Leadership Drives Engagement

The practice offers a comprehensive benefits package grouped into four categories: Financial Benefits, Wellbeing, Flexibility, and Staff Development. This includes annual salary reviews, discretionary performance bonuses, and a staff recognition scheme, ensuring that all employee owners are competitively and directly rewarded.

The transition to an Employee Ownership Trust reflects the company's commitment to recognising the vital role of its team and its long-term thinking. This structure is intended to provide stability and enhanced opportunities to share in the future success of the business.

Management and leadership skills are provided through Warranty First’s inhouse HR consultant. Courses include subjects such as the right to manage, the legal context, emotional intelligence, absence management, wellbeing, and Equality, Diversity and Inclusion.

KERB supports physical and mental health through Private Medical Insurance, a medical cash plan, and ClassPass. The Hospitality Action EAP provides confidential support, while a Mental Health committee organises initiatives, and there are 27 trained mental health first aiders.

The organisation operates using its ‘WIIGs’ (Wunderkind Identity and Impact Groups). WIIGs give back to the employees, the community, and the business. They are a resource to help employees feel connected, valued, respected, included, and aware. Each WIIG has its own budget to achieve its purpose, support its community and to grow awareness and inclusion.

The People Team also host their own 'extra' all-hands meetings to keep employees fully informed about 'all things people' including how their feedback is being used and what's new.

Each employee at Osbornes Law is assigned a supervisor, fostering a supportive environment. Regular catch-ups, annual appraisals, and development meetings further enhance this trust and care.

The society provides wellbeing support via a free employee assistance programme, mental health first aiders, paid compassionate leave, and counselling support. It also offers flexible working arrangements to maintain work-life balance.

Evenlode prioritises employee wellbeing through flexible working hours, a two-day a week office policy, and wellbeing activities such as exercise classes and courses.

The group prioritises employee wellbeing, offering mental health awareness training and wellbeing workshops. These initiatives focus on resilience, nutrition, sleep, posture, and exercise, ensuring a healthy work environment.

The Edmund Trust holds managers workshops on career development and has developed a future leaders programme. Management development is also delivered through inhouse training courses i.e. Introduction to Management, Performance review and appraisal, recruitment and selection, and more. Managers further have the opportunity to study a level 5 in social care.