At The Pioneers we love meeting people who manage their businesses differently. I interviewed Peter Kelly, founder of IT infrastructure provider Softcat, about his innovative approach to managing people.

Download a copy of our Company Narrative Canvas and start to create your own company story.

If you want to change your employees behaviour or decision making… don’t just use methods that speak to the rational rider (slow brain), because unless you can engage the emotional elephant nothing’s going to change.

At The Pioneers, we think having employees who are intrinsically motivated to do their work is critical to sustaining high levels of engagement, great customer experiences and good business performance. We think there are seven sources of intrinsic motivation that people managers and businesses should be aware of...

Creating and communicating the strategic narrative (or company story) of a business is now a well established practice in employee engagement. In this blog, we share the three qualities we think distinguish the best strategic narratives from the rest.

Company culture doesn’t determine behaviour – a cultural norm (what you need to do to fit in) isn’t the only thing that might affect how a team member behaves – but in a people system, your culture is almost certain to be the biggest influence on your people’s day-to-day behaviour and decision making.