Tavistock Institute of Human Relations Annual Report, 1st October 2016 - 30th September 2017.

ENGAGEMENT AND PARTICIPATION
IMPACT THROUGH
DIGITAL ENGAGEMENT:
The Institute website promotes all streams of our work, publishing
regular news articles (on average seven new articles each month),
project case studies, presentations and thought pieces. In 2016 – 2017,
we had over 105,000 visitors to the website, who actively engaged
with content 140,000 times. Quarterly newsletters and targeted e-mail
campaigns were sent 37 times during the year to a combined database
of 6,900 subscribers. In July 2017, we launched a dedicated website to
promote and facilitate online bookings for the TIHR festival celebrating
the Institute’s 70th anniversary.
Our social media presence continues to grow: we have 14,533 followers
and connections across our three main social media profiles (4,122
Twitter followers, 4,984 Facebook likes, and 5,427 LinkedIn followers).
Our continued year - on -year growth demonstrates the increasing
impact we are having online. Our staff, from apprentices to seniors,
engage together in learning, integrating social media and digital
engagement activities into their practice. We also continue to use social
media analysis in our research projects and as a topic of research.
Twitter data
108% engagement increase across the year, with a total of 491,500
impressions, 670 retweets and 842 likes.
IN MEMORY OF
JOHN MULRYAN
The untimely death of John Mulryan, our beloved Head of Finance
was the saddest moment in the year. John has been with the
Tavistock Institute for almost a decade, supporting the CEO and
the rest of the team in driving the Tavistock Institute, never losing
sight of our primary task and core purpose.
With his tolerance, gentle manner, light touch and thorough
understanding of the finances, John was a stalwart of the
Tavistock Institute and a generous enabler of the Institute’s
continuous development and growth.
We like a party at the Tavistock Institute, any cause for celebration and we embrace it – from
our food for thought series, through to our annual celebration of the harvesting season, to
celebrating our staff’s achievements in writing and publishing, to Christmas dinners and
Institute’s trips, retirement parties, you name it – John, unless travelling elsewhere in the world –
would be there, always up for a good laugh, football banter and a pint.
John has left a big hole in the heart of the Tavistock Institute and it is not often that finance
people are so dearly appreciated, but John was as he was a sincere and fine gentleman.
However, John has left with us his spirit of ‘can do’ and in his memory we will continue to work
for the betterment of individuals at work, for our communities and society, using our capacity
to open up spaces for difficult conversations, in order to generate insight and promote learning.
John himself never tired of learning and whenever had the opportunity to do so immersed
himself in learning with and from his colleagues, including attending a Group Relations
conference and as many lunch time talks as he could.
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