Monitor the emotional and social culture of their organisations;
Boost creativity, flexibility, resourcefulness and overall sustainability by developing strategies designed to improve the organisation's emotional and social culture;
Measure the links between how people relate to each other and the way their organisation performs;
Compare their organisation's emotional and social culture against benchmarks set by other organisations in their sector, and more generally;
Ensure employees are motivated, capable of giving their best, and able to work with each other rather then in unproductive opposition;
Assess the likely patterns of people's responses to significant changes;
Take strategic action to deal with problems long before they seriously threaten an organisation's survival;
Find ways of bringing a diverse range of talents into the organisation while maintaining team cohesion.
The Nation's ESI