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On average employees receive 32 hours per year formal training with an average spend per employee on training per year of £665. Examples of the sorts of training activities their employees might undertake are: SMSTS, First Aid at Work, Fire Warden, Asbestos awareness, Working at Height, IOSH In Design Managment & Leadership Customer Service, IT skills NVQ's, Business Administration Funding for Degree courses, Public speaking, Presentation skills, Stress Management, Time/ Programme management and Personal Development Reviews.

Styles&Wood match funds raised by their employees for charity as many times as they can or they will provide funds for raffles and activities to enable the events to take place. They will generally match up to £250 per event. As a Project Management company delivering projects for their clients on a national basis, they recruit colleagues based in locations accross the UK. They therefore deliver an agenda which supports nationally recognised charities such as Barnardos along with projects based around their office locations. Their sites often engage in activities local to the site area where they are based, this can range from mini challenges, recruiting local labour, engagement with client community acitivities and supporting local schools.

Stephenson Harwood professional fee earning employees receive technical and legal training coupled with a comprehensive range of key business skills such as people management, financial management, business development and leadership. Similar topics are run for their support staff alongside their personal development plans. In addition to specific role-related training. All staff receive a full induction and ongoing IT training. Stephenson Harwood also offer intermediate language training and compulsory training to comply with the Solicitors' Regulatory Authority and Solicitors' Professional Skills Course. Additionally, they offer support for the external technical, legal or professional courses, as appropriate, such as an LLM, CTA, or ACA.

Stephenson Harwood's Chief Executive is not only down-to-earth and personable but a pragmatic, effective and well respected leader. Her style is informal and relaxed and she makes every effort to attend Firm social events and other opportunities to mix with employees, such as the associate management lunches. She has an exceptional understanding of the Firm's business, people and culture and is well placed to lead the business forward over the coming years. She continues to head up Stephenson Harwood's corporate practice and therefore keeps in touch with issues on the ground as well as the bigger picture. She also remains actively involved in people aspects such as recruitment and development.

Some examples of the sorts of training activities Steljes employees might undertake are product training event weekends, bespoke training courses written for Managers and employees, Health and Safety Training, Professional Qualifications, Role specific courses, Internal Product Training and Product Certification Training. There are fully funded professional courses, time off work for study leave and exams and fully paid for course materials.

Steljes have a sales Employee of the month award which comprises of a plaque on the wall and a prize awarded by the Sales and Business Development Director. Milestone recognition is awarded with Fortnum and Mason Hampers at the Company Christmas Party by the Chairman for those staff who have reached 5, 10, 15 and 20 years service. There is instant recognition in the form of thank you cards, instant rewards, peer recognition etc. Steljes have Boy and Girl Done Good Awards from the Group Chief Executive of a meal for two at a restaurant of their choice awarded at monthly company meetings for staff nominated by others in the business and customers for things they have done well.

Managers toolkits are available on the intranet at STA Travel as well as formal external management courses. Internal management development training is offered as formal leadership training opportunities and coaching/ mentoring is provided by external leadership specialists. STA Travel have external meetings within peer groups and HR Breakfast meetings provided by Employment Lawyers etc are supported. They support and enhance the development of people managers within their organisation by working alongside the employees providing easy access to decision making and coaching.

On average, employees receive 8 hours per year formal training, with an average spend per employee of £500 on training per year. Examples of the sorts of training activities STA Travel employees might undertakeare: Head Office Brand and Culture training sessions, Presentation skills courses (2 day), Recruitment Training sessions, 3-week induction courses, Assistant Manager course, Coaching courses, STAy workshops, Eurostar courses, Travel Connect courses, 1 day finance team training, new Branch Manager support days, weeks training in Sweden, Sales Training Courses, webinar sales training sessions for Sweden and The design of 60 coaching cards to support the face to face with the customer programme…

SRK conducts annual appraisals of all staff, supported by 6-monthly mid-term reviews and regular feedback from managers. In additon, SRK rewards all staff trough an annual discretionary bonus scheme.

SRK conducts annual appraisals of all staff, supported by 6-monthly mid-term reviews and regular feedback from managers. In additon, SRK rewards all staff trough an annual discretionary bonus scheme.

