Projects and case studies

  • Developing effective business operations for LSIS

    IES supported LSIS to establish a common understanding of what it means for a provider to be effective across all aspects of its business and operations, ie both in terms of it's own management and business processes and its delivery. The project...

  • Family Nurse workforce survey

    The Family Nurse Partnership (FNP) programme is well established in the USA, where there is a body of evidence to demonstrate its success. Family Nurses work with disadvantaged families, specifically during pregnancy and the child's first two...

  • Staff survey and pay benchmarking

    For the Architects' Registration Board (ARB), we carried out two pieces of work: pay and reward benchmarking, and a staff survey with associated focus groups. The ARB's activities are specialised, so it is not directly comparable to most private,...

  • Employee engagement in Higher Education Institutions - a toolkit

    UCEA and Universities HR commissioned IES to develop an evidence-based toolkit for HEIs on employee engagement. The aim of the project was to provide a practical framework for use by those in leadership roles in HEIs in building employee...

  • An evaluation of the Leading Large Scale Change Support Programme

    As a follow up to the evaluation of the Academy for Large Scale Change, IES was asked to evaluate a new programme for teams leading large scale change. This involved case studies of team projects as well as assessing the impact on team capability...

  • Workshop on building employee engagement and workforce productivity

    NHS Employers run a series of workshops to support the Quality, Innovation, Productivity and Prevention (QIPP) workforce agenda. IES delivered an evidence-based, practical session on how to work with individuals' strengths to build employee...

  • Strengths and engaging manager Knowledge Knibbles for Lewisham/Greenwich

    Over the past two years, IES has been running short events – we call them ‘Knowledge Knibbles’ – for line managers in two London boroughs, Lewisham and Greenwich. These have covered two topics: strengths-based management and engaging behaviours....

  • Fourth Employer Work-Life Balance Employer Survey 2013

    IES worked with IFF Research on the Fourth Work-Life Balance Employer Survey, commissioned by BIS. The survey built on the most recent Work-Life Balance Employer Survey, dating from 2007, and aimed to examine working hours of managerial and non...

  • Training course: Coaching for HR Professionals

    IES delivered coaching skills training for HR professionals in the Advisory and Mediation Services team at the Department for Business, Innovations & Skills

  • Work to inform the development of the new Leadership College

    The Learning and Skills Improvement Service wished to conduct an audit of the previous and current leadership initiatives that had been achieved in the sector, with the intention that the audit would inform an impact assessment of initiatives to...