The company hold firm wide updates for employees between twice a year to communicate progress towards delivery of our objectives. They also have a spot bonus/reward programme which recognises employees who have demonstrated exemplary behaviour aligned to our values. Corporate induction is held every quarter.

The company have spot bonuses for a job well done. . Deal Flow, cross selling reward programme, enables employees to benefit personally from any work they refer outside their own team. Personal bonus incentive plans.

The SMT are "hands on" at events, community initiatives, tenant forum meetings and team briefs. Committed to the ethos of social housing, the SMT demonstrate this with an ambitious new homes programme, the creation of a community development function and customer feedback influencing decisions made at strategic level.

Staff have been involved in: Belfast Marathon - 23 staff members took part to raise money for charities including The Welcome Organisation and one of residential homes (De La Cour House) Residents Funds - £1,632 was raised for the Welcome Organisation & £264 was raised for the Residents Fund. Over 60 staff have taken part in the Treasure House Project, a project with the Northern Ireland Museums. This project is about reducing social isolation amongst older people & promoting social inclusion, learning & development of new skills & improving social networks. The Women's Tech Project - In partnership with Women's Tech, the Association delivered a programme called “Tea and Drills” which is a taster programme for those interested in developing skills for employment within the construction industry. This has now developed into an £850,000 funded Programme called SPEC (Supporting People: Empowering Communities), funded by the European Social Fund and Department for Employment & Learning.

They have created their own City Gate Sales Academy. The Academy of Excellence will help ensure they promote a consistent message and best practice across the entire group while creating and maintaining the best possible standards in customer service. In doing this, they will unlock their people's potential, giving them the best tools to succeed and positively influence and shape their careers. With an emphasis on accuracy and quality, the aim of their academy is to deliver a “world class” customer experience, training their teams in such a way that they can also display their own individual personalities. Every sales person in the company has been enrolled into their academy. They have been issued with their own academy learning folder which contains all of the relevant information and the modules they are required to complete to progress in their careers with Citygate. All new starters are issue with the Academy folder on their first day and their file will grow with them as they attend and complete each of the modules / stages contained within the academy. The modules are designed to allow career progress from sales executive to sales management. The learning journey is a mixture of on e-learning, on job coaching, classroom style training and off site training at the national learning centre.

They have created their own City Gate Sales Academy. The Academy of Excellence will help ensure they promote a consistent message and best practice across the entire group while creating and maintaining the best possible standards in customer service. In doing this, they will unlock their people's potential, giving them the best tools to succeed and positively influence and shape their careers. With an emphasis on accuracy and quality, the aim of their academy is to deliver a “world class” customer experience, training their teams in such a way that they can also display their own individual personalities. Every sales person in the company has been enrolled into their academy. They have been issued with their own academy learning folder which contains all of the relevant information and the modules they are required to complete to progress in their careers with Citygate. All new starters are issue with the Academy folder on their first day and their file will grow with them as they attend and complete each of the modules / stages contained within the academy. The modules are designed to allow career progress from sales executive to sales management. The learning journey is a mixture of on e-learning, on job coaching, classroom style training and off site training at the national learning centre.

CHS continue to roll out 'Career Pathway Frameworks' within the organisation, these are job role specific and focus as much as on the behaviours and values of the organisation, as well as empowering the individual to demonstrate areas of high performance to increase reward potential. One of the unique elements of their competency frameworks is the focus on career progression and this has been successful in developing their team leader/supervisor talent pipeline. One of their strategic priorities is to develop their performance management processes to build upon the linkage of corporate performance to individual reward. This includes a review of how competency frameworks can be further rolled out across the organisation.

CHS' face to face training averages at 4 sessions per annum, per employee. With industry standards for Care Certificate being introduced in April this year, CHS have taken the opportunity to look at how they can provide the most practical and interactive induction process for experienced and new carers, in line with the standards within the Care Certificate. They have trained managers and Deputy Managers in Assessment methodology and introduced a 12 week programme that can be tailored to individuals experience and level of knowledge. They have chosen to go further than the minimum requirement to ensure that their staff are equipped with the skills and behaviours to deliver person centred care, in line with the company's Values. They have a policy commitment to develop the skills of their staff through study and a number of people have taken the option to study occupational qualifications. Diplomas/NVQs are actively encouraged and participation in Diplomas, in particular, in Care and Childcare. In the previous 12 months, 25 employees have completed their qualification and a further 52 are progressing, some of which are through apprenticeships.

The company's learning motto is Be the Best I can. The Cheval Promise is: 30 minutes of learning - every colleague - every week.

The company's learning motto is Be the Best I can. The Cheval Promise is: 30 minutes of learning - every colleague - every week.

Cestria are currently working towards the Better Health at Work Bronze level Award and staff have completed a health assessment questionnaire to indicate the areas that the company should focus on. This has highlighted that diet, alcohol use and fitness are the three main areas to concentrate on, and a programme of activities is being arranged to improve wellbeing in these areas, along with campaigns such as Stoptober, Dry January and Mental Health month.

