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The ETS team is hugely humbled and proud to have won 2 x awards at last night's Business Culture 2024 Awards... 🏆 Employee Voice Initiative - co-submission with Maria Mallaband Care Group Ltd 🏆 Best Internal Communications Strategy - co-submission with Healthcare Homes A big well done to each of our two clients, for the brilliant work they have been doing across their organisations following the employee survey programmes we supported them with... Their efforts, strategies and new initiatives were pivotal to gaining this recognition! Lastly a thank you to the BCA judges, well done to all other winners and finalists, and shout-out to Cath Longfield and the rest of the Business Culture Awards & Business Culture Connected team for being such fantastic hosts and organising an inspiring event 👏 #bcas24 #awardwinning #carehomes #hrconsultancy

🌍 World Kindness Day 2024 got us thinking... For us (and our clients), we spend lots of time talking about and measuring employee and organisational KPIs, engagement metrics and organisational outcomes... And this is all really valuable to understand where things are working well, where there might be an issue, and to gauge progress being made. But stripping this all away, one of the most fundamentally important things about work is surely creating a happy and inclusive environment? One where colleagues are kind to one another, and where work is fun and feels less like a job... This is a subject our Senior Consultant Louise Obi-Drake is hugely passionate about, and talks about in this short video, recalling her Masters dissertation and delving into the characterises of workplaces where people can have fun, be themselves and thrive 🎞️ #happyworkplaces #funatwork #employeeexperience #worldkindnessday

☣️ Toxic workplace cultures = what people hate most about their job How 'healthy' is your workplace culture, are people happy at work and is your organisation doing the right things to purposefully foster the right culture? Really interesting take offered by former Twitter executive Bruce Daisley when delivering a keynote at last week's CIPD Annual Conference and Exhibition. Daisly reminded us that culture is defined by behaviours and - crucially -this is the case whether these are “encouraged, rewarded, or tolerated”. And he added; “The culture of any organisation is shaped by the worst behaviour the leader is willing to tolerate.” When contemplating low or stagnant engagement, soaring attrition and poor performance, the culture in your workplace is absolutely key... Are you clear on the behaviours you need to promote in your organisation to help people to thrive, and to rekindle their enjoyment of work and, in turn, help your business to prosper? 🤔 [Link below in comments to article published in People Management] #workplaceculture #makeworkbetter #employeeexperience

In conversation with Trevor Merriden ✨✨✨✨✨ I briefly explain what to focus on in order to enhance the experience and impact of our people, most fully 📊 Are you measuring more than one 'E'??

And… that’s a wrap! Another busy fortnight for our team, out and about with clients. Here’s a selection of the highlights... 🏠 Graham and Sam have been developing Module 1 content of a new leadership development programme for a North West-based housing association (encompassing ice-breakers and PDP intro). 💬 Graham led session 2/5 in 121 coaching series with senior leader at a community healthcare client. 👩💻 Louise has been running more Hogan assessments and debriefs as part of a ‘High Potential programme’ for a national housebuilder client. 🏎️ Paul Tizzard delivering Module 2 (Insights Discovery) to latest Graduate cohort at this motorsports team. 🏎️ Sarah ran 2 days of 360-degree feedback coaching at the same motorsports team. 🏦 Sarah is supporting a high street banking client with creation of bespoke video series to support rollout of 360-degree feedback. 💹 Sam T and Sarah hosted a project kick off for the 2024 engagement survey with a London-based financial services client. 🏠 Freya has been creating regional reporting data packs post survey for a national housebuilder client. 🤗 Steven has been working lots with a major charity client in preparation for their engagement survey results previews in the next few weeks. 🍽️ Nicky and Freya enjoyed sitting down for a working lunch with another of our national housebuilder clients in London. #hrconsultancy #hrconsulting #behindthescenes #dayinthelife Image: Pexels / Vlada Karpovich

