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Programmes for managers

Engaging and confident managers are at the heart of effective employee engagement strategies. IPA has designed programmes from short essential briefings on key topics to longer more in depth skills development programmes to support managers.

How to work effectively with trade unions

How to work effectively with trade unions

The IPA has identified that a serious barrier to positive industrial relations in the UK is the sparse level of knowledge amongst managers about how to work effectively with trade unions. Read more

Published: 28th October, 2025

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Workshops for Managers and Trade Union Representatives

Workshops for Managers and Trade Union Representatives

Personal relationships between the managers and the trade unions are often good but this does not always translate into effective working when discussions relate to pay, policy and re-structures. IPA workshops are designed to improve joint working between managers and trade union representatives to create efficiency and develop shared commitment, understanding and trust at a strategic level and can be used improve employment relations across the organisation. Read more

Published: 27th October, 2025

Updated: 28th October, 2025

Author: Anonymised User

Employee Networks: training for managers and employee representatives

Employee Networks: training for managers and employee representatives

Employee networks help organisations to better understand the needs of diverse consumers and colleague groups. Read more

Published: 24th September, 2021

Updated: 25th June, 2024

Author: Sarah Dawson

Understanding Inclusion

Understanding Inclusion

For organisations to fully benefit from having a diverse workforce, they need a greater understanding of the implications of the diverse world we live in. Read more

Published: 9th October, 2017

Updated: 25th June, 2024

Author: Anonymised User

Solving the Productivity Puzzle

Solving the Productivity Puzzle

Based on our research programme and experience of working with various organisations, the IPA has developed a suite of transformational interventions. Read more

Published: 20th September, 2017

Updated: 25th June, 2024

Author:

Employee engagement

Employee engagement

This training programme focuses around how to use the four key enablers of employee engagement. Read more

Published: 20th September, 2017

Updated: 2nd February, 2026

Author:

Voice: How to listen to your employees

Voice: How to listen to your employees

This suite of diagnostic tools and training from IPA helps leaders and line managers to understand employee voice within their organisation. Read more

Published: 20th September, 2017

Updated: 25th June, 2024

Author:

Leadership and manager coaching for engagement

Leadership and manager coaching for engagement

Our programme of one-to-one and team coaching for managers and senior leaders is designed to support organisations in achieving transformative employee engagement. Read more

Published: 6th September, 2017

Updated: 25th June, 2024

Author: Anonymised User

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  • Beyond rhetoric: what is really sustaining – or undermining – DEI in UK workplaces?

    Beyond rhetoric: what is really sustaining – or undermining – DEI in UK workplaces?

    Diversity, equality and inclusion (DEI) has not disappeared from organisational agendas, but it is under pressure. It feels more fragile, more contested, and harder to sustain than it did a few years ago. Dr Meenakshi Krishnan, Principal Research Fellow at IES reflects on what is driving inclusion and fairness in organisations right now? How are current labour market challenges strengthening or complicating the case for DEI? And what would make DEI feel like core business?

  • What new sectoral bargaining could mean for pay and workforce stability

    What new sectoral bargaining could mean for pay and workforce stability

    Naomi Cooke, Head of Workforce at the Local Government Association, reflects on what the introduction of a new model of sectoral bargaining could mean for local government employers and beyond. The Employment Rights Act represents a real sea-change.  Two comparatively small provisions denote a significant shift in how pay, terms and conditions will be set, by establishing the first statutory collective pay bargaining mechanisms in England since wage councils were abolished in the 1990s.

  • IPA Employee Voice Survey

    IPA Employee Voice Survey

    Strong employee voice helps organisations make better decisions, manage change more effectively and build trust at work. To understand how this works in practice, we asked employee representatives, forum and staff council chairs, and others involved in voice arrangements to share their experiences via an online survey.

  • The five disruptors of the UK industrial model

    The five disruptors of the UK industrial model

    With prescience and clarity, the outgoing Chair of ACAS, Clare Chapman, in a recent address to the IPA’s Work Insights Network identified the five ‘disruptors’ which are upending the UK’s industrial model. IPA director, Nita Clarke OBE considers how the political and policy response to these disruptors will determine the shape and success of our economy going forward. April 2026

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  • Why is diversity, equality and inclusion important?

    Why is diversity, equality and inclusion important?

    There is barely an organisation that does not pay lip service to the importance of diversity, equality and inclusion in their company vision.

  • What is Employee Voice?

    What is Employee Voice?

    Employee voice exists, whether you recognise it or not. The only question is – "are you listening?"

  • Statutory Employee Consultation and the Role of the Employee Representative

    Employment law requires organisations to collectively inform and consult with its employees in relation to certain proposed changes

  • Who are IPA?

    The IPA is the UK's leading organisation delivering new ways of working based on employee participation, collaboration and trust.

  • What is Engagement?

    What is Engagement?

    Employee engagement is seen by a growing number of organisations as a key issue in measuring employee attitudes and establishing a strong employer brand.

  • The Business Case for Employee Voice

    Outlining the evidence supporting the business case for listening to the workforce.

  • Staff Forum or Trade Union. Why not both?

    Staff Forum or Trade Union. Why not both?

    There is continuing debate about whether a staff forum can be as effective as a trade union.

  • Is Thursday the new Friday? The future of working time

    Is Thursday the new Friday? The future of working time

    This paper by IPA on behalf of FES lays out the current state of the UK debate around working time reductions and the campaign for a four-day week.

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    Nita Clarke OBE

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  • Learning and development programmes

    Learning and development programmes

    The IPA offers a range of training and consultancy services for managers and employee representatives, to improve engagement, productivity and set up effective employee voice structures.

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