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Every team are given a subsidy for each employee at Christmas. Conferences are held to bring employees together and local arrangements are made for other social events. Although they do not have a specific budget for fun and social events they do hold Christmas events and summer BBQ's for their employees across the country.

Every team are given a subsidy for each employee at Christmas. Conferences are held to bring employees together and local arrangements are made for other social events. Although they do not have a specific budget for fun and social events they do hold Christmas events and summer BBQ's for their employees across the country.

All of their offices are open plan and all employees operate an open door policy to encourage open and honest communication. The Company director knows all employees first names and ensures they are all greeted and made to feel an important part of the team. The Directors of the company make regular visits to all sites to speak to the employees. Birthday cards are sent by the directors for birthdays, Christmas and family events such as a new baby, wedding etc. They arrange a mix of social activities, all food and drink related.

Harbour and Jones ensure that employees feel they are rewarded for their efforts in a variety of different ways. Employees are given vouchers for meals at restaurants, food hampers, signed cook books and attend staff parties. The Company Directors also send employees Birthday cards and Christmas gifts.

Guardian Industries actively support local charities with donations. They financially support ‘Goole in Bloom' and care for the garden on a roundabout nearby. As part of their Healthguard objectives they also support a local children's football team, Goole Town Tigers.

To encourage team building they hold a range of events including a Family Days, Loss Control Celebration Dinners for various shifts and departments, free drinks at staff Christmas dinners and BBQs for those on Continuous Shifts.

Greenlight offer Management training for new managers, interview skills training. Presentation Training, Excel training, Language skills tutoring (one on one) - this is where English isn't first language. They organise individual English Business language skills lessons, Leadership training and Project Management skills.

Greenlight offer Management training for new managers, interview skills training. Presentation Training, Excel training, Language skills tutoring (one on one) - this is where English isn't first language. They organise individual English Business language skills lessons, Leadership training and Project Management skills.

Great Places are very proud of their "can-do positive" culture and this can be seen throughout the organisation at all levels. Employees regular receive emails of thanks from directors and managers which is gratefully received. Great efforts are made across the group to ensure that they continue to be a great place to work. One recent example was a scheme opening but on the day of the event they discovered rubbish strewn on the development in Blackpool. Staff from the nearby office all volunteered to help clean up the mess in time for the opening, a fact recognised by the chief executive and head of communications in an email to their manager.

Great Places has a charity fund which is set up to provide charitable aid to residents and tenants. The charity fund is managed by the Great Places staff committee and residents and tenants bid for this money via applications intended to make a positive difference to their lives. Examples can include supporting educational needs, life time ambitions or purchasing items that will help them in independent living. Decisions on applications are decided at monthly staff committee meetings and feedback is promoted to employees through a variety of internal communication channels.

The CEO of Grayling has an open and human approach, in which she communicates with all staff in a similar manner. She conducts some of the training in their Future Fit programme to maintain her profile across all locations. Staff are aware that all senior Directors are approachable and have no doors!

Appraisal and inductions toolkits are provided to all managers at Grayling. Internal management development training includes a series of People Power webinars covering topics including coaching, appraisals and mentoring. All staff are also allocated a mentor and Directors take part in a co-coaching scheme. External coaching is also available to Directors.

glue value chances for the agency to bond socially as it produces more effective teams and relationships. They ensure that they take all glue employees away for one weekend a year to a festival during the summer to simply have some fun and bond with fellow colleagues outside the formal confines of the office. This year gllue went to the Big Chill Festival and had their own enclosure within one of the campsites. Each department has an annual away-day which focuses on building and developing team work. They have regular special cinema screenings where they show work by glue staff.

glue value chances for the agency to bond socially as it produces more effective teams and relationships. They ensure that they take all glue employees away for one weekend a year to a festival during the summer to simply have some fun and bond with fellow colleagues outside the formal confines of the office. This year gllue went to the Big Chill Festival and had their own enclosure within one of the campsites. Each department has an annual away-day which focuses on building and developing team work. They have regular special cinema screenings where they show work by glue staff.

Once a month, they host a Friday get together, which is organised by a trainee or newly qualified solicitor which the firm pays for. In addition, they also hold a summer party. All employees along with their partners/spouses are invited and all food and drink is free. Each year the firm also organises a pantomime, where a venue and performing theatre company are hired to present a pantomime. Clients, employees and their families are all invited. Specific teams or departments frequently go out together to celebrate a specific event whether of a personal or professional nature.

Employees are actively encouraged to take on studies which will further their personal development and they will support this financially and/or with time. Regular cross department presentations take place to improve knowledge of expertise within teams or departments when an employee has been on a course or dealt with a particularly interesting piece of work. Email groups for personnel working on various sectors enable knowledge sharing. Non technical skills are valued and employees are encouraged to go on courses for self development and personal growth purposes. These include people management, time management and confidence building courses.

£25 Argos vouchers are given to staff for recognition of attitude or observations towards safety. They can also be passed out for outstanding work. Another form of employee recognition is being taken for meals or small awards such as t-shirts or torches.

Geometric Drilling have been awarded their Bronze Healthy Working Lives award and are working towards a silver award and information and advice is forwarded and posted on notice boards. Site staff are in an active job and are generally fit and healthy. All staff have to go on a medical. Staff hours are recorded in the office. Rig staff tend to work 12 hour shifts and usually either work 14 on 14 off or 21 on 21 off. If staff go over the 21 days then dispensation has to be requested from the office for that staff member to continue working. This ensures Geometric Drilling can keep an eye on staff well being. Geometric Drilling always try to ensure that staff have fair balance between work and time off and if they do work extra then they are paid overtime and Geometric Drilling always try to get extra time off given.