New video 🎬 Everyone knows people are an organisation’s biggest asset... So, prioritising giving them the very best experience – and supporting them to thrive at work is a no-brainer, right? But how do you do that? Our Client Partner Nicky Paris has been answering this very question while in conversation with Trevor Merriden for our 'Expert series', discussing: > The indisputable truth that higher engagement = stronger performance > Why engagement alone isn’t enough > The 2 x other lenses to focus on (besides engagement), in enablement and empowerment #employeeexperience #employeeengagement #employeelistening

1️⃣ week to go to the 2024 Business Culture Awards... Ooh, we can't wait for this! The team here is delighted to have been shortlisted as a finalist in not one, not two, but THREE categories, alongside our brilliant clients at Healthcare Homes , Maria Mallaband Care Group Ltd and Provide Community. As always, there's a really strong field of finalists, and whatever the outcomes on the night, we are all proud to be in such company, and are looking forward to celebrating the achievements of all the excellent work being done by organisations and consultancies to improve the world of work! 👏🎉 #awardnominations #hrconsultancy #employeevoice #internalcomms #healthcare Business Culture Awards & Business Culture Connected

Our Implementation Consultancy team are often unsung heroes in the many large-scale employee engagement survey and 360 feedback programmes we manage for clients... And, despite autumn being peak season for survey launches, they were recently able to carve out a little time to get together in Paddington to > 🎉 Review 2024 YTD, reflecting on successes & areas to work on 📆 Discuss upcoming client delivery deadlines, internal projects and process changes 🐻 Enjoy dinner & drinks in The Bear! Samuel Carter / Rosalind Wright / Anna Costantini / Trevor Ubdegrove / Josh Carter / Vera Silva #projectmanagement #employeesurveys #360feedback #remoteteams

(Almost) the end of another week, and the last fortnight has been a busy one for our Consultancy team... Here's a wrap-up with highlights of what they've all been doing >> 🏠 Phase 2 launch of a High Potential programme for a national housebuilder, featuring Hogan assessments and debriefs - led by Louise Obi-Drake and supported by our associate Jules Randall, delivering career visioning sessions. 🏠 Louise worked with the same housebuilder client on the launch of a Highly Valued Experts Mentoring Programme. 🔧 Graham Mitchell led delivery of 121 coaching sessions with a global engineering client, following the recent training module in September. 📝 Steven Arbuckle has been kept busy with surveys, following the launch of the 2024 survey with a large, household name charity, and carrying out survey design for an education sector client. 🏘️ Lots of ETSers involved with the online launch of a big Leadership programme with a North West-based housing association client, with Sarah Collins, Freya Lamont, Sam Tewari, Vicky Harris joined by Graham, Steven and Louise. 👂 We facilitated a female only listening group session, for a financial services firm, led by Graham and Freya. 🏭 Louise delivered 2-day leadership development workshops for global diversified manufacturing client 👷♀️ Nicky Paris kicked off a new Joiners and Leavers survey for a different housebuilder client, expanding on the employee listening programme they already run with us. 🏎️ Sarah was on-site for 2 days of 360s and coaching at this motorsports client. 🏎️ Paul Tizzard worked with the same motorsports client to launch the next round of their Graduate programme, which will run through to January. 👷 Andrew Macdonald, Nicky and Sarah joined a first in-person meeting and dinner (see pic) with the Global HR team of an engineering company we have partnered with since 2020. 💙 Freya and Nicky enjoyed a working lunch with our wonderful clients at a care homes organisation. 🏦 Nicky has been exploring running an all-company Insights session for a challenger bank client in the New Year. 🍔 And finally… an all-team meeting and lunch back in Guildford to take stock, and prep for a busy November ahead! #behindthescenes #hrconsultancy #trainingprovider #landd #employeesurveys

Great short video from my colleague Andrew Macdonald at ETS plc on the real, strategic value of employee diagnostic exercises like engagement surveys (the doctor > prescription analogy particularly rings true) 👇👇