Colleagues take part in fundraising activities in support of a number of charities globally with a common theme of meeting basic needs. Colleagues in our offices vote on local charities to support. In the UK, the London office supports The Felix Project, which fights hunger and food waste, and the Manchester office supports Wood Street Mission, which works with low-income families across Manchester and Salford. The New York office supports Crossroads Community Services, which focuses on hunger and homelessness. The Boston and San Francisco offices support, respectively, The Greater Boston Food Bank and the SF Marin Food Bank.
There are three key elements to our work in CSR.
- Our markets – we seek to protect client interests and operate our business with integrity and resilience.
- Our people – we seek to encourage effective leadership, well-being, diversity and inclusion for our staff.
- Our world – we seek to act responsibly to protect the wider world and, locally, to support the communities in which we exist.
Our people
We aim to develop successful leaders and managers who drive high productivity and engagement within their teams while challenging ourselves and our recruitment partners to ensure we have the right initiatives in place to encourage the promotion and development of a diverse workforce.
Insight’s employees are critical stakeholders in the business. New joiners receive induction training and the opportunity to meet the CEO and the Head of Human Resources. This typically takes place a few weeks after joining Insight which gives new joiners the opportunity to review how Insight does things and make suggestions of how things could be improved, which is then taken on board by HR representatives.
Insight is a strong believer in employee development delivering a range of training programs designed to encourage employee and manager development at all levels. Our challenging environment provides the right conditions for employees to hone their skills and expertise and develop within the business.
We believe that well integrated, diverse teams deliver better outcomes. Our mission is to ensure that Insight continues to cultivate our culture of inclusion where people with different perspectives and backgrounds can thrive and collaborate.
In order to remain a competitive and high performing firm, Insight aims to move towards an employee profile that reflects the environments in which we operate while maintaining our culture of inclusion that maximises the talent of all our colleagues.
Our Inclusion Mission Statement,
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Looking after the interests of all our people is at the heart of our firm's culture and values. At our core, we want everyone who works here to feel they have the support they need while delivering the best outcomes for our clients.
We actively encourage an environment where colleagues know they can share their views and challenge the views of others. Helping our colleagues to feel seen, heard and represented fosters a culture of high performance.
We are committed to fairness and to rewarding merit. Our goal has always been to cultivate a culture in which people with different backgrounds and perspectives can thrive and collaborate.
No gender, race or group has a monopoly on the talent we need to succeed. The success of our business rests on its ability to attract, retain and motivate the best people. When recruiting we cast the net wide to attract the best people for our business.
There are a clear set of values embedded within Insight’s culture:
- Client Focus: Insight’s clients always come first and we combine this perspective with an environment for our employees that promotes a culture of innovation, collaboration, diversity and inclusion.
- Accountability: We foster a strong culture of ownership, providing our staff autonomy and trust from the start, allowing them to make their own decisions that impact our business.
- Teamwork: We create a culture of camaraderie and trust in our business. We focus on getting the right people with the right expertise and combining them in a diverse team to work together to deliver results.
- Continuous Improvement: We maintain a questioning attitude and are not afraid to speak up and challenge conventional thinking or the status quo.
- Collaboration: We believe that no group has a monopoly on the skills we need to succeed and our team-oriented approach is the lynchpin of our culture. We do things differently because we think differently and we work collaboratively with each other and with our clients.
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Our world
