PULSE in numbers

Six months after the return of the 2009 PULSE Volunteers, we now have results from quantitative surveys sent to each of our Volunteers, their GSK Home teams and our PULSE Partners. The results are summarised by the three categories of respondents:

PULSE Volunteers:

97% of PULSE Volunteers feel that their PULSE Assignments have either exceeded or met their expectations after six months past completion of their Assignment.
PULSE gave GSK employees the opportunity to use and/or develop all six of the key GSK Behaviors, particularly building relationships and flexible thinking.
Back at GSK, nearly 80% of the Volunteers feel energized by their work. Volunteers now feel more empowered and energized; have greater clarity and sense of purpose; look for simple solutions; and feel more connected to the GSK vision.

Would you consider taking part in the PULSE programme yourself or recommending it to another colleague?

GSK Home Teams:

GSK Home Teams believe that PULSE has enabled Volunteers to share a different external perspective and bring reinvigorated energy and morale back to their GSK jobs and home teams.

GSK Home Team members say that PULSE provides them the opportunity to enhance their own work experience and up-skill their behaviours while their colleague is out on a PULSE Assignment.

87% of the GSK Home Team members have highlighted their willingness to participate in the PULSE Partnership themselves or to recommend it to another colleague. (Refer to figure above)

If your PULSE volunteer were to return to your organization today, how confident are you that they would feel their contribution was still having the desired impact?

PULSE Partners:

Six months after a PULSE Assignment has ended and the Volunteer has left, 85% of Partner managers believe that the Volunteer’s impact is sustainable – i.e. if the Volunteer were to visit the organisation today, s/he would feel that their contribution was still having the desired impact. (Refer to figure on right)

Six months after the completion of their PULSE assignment, the majority of PULSE Partner organizations continue to receive support from their PULSE Volunteers.

PULSE Partner Testimonials:

“GSK PULSE Volunteers are currently my favourite people … The ones with whom I worked quickly not only showed me how they had been trained to think from a logical and business-driven perspective, but proceeded to demonstrate their efficient and effective analytical and problem-solving skills on numerous occasions. Through my interactions with them … it would not be an exaggeration to say that they have revolutionized my thinking on the need for leadership and business management skills in the aid world...They have generated healthy change in the organizations that I work with. In fact, I would cheerfully steal them all to come and work here with me, if such a thing was possible.” – Direct Relief International

“With PULSE on board, we delivered in three months what would have taken us three years.” – Project HOPE UK

“Having GSK PULSE Volunteers has been an inspiring infusion of talent, strategy, and energy for CHAI this year. The GSK PULSE Volunteers have truly added much value to our life-saving work and can know in leaving their posts that their work has assisted governments in developing countries with their health systems in ways that will have lasting impact.” – Clinton Health Foundation

For more information on PULSE Impact, please write to us at global.pulse@gsk.com