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Sustainability inspires business, brand and employer brand transformation

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Our managing director, Rachel Bevans, encourages seeking the goodness in your sustainability plan to inspire business, brand and employer brand transformation, whilst avoiding greenwashing. Written for First 5000. Stakeholder demand for organisations to be responsible is increasing We’re now living in the decade towards 2030 UN Sustainable Development Goals, and with COP26 literally around the […]

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The cost of focussing on customer acquisition

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Our Managing Director, Rachel Bevans, analyses a recent experience to consider the cost of focusing on customer acquisition without a balanced approach to retention. The scenario You’re a loyal customer of 10 years with a monthly subscription service, costing $102 a month. You go to login to your account and see exactly the same package

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Alignment

Mind the gap: when people, brand and business are disconnected

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Our Managing Director, Rachel Bevans, gathers insights from latest research to understand the relationship between trust and alignment. Trust in brands is low A recent study by Havas found that only 39% of brands are seen as trustworthy, with 71% of consumers having little faith that brands will deliver on their promises. These findings highlight

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Building trust in uncertainty calls for alignment

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Purpose-led leadership aligns people, planet and profit Purpose-led leaders agree that the role of a business is to create long-term value for all stakeholders, achieving the triple bottom line of people, planet and profit. This is alignment in its purest form – aligning customers, employees and key stakeholders around a common purpose, values and identity

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Criticizing the Competitor Does not Win Customer Trust

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From years of research across multiple categories, in general, people don’t trust other people, brands or businesses that criticize the competitor. It doesn’t show great sportsmanship. And if you don’t have enough good to say about your own brand, without criticizing the competitor, then you have a problem. Banks Bashing Banks Over the weekend, I

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Does your brand deliver against its promises to customers and employees?

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The hypothesis (our approach) Aligning people, brands and experiences around a common purpose, values and idea ensures the brand consistently delivers against its promise to customers, employees and stakeholders. The reality (our survey) Our pulse survey indicates what the situation really looks like: There is a gap of 50 percentage points between aligned and not

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The power of alignment: employee and company purpose and values

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Research by Gallup indicates that “When workers are engaged but not aligned with their organisation’s brand, it limits their power to create an engaging customer experience that will actually drive earnings per share.” We ran a small scale “pulse” survey to have a look at the impact of employees who agreed/strongly agreed that they were

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Do your employees trust you?

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A look at the findings from the 2019 Edelman Trust Barometer and implications for brand, employer brand and business results. In the wake of the Banking Royal Commission Report, it’s worth taking a close look at the findings from the 2019 Edelman Trust Barometer Global Report launched in January. Employer-employee: the most trusted relationship Of all

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