Full range of tailored HR policies and procedures to enable Managers to get the best of their people including recruitment questionnaires, leadership training etc. Leadership development is given through action learning with secondment to other groups e.g. HR Building Blocks Group, F&B Development group, Health & Safety committee etc. Somerston strive to get Deputy Managers to carry out Maternity Leave cover so that they can get their feet well and truly wet over a six to nine month secondment and they get a real opportunity to handle the rough and tumble of managing people and teams with high expectations of their leaders.

All Hotels employees except GMs have their hours monitored , Somerston don't encourage opt out from Working Time Directive though a few do in order to meet their personal economic and social needs. They encourage employees to take their annual leave in small chunks on a regular basis rather than saving up for a long holiday though they are often receptive to such requests for long breaks. Somerston do assess the potential impact on the employee not taking regular breaks.

Skills Training encourage employees to form peer to peer groups particularly when they have been training together. These groups share knowledge and experience with each other. When employees have attended training they do a presentation for their peers that have not attended to share their learning. For example their trainers from the delivery centres pooled their expertise and designed and rolled out an innovative one day intensive support programme which was a success. Skills Training operate a buddy system ensuring that new staff are matched with an experienced colleague to support with settling in time and development of job role.

Skills Training make a positive difference to the lives of their customers through their role in obtaining meaningful work, striving to ensure their customers stay in work for the long term. Their financial and non-financial incentives are built on these principles. Skills Training employees are also rewarded and recognised through team building events which may range from bowling, a theatre visit, paint-balling or a team meal. They have an annual event which usually takes place at a prestigious location in London in which their employees are rewarded with a sit down meal, entertainment and an Awards Ceremony led by the Chief Executive and Chairman.

Simpson Millar LLP Solicitors have a budget specifically for fun and social events. Examples of these events are: Christmas Party's, pre-wedding celebrations, regular Friday evening social events for staff providing nibbles and drinks, Corporate Race day. Each department holds celebrations at year end together with other milestones. In particular, one of their most recently added teams celebrated the end of their first 6 months with Simpson Millar by way of a celebratory meal. Certain departments with Simpson Millar operate on a team target rather than an individual target and are therefore rewarded by way of a bonus upon reaching target. A Training Weekend is held annually in Birmingham where all Partners & Fee Earners attend Austin Court for training, seminars and presentations as well as an evening social function.

Simpson Millar LLP Solicitors have a budget specifically for fun and social events. Examples of these events are: Christmas Party's, pre-wedding celebrations, regular Friday evening social events for staff providing nibbles and drinks, Corporate Race day. Each department holds celebrations at year end together with other milestones. In particular, one of their most recently added teams celebrated the end of their first 6 months with Simpson Millar by way of a celebratory meal. Certain departments with Simpson Millar operate on a team target rather than an individual target and are therefore rewarded by way of a bonus upon reaching target. A Training Weekend is held annually in Birmingham where all Partners & Fee Earners attend Austin Court for training, seminars and presentations as well as an evening social function.

Every new Stylist hired attends their Advanced Academy for 7 days induction training to RUSH hair techniques. They run a full programme of leading edge hairdressing training at their purpose built Advanced Academy, delivered by their Award Winning Artistic Team. They offer an Award winning NVQ Apprenticeship programme for their 16-18 year old Apprentices. They also run Monthly Masterclasses for Managers covering all the functional training in HR, Marketing and Finance. Monthly Management 1-1 Coaching sessions with our Chairman

Their HR Director runs masterclasses in People Management, Employment Law, Employee Satisfaction. They have ran Presentation skills and Train the Trainer sessions for managers who deliver Team Talks.

RPM ensures that success, as a result of an indivdual or team, is not only made public to the whole office, but also celebrated. For example, in their weekly news letter they have a special 'thank you's' section,which specifically encourages and therefore recognises hard work or particular individual achievements. Also, everytime there is a new client win, a member of that team will ring the 'new business bell' that sits on the Account Team wall, which lets everyone know of this achievement and helps to bring the office together. Whenever an employee is promoted they are given bottle of champagne by the MD.

RPM ensures that success, as a result of an indivdual or team, is not only made public to the whole office, but also celebrated. For example, in their weekly news letter they have a special 'thank you's' section,which specifically encourages and therefore recognises hard work or particular individual achievements. Also, everytime there is a new client win, a member of that team will ring the 'new business bell' that sits on the Account Team wall, which lets everyone know of this achievement and helps to bring the office together. Whenever an employee is promoted they are given bottle of champagne by the MD.