When management isn't aspirational, organisations fill roles with people who didn't want them. The quality of leadership suffers. The Broken Ladder looks at why and what to do. eu1.hubs.ly/H0zh8lj0
86% of accredited organisations confirm a motivated and engaged workforce.
85% report a positive impact on quality of leadership.
Independently assessed.
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We're at the Brighton Business Expo today until 2pm.
Unsure how accreditation works, or want to know more about assessments led by our practitioners? Come and say hello.
Brighton Racecourse
22 October 2026 | 10.00am to 2.00pm
1 in 4 people have considered leaving their role because of the amount of change at work (IIP / Censuswide, August 2025). In a firm, that pressure lands hardest on people with the most options.
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Trust under pressure. Trust in a changing world. Trust in the age of AI.
Hear Jason Fox, Petra Velzeboer and Laura Willis in Belfast, Edinburgh and Liverpool.
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🎟️ Edinburgh: eu1.hubs.ly/H0zf5G_0
🎟️ Liverpool: eu1.hubs.ly/H0zf5H00
Trust is easy to endorse. Harder to live. The final piece in our Trust Paradox series brings it all together with a practical roadmap for leaders.
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Experienced people and culture specialists, working alongside you as trusted partners. Our practitioners are consistently rated as one of the strongest parts of the experience.
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Only 18% of non-managers see becoming a manager as aspirational.
In manufacturing, supervisors are so often promoted from the floor into a people leadership job almost nobody is reaching for.
The Broken Ladder explores why, and how to fix it:
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44% of organisations say they need external support with wellbeing.
If that sounds familiar, you're in good company.
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The best cultures aren't built by chance.
If that's the conversation you want to have, come and find us at the North West Business Expo in Bolton.
Bolton Wanderers Football Club, Premier Suite
23 October 2026 | 9.00am to 3.00pm
For Jason Fox, trust wasn't a value on a wall. People's lives depended on it.
His session on the foundations of trust at the Make Work Better Conference 2026.
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Next week we'll be exhibiting at the Brighton Business Expo.
If people strategy, leadership development or retention is on your agenda, come and talk it through with our team.
Brighton Racecourse
22 October 2026 | 10.00am to 2.00pm
The challenge in 2026 is not managing change. It is sustaining it. Our piece on what it takes for organisations to last. eu1.hubs.ly/H0yFRZ00
85% of accredited organisations report improved employee engagement, and 85% report improved leadership quality (IIP Community Impact Survey, 2024). If frontline retention is on your mind this year, start here: eu1.hubs.ly/H0yFRPD0
Accreditation gets you recognised.
The community keeps you improving.
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Worried accreditation will add to your workload?
Understandable. Practitioners shape the process around your organisation's context, keeping it light and guided.
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Jason Fox will be joining us exclusively in Liverpool at Trust: Beyond the Paradox, for a new and undoubtedly exciting session: Trust Under Pressure.
Will you be there?
Tickets are on sale now. See you at Anfield!
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We started spreading the news, and look what's happened...
THE INVESTORS IN PEOPLE AWARDS 2026 HAS OFFICIALLY SOLD OUT! 😱
We can't wait to welcome all 800 of you to Old Billingsgate on the 18th November! 🙌
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There is a moment most firms eventually meet: a tender, an interview, a board meeting, where someone asks what the culture actually looks like in practice.
The firms that answer it well tend to have done the work early.
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Two-thirds of employees have avoided speaking openly about something at work in the last six months.
Silence isn't neutral. It's a calculation.
The latest in our Trust series:
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