Align Recognition Programs to Organisational Culture
Question: Is Your recognition programme aligned with the culture you want to have? When recognition is discussed in the same breath as...
Scott McInnes
Jul 25, 20223 min read
The Role of Senior Sponsors In Culture Change
A tricky business is culture change. Peter Drucker once said, “…culture eats strategy for breakfast”. It’s true that rationalising a...
Scott McInnes
Jul 7, 20222 min read
Work Rituals For Hybrid Teams
The St. Regis hotel brand has rituals in every corner of its properties. The Bloody Mary cocktail, for example, was said to have been...
Scott McInnes
Jun 23, 20223 min read
Inspiring Change Becomes Denison Global Partner
We’re excited to announce that Inspiring Change has been named a Denison Global Partner. We don’t believe that a great culture is just...
Sarah Cameron
Jun 3, 20221 min read
Future World of Work
It's been a year since we talked about the future world of work. In Episode 61 of Building Better Cultures, Kevin Empey of Dublin-based...
Sarah Cameron
May 17, 20223 min read
Customer Experience Impacts Employee Experience
Organisations have many different stakeholders – two of the most important groups are customers and employees. The ideals of Customer...
Sarah Cameron
May 5, 20223 min read
Creating Psychological Safety At Work
If there's one thing the last two years have told us, it's that the employees have renewed yearning for trust and openness. Equally, the...
Sarah Cameron
Apr 12, 20223 min read
Hiring for Culture Fit or Values Fit
Often touted as the next generation of recruitment, values-based hiring seeks to attract those who align with an organisations values or...
Sarah Cameron
Mar 29, 20223 min read
Happy International Women's Day 2022
#BreakTheBias is the theme for this year’s International Women’s Day 2022. “Imagine a gender-equal world. A world free of bias,...
Sarah Cameron
Mar 8, 20222 min read
Companies Don't Change - People Do
It's getting ever more challenging to keep on top of changing customer needs. To add to the fun, the needs of employees are changing too....
Scott McInnes
Mar 1, 20223 min read
Don't Trip Up On Change
Getting change wrong is a sadly common occurrence in organisational management. To make matters worse, the speed of which the working...
Scott McInnes
Feb 15, 20223 min read
Connection Is King
For many people, it’s easy to think of hybrid working like hybrid cars – we know they’re out there, we know they’re a good thing, but...
Scott McInnes
Feb 1, 20223 min read
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