Projects

Following development of new organisation values the Home Office is seeking support to understand how best to ensure the values become the ‘lived experience’ of leaders, line managers and staff at all levels. IES are supporting the Home Office with this research project by undertaking a review of external, publicly available data and conducting interviews with examplar organisations to create a view of best practice approaches to embedding values in organisations.

Following development of new organisation values the Home Office is seeking support to understand how best to ensure the values become the ‘lived experience’ of leaders, line managers and staff at all levels. IES are supporting the Home Office with this research project by undertaking a review of external, publicly available data and conducting interviews with examplar organisations to create a view of best practice approaches to embedding values in organisations.

This work aims to address four inter-related questions: How is Defence perceived and understood by different segments of society; How can the nature of work, the workplace and workforce be expected to change between now and 2035?; What are the implications of these changes for Defence; How might Defence prepare for these changes so that it can attract, engage andf retain the workforce that it needs?

The aim of the project is to provide an overview on the spread and impact of health coaching within the NHS Innovation Accelerator Programme. Through the development of organisational impact case studies, IES will explore local outcomes for patients, the workforce, and organisation culture, costs and performance. In addition IES will lay the ground work for future economic evaluation research.

This project will review and update course materials on vision and visioning for a senior leaders development programme on transformational change. IES will examine both the literature (on new thinking and approaches to visioning) and practical examples (where a change vision has transformed public services) over the last ten years.

IES has been commissioned to update course materials on introducing and embedding a culture of innovation. The team will conduct a review of both the academic and ‘grey’ literature and design a conceptual model and accompanying exercises to help senior leader course participants apply their learning to create cultures of innovation back in their own organisations.

Using a randomised controlled trial (RCT) this research project will identify performance and resilience outcomes at both individual and team levels following participation in a mindfulness programme for teams. This is an IES-led research project designed and conducted in collaboration with Cranfield University School of Management.

For Health Education East of England, IES contributed to an online toolkit to support the spread of health coaching as a social movement. Using an evidence-based model of embedding and sustaining change within organisations, we described what needs to happen locally, ie who needs to be influenced, about what and when. IES presented step-by-step guidance, expert commentary, practical advice and ‘top tips’ from early adopters of health coaching.

IES, in partnership with Cranfield University, was commissioned by a government department to conduct a systematic review of industry best practice on workplace mindfulness-based applications. The review considered the potential of mindfulness to support a wide range of HR, Leadership and Organisational Change strategies. We also explored outcomes (intended and unintended) and metrics.

IES worked with the Director of Resources and his team at Harrow Council to address their challenges of succession planning and staff development and to embed still further the positive culture of employee engagement which their Gold Standard IiP award recognised.