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Leadership Drives Engagement

Clear vision, trust and alignment from senior leaders shape how employees feel about the organisation - impacting company culture and wellbeing.
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Sharpe Pritchard LLP

Sharpe Pritchard has refined its appraisal process to focus on professional learning and development, ensuring that its employees feel challenged, and their skills are fully utilised. This approach also opens up opportunities for career advancement within the firm.
Responding to employee feedback, Sharpe Pritchard has enhanced its employment benefits, offering life assurance, income protection, and smart health schemes, alongside competitive salaries, ensuring employees feel they are treated fairly.
Sharpe Pritchard's leadership team is known for their commitment to the firm's values, achieving gender parity amongst partners and maintaining family-friendly policies. The firms actions provide a strong example for the rest of the organisation, fostering a sense of respect and admiration.
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Policy Expert

Policy Expert’s commitment to employee wellbeing is evident in its provision of health guides, mental health champions, and access to onsite wellbeing rooms. It also provides external health support through its employee assistance provider, ensuring colleagues are supported in their physical and mental health.
The leadership team at Policy Expert establishes a clear vision for the business, regularly communicating this through quarterly business updates and bi-annual leadership conferences. They ensure alignment and collaboration towards achieving shared goals, fostering a sense of unity and purpose.
Policy Expert’s partnership with the Blue Cross demonstrates its commitment to giving back to society. It hosts fundraising days and other activities, and even offers customers the option to donate any refund amounts to the charity. This initiative reinforces their societal contribution beyond profit motives.
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Northern Monk

Northern Monk prioritises employee wellbeing, evidenced by its participation in St John's Ambulance's Mental Health Responder Course. It also provides opportunities for employees to volunteer at charities, fostering positive mental health and community connection.
Northern Monk’s leadership champions the company’s core values in all aspects of decision-making, creating an authentic and value-driven culture. They engage with employees through monthly company-wide Huddles and newsletters, ensuring transparent communication at all levels.
Through its Faith in Futures Foundation, Northern Monk has raised over £100,000, supporting local businesses, charities, and projects. This initiative affirms the company's commitment to its community, demonstrating its belief in giving back to society without profit motives.
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La Fosse

La Fosse rewards employees’ achievements in meaningful ways beyond traditional rewards. The organisation’s annual heavily subsidised Ski Trip and quarterly incentive trips offer unique experiences that reward hard work and dedication.
At La Fosse, leadership is about transparency and alignment. Its leaders ensure everyone is informed and aligned with the company’s purpose through monthly Company Meetings and regular "Ask Me Anything" sessions.
La Fosse has a commitment to social impact, demonstrated by the establishment of its Charity Board and its commitment to donate 1% of its annual profits to selected charity partners. In addition, the organisation encourages employees to participate in volunteering activities, fostering a culture of giving back to society.
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Journey Further

Journey Further has an extensive wellbeing strategy, including a network of mental health first aiders, professional counselling services, and regular physical activities. The agency also supports employees in improving their homeworking setups, demonstrating a commitment to its overall health and performance.
Journey Further's leadership promotes transparency and values alignment. The annual Clarity at Speed Day and regular company-wide meetings allow employees to engage with senior management and voice any concerns or questions.
The agency demonstrates its commitment to giving back through initiatives like the International Women’s Day event, which raised funds for various charities. It also supports employees' fundraising efforts and works with local social enterprise Nourishing People for regular office snacks.
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Marketing & Media Agencies
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Farleigh Hospice

They have a Moving on Together Group, a group of staff from across the organisation who champion team interaction and communications. They group new leads on the annual staff event and have developed a communications framework based on staff feedback.

They work closely with Mencap by providing garden space for their service users to build and establish a vegetable garden. The produce they grow is used in the hospice kitchen and food waste from the kitchen and cafe is composted for use in the garden.

To improve employee engagement they introduced a monthly 'ideas hub' to generate discussion and feedback on what is going well and what is not going so well within the organisation. During these hubs, staff were encouraged to identify and introduce the topics for discussion.

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Energy Aspects

The global Townhalls and the practice of having different business areas present at each meeting not only fosters transparency but also encourages team spirit and a sense of belonging, by helping employees understand everyone's contribution to the company's success.
The company is committed to the personal growth of its employees, offering a range of training opportunities, from internal market sessions to writing skills workshops. It also provides a dedicated budget for individual development needs, encouraging a tailored approach to personal development.
The leadership at Energy Aspects prioritises clear communication of the company's values and strategic objectives. Senior leaders encourage all employees to uphold these values, fostering a culture of professional conduct and shared responsibility.
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Consultancy
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COOK

COOK trains ‘Wellbeing Warriors’ to champion initiatives around mind, body, and soul. Every year starts with Wellbeing January, providing a real focus to kick off the year with a bang. It hosts a full month of events including workshops, exercise classes, and talks from external speakers (CoppaFeel, osteopaths etc.), all via its Learning Wall.
COOK has a communication culture. It regularly shares updates and company strategies through its ‘All at COOK’ email. Additionally, using its embedded ‘Because Churchill’s Pig Week’, it has found that people talk freely to encourage change. The biggest actions it has taken off the back of this include improving the operations of its dev team.
Its Essential Ingredients of Leadership describe how to lead through its values. As well as role modelling every day, its senior leaders deliver leadership academy workshops that are all themed around the company values. They also lead the ‘Regular Values Recognition’, encouraging their teams to recognise their colleagues’ hard work and living company values.
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Food & Drink
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believe housing

As part of Stress Awareness Month, it encouraged all colleagues to take part in an event in partnership with the Lighthouse charity. Believe housing is committed to continuing to work with the charity to provide access and support for all employees across emotional, physical, and financial wellbeing.

Since the pandemic, the organisation has not stood still in its ambitions to deliver great things. It encourages its leaders to be accessible and visible, some examples include attendance at welcome events for new starters, leadership huddles, and time spent in front-line parts of the business.

The growth and development of its people are really important and it strives to make this a big part of its culture. It works on building a new culture and people strategy which includes how to attract the best people and how it builds skills and exciting careers for now and the future.

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adi Group

The Group actively promotes personal growth by providing individual development plans, reviewed biannually, and training opportunities, such as mental health first aid, sales, leadership, and LinkedIn, ensuring that skills are well-utilised and honed.
With CEO Alan Lusty's regular "Alan's Weekly Focus" updates and the Senior Management team's active participation in community initiatives, adi's leadership is appreciated for its transparency, communication, and embodiment of company values.
As members of the National Business Response Network (NBRN) under Business in the Community, adi Group donates PPE, appliances, and cash to local charities. The organisation also prepares and deliver Christmas lunches to local families, demonstrating its commitment to society.
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