What are companies doing with regards to 'My Company'

The Futures Company offer Management Training consisting of People management, Business and Financial Management, Negotiation skills, Leadership and Trusted Advisor training as well as Industry-specific training. There is learning on the job, mentored and coached by seniors, given opportunities to work across the teams to gain breadth as well as depth of experience.

In addition to their informal and staff-initiated events, The Futures company provides pro-bono services for a number of charitable and other NGO organisations. Examples include: The Teenage Cancer Trust where they delivered a keynote speech on evaluating the impact of the built environment at their annual conference. The Futures Company provide support in a variety of ways offering disadvantaged young people from City Gateway the opportunity for a three month Apprenticeship and offering annual office-based work experience opportunities for a local high school.

The Crown Estate local communities span the UK. They are developing a corporate community investment strategy but already operate in a number of estate based (Rural, Marine or Urban) communities. They work with agricultural tenants to help them diversify or join a prestigious food store's supply chain. They have a Marine Communities Fund through which about £400k p.a. is directed at specific projects. They are a founding member of the Westminster Small and Medium sized Business forum, have provided community halls for various groups and regularly permit the use of their Board Room as a local unit for community events/local groups.

The Crown Estate local communities span the UK. They are developing a corporate community investment strategy but already operate in a number of estate based (Rural, Marine or Urban) communities. They work with agricultural tenants to help them diversify or join a prestigious food store's supply chain. They have a Marine Communities Fund through which about £400k p.a. is directed at specific projects. They are a founding member of the Westminster Small and Medium sized Business forum, have provided community halls for various groups and regularly permit the use of their Board Room as a local unit for community events/local groups.

The Brand Union have a budget specifically for fun and social events examples of these events are: Christmas party - Summer party - Events - Visits. In addition to this they also have Team celebration events such as, Dinners and outings and Team reward/bonuses in the form of vouchers. The Brand Union describe their most recent or best experience of a team building event as their Mongrel Vigor away days.

The Brand Union believe in instant recognition, they give vouchers and cards for hardwork and going above and beyond. They also reward ideas or innovation at the Mongrel Vigor awards and WOW awards for specific achievements.

On average, employees at Teva UK Limited receive 60 hours per year formal training with an average spend being £850 on training per year. Examples of the sorts of training activities your employees might undertake are: Management & Leadership Development, - coaching, motivation, situational leadership, influencing & assertiveness, communications, presentation skills, negotiation skills, junior, middle & senior management development programmes; development centres Specialist/Operational training per function, eg regulatory training, operations training, warehourse, distribution training, packaging training, medical training, competition law training, sales effectiveness training, account management training, Attending conferences/seminars based on functional needs. eg HR attends the CIPD conferences.

On average, employees at Teva UK Limited receive 60 hours per year formal training with an average spend being £850 on training per year. Examples of the sorts of training activities your employees might undertake are: Management & Leadership Development, - coaching, motivation, situational leadership, influencing & assertiveness, communications, presentation skills, negotiation skills, junior, middle & senior management development programmes; development centres Specialist/Operational training per function, eg regulatory training, operations training, warehourse, distribution training, packaging training, medical training, competition law training, sales effectiveness training, account management training, Attending conferences/seminars based on functional needs. eg HR attends the CIPD conferences.

Teletext Holidays have a budget specifically for fun and social events. Some examples of these events are: Bowling, Quizzes and Nights Out. Team celebrations are held with regular monthly meets and specific milestones are always celebrated in various styles. Staff at Teletext Holidays recently celebrated Stag and Hen do's for two team members.

Teletext Holidays have a budget specifically for fun and social events. Some examples of these events are: Bowling, Quizzes and Nights Out. Team celebrations are held with regular monthly meets and specific milestones are always celebrated in various styles. Staff at Teletext Holidays recently celebrated Stag and Hen do's for two team members.

Quitting smoking, Eating healthily, Losing weight, Managing stress, Healthy heart/ cholesterol and Getting more exercise all form part of TD Waterhouse's calendar of well being events. They offer support for other mental health issues through their employee assistance programme, Validium. TD Waterhouse believe the investment they give to employee well being is above and beyond what other companies offer and clearly demonstrates their commitment. In 2010 they were awarded with the Investors in People Good Practice Award for Health & Well-being.

TD Waterhouse match funds raised by their employees for charity pound for pound with no upper limit. Their HR Director is chair of the Leeds and Bradford Cares Advisory Board. - In the past 12 months they have won the CARES North West Community Impact award and more than 48% of employees have so far taken part in one or more CSR activity this year. They also achieved a Gold Award for their Investors in People Application. They use CSR as a development tool and have a CSR module on their Management Development Programme. They have a mix of volunteers across all of the business areas at all levels, from the CEO and beyond and their CSR strategy adopts a community based approach to ensure that they are giving back consistently to the communities in which they operate.

Personal Growth is an important area and on average employees at Tameside College receive 45 hours per year formal training, with the organisation's average spend per employee on training per year being £140. Some examples of the sorts of training activities their employees might undertake are: Higher Educaiton Qualifications, Professional Qualifications, Teacher Training, Professional, Updating Skills, Updating Equality and Diversity Health and Safety.

Tameside College has a budget specifically for fun and social events such as their Fun Day and Christmas Party. The College leadership and management team meet 4 times a year to share ideas and the challenges that the organisation faces. In addition to this there are individual team training activities as part of the 5 Development days in place for staff training each year.

Talkington Bates have training programmes on the intranet for their managers and offer pay/ support for external management qualifications through NLP and external training facilitators. Individual training plans are set and 360 feedback is given at 6 monthly appraisals. All managers have a mentor as well as external coaching/ mentoring through Skills south east. Managers regularly attend seminars on employment law as well as field trips to other sites, suppliers and high street organisations.

Talkington Bates visit local colleges and schools for chefs where they hold live Q&A or surgery sessions. Their offices are open plan and senior management hot desk, they always operate an open door policy. They have a staff forum on the intranet with an intranet based ‘Ask the leader' system and the leader/ senior management interact with employees during regular site visits. The leader of the organisation in particular knows all staff by their first names, visit all sites on a regular basis and takes a personal interest in all staff.

System C plc ensure that employees feel they are rewarded for their efforts. They have a Competitive benefits package, Annual performance related bonus (based on company performance and indiividual performance), Competitive salaries (internal/external benchmarking to ensure fair and equitable salaries), Comprehensive Appraisal process in place as well as regaular one to one meetings with line managers to discuss progress against set objectives. The Company supports employees through professional qualifications, both financially and with given study leave. There is a dedicated training budget in place for each employee, to ensure continued personal development. Share options are awarded to employees for performance periodically and they have implemented a SAYE for 3 years sharescheme.

At System C plc they offer HR mentoring/support, dedicated training budget should external course be required and support from Executive Directors and Operations Board for all line managers. Paid time off and financial support is given to support management qualifications(i.e. FCIPD MCIPD MBA PhD CIMA Management Accountancy qualifications. Mentoring and Coaching schemes are in place as well as 'HR In Touch' - Coaching for employees and managers and 360 feedback internal and external schemes are in place. External coaching/ mentoring are available for executive and operation board directors and the HR team regularly attend external seminars on employement law which are run by local and london law firms and Work-Stream Manager Meetings Senior Management Meetings.