As part of their on-going commitment to developing their staff, and ensuring they have the right people to take the business forward, Cestria have created the Stepping into Management Programme for staff who have high performance in their current role along with the ambition and commitment to work towards their first managerial role. The objectives are: To improve internal succession by developing a pool of high potential individuals, to provide a structured, challenging and rewarding development opportunity that will help to develop some of the core skills, knowledge and experience required to be an effective manager. To further enrich the current performance of high performing members of staff a number of their staff are involved in the HDN Mentoring Programme. The Mentoring Programme offers the opportunity for staff members to access an external Mentor for one-to-one professional development support and to attend Mentoring Workshops focused on a variety of career development topics. . As well as the HDN mentoring programme they have also launched an Internal Mentoring Program for staff who would like to mentor or be mentored by existing Cestria staff members. All staff have been given the opportunity to work alongside and gain experience of the role of another individual, and gain an insight into a particular work area through job shadowing. Cestria are keen to support staff to develop skills and/or gain qualifications which contribute to the achievement of agreed personal and career goals. Recently, with the help of funding, 10 people gained a nationally recognised qualification.

The PayBack Foundation Ceridian UK established their own registered charity, The PayBack Foundation, in 1997. Colleagues are passionate about the Charity, as they know that 100% of all donations go directly to PayBack grant recipients. They feel a connection with the charity as the company share the details of where all of the donations go to. The company help local disabled and disadvantaged children! Colleagues are always thinking of bigger, better and more unusual ways of raising funds. In 2015 the company participated in 3 Tough Mudder events, 2 10k runs, a half marathon, Adare to Survive, a 12 hour Boogie4PayBack as well as the more usual cake bakes, small change donations and more. MacMillan Coffee Morning as well as supporting PayBack, Ceridian also supports a number of nationally recognised charitable events. Each year the offices bake cakes for MacMillan coffee morning, with all donations going to this worthy cause.

Communication Day On the first Wednesday of each month the company hold “communications day”, led on each site by Senior Managers, these sessions are held to ensure all colleagues are fully aware of the Company's performance, are up to date with the latest projects and most importantly have the opportunity to ask any questions they may have and give timely feedback. Technology Roadshow, the technology division is diverse, both in terms of roles and geography. As such they hold bi-annual technology roadshows, giving members of the team an opportunity to hear about what all the areas have been working on, what the focus for the future is, demo new products, hear from subject matter experts, but also have the opportunity to network with their peers face to face. Fun@Work and PayBack The company is enthusiastic about colleagues enjoying their time at work – they do lots of things to encourage teamwork and teamplay, including sport days, Halloween fancy dress and even a 50th birthday party.

Small, simple changes to lifestyle in the workplace and at home represent a huge opportunity to reduce sickness absence and related costs, improve performance, increase engagement and attract top talent therefore The company endeavour to support their employee's health and wellbeing in a number of ways - encompassing physical, emotional and financial wellbeing: Working Parent Support includes savings on childcare through salary sacrifice as well as Advantages and Parent Hub through Eden Red which is a combination of household expenditure savings and an online resource of information and advice on all things parenting. "MyWorkOffers" helps staff fend off the stress of financial pressures through thousands of savings on household expenditure. Ride to Work Scheme which has health, environmental and financial benefits for all employees who wish to enter the scheme. Eye care Vouchers offer eye health support as well as a tool for managing expenses efficiently. Quite Smoking, the company are also looking at initiatives to help staff quite smoking. ‘Lunchtime learning' sessions encourage employees to participate in their office weekly session which is geared around learning a new skills, a language, or fitness etc. One of the company's goals for 2016 is to invest in wellbeing programme for staff whereby they can teach them how to lead a healthier lifestyle and promote wellbeing within their lives personally and at work.

The company doesn't have any community initiatives in place however via their chosen charity CRASH they provide support to their projects through provision of pro bono professional expertise and fundraising. Corporate Social Responsibility is extremely important to the business and their employees and they have found that one of the greatest benefits of promoting social responsibility in the workplace is the positive environment it has created for their employees. This has led to enthusiastic employees who are engaged in their jobs and has built a sense of community and teamwork which brings everyone together. As a result the company are always seeking innovative and effective ways for their employees to give back to the local and wider community.

Details on intranet of various events - bacon butties last week, Movember etc. All details of various events are on the staff intranet, recently the company took part in Movember, had charity donations for bacon baps to raise money for a local lady for cancer treatment in America,they also took part in the NSPCC HACK in the Mourne mountains and sponsored a local primary schools 10k fun run to name a few.

The company Values Do it Right, Do it Safe, Do it Now. This underpins every decision that is taken in the organisation. This has assisted greatly in the recruitment of new people as it allows the company to qualify applicants based on the cultural fit within the organisation. It also provides a mechanism for the management of existing CDE people and defining what they expect. Commitment to Innovation & the Environment the values say we will continually developing world beating products through innovation and will protect the environment. CDE Global was the first company in Northern Ireland to be accepted onto the Eco-Innovation programme from the EU. This programme supports the development of environmental technologies that have been successful in one EU member state but as yet have not achieved widespread adoption across the EU. Diverse company culture: The company values state they should never be satisfied with the status quo. As recently as 3 years ago English was the first language of everyone in the company. There are now 11 different languages spoken in the office on a daily basis. The company's Health & Safety Culture values state that they keep themselves and others safe. Following a recent HSE inspection the report commented on how Health & Safety was part of the culture in our organisation. Following the HSE inspection the company has joined a group of only 5 companies in Northern Ireland who have achieved the highest Health & Safety standards.