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Some examples of team activities that CCHA have are bowling, the Christmas party, celebratory events, bring your family to work days. At the Staff conference there is a theme of working together, a networking workshop with external expert/internally and externally, they look at the staff survey and look at current events and changes.

Some of the training activities CCHA carry out are core training - role specific, external qualifications, external training relevant to roles and customer services training. Formal qualifications supported either through time off, funding or other resources are Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, Chartered Institiute of Housing, Degree and Masters qualifications, National Vocational Qualifications and Learning Academy.

Annual prizes awards for exceptional performance, nominated by Heads of Department and other members of staff. The categories presented are for academic staff, teaching quality, innovation in teaching, research quality, success with research income generation. For professional staff, customer service award, going beyond the call of duty, profiling raising for the school and professionalism. Each prize is worth £1,000 net. Successes are also recognised and communicated through company newsletters and all staff meetings. Prizes are also awarded to academic staff that publish in the top academic journals

Annual prizes awards for exceptional performance, nominated by Heads of Department and other members of staff. The categories presented are for academic staff, teaching quality, innovation in teaching, research quality, success with research income generation. For professional staff, customer service award, going beyond the call of duty, profiling raising for the school and professionalism. Each prize is worth £1,000 net. Successes are also recognised and communicated through company newsletters and all staff meetings. Prizes are also awarded to academic staff that publish in the top academic journals

The Carphone Warehouse have an internal training academy and they run workshops on a bi-weekly basis in their support centre. Topics include Problem solving, Insights discovery, Time management, Influencing skills. They have also designed a two day management development programme in partnership with Lane 4 Managing the Best Buy Europe Way Managing the BBE way is delivered in the UK by the MD team. Any people managers from CPW or Best Buy can attend. The workshops run each month, at locations across the country. This is an exciting programme, that will challenge every leader and allows the freedom and openness to take your own personal plans and tactics back to your team

Best Buy Europe is a family and they love to celebrate their achievements and get to know their colleagues across the UK. The Best Buy Europe Ball 2010 was the biggest corporate event of its kind in Europe and was attended by more than 7,000 colleagues. The Hollywood themed 'Premiere' was held at London's Excel Centre and featured performances from N-Dubz, Little Boots and Tinchy Stryder. Each colleague was sent their own personal invitation as a thank you for all their hard work, dedication and support over the past year.

CRUK give merit based salary awards and bonus payments to their staff, the latter is based on a mix of company and individual performance. When staff have achieved 10 years service with CRUK they receive a certificate and pen. After 25 years service, they receive a £400 gift voucher and a certificate. They also include all those who have achieved a service milestone of 10 or 25 years plus in a celebratory lunch. Staff can receive up to £25 in John Lewis vouchers as a “thank you”.

The event that staff are taking part in this year is Race for Life. They also take steps to recycle office based materials such as paper, plastics and ink cartridges and the staff in the lab recycle solvents. They are moving to new offices with CRUK situated at the Angel in Islington. This will consolidate all office based activities in one place reducing their carbon footprint. CRUK encourage employees to use public transport whenever feasible and they operate a cycle purchase scheme for those who wish to cycle to work.

There is an attendance bonus scheme for everyone who hasn't had a day off sick in a year. They get a cheque for £125. They also get entered into a draw and the winner receives £1,800 in addition to the £125 and the runner up receives £600 in addition to the £125. Once an employee has been with Cambridge for 3 months, take along 3 payslips and are given a card for the company shop. They can then purchase food and health and beauty products such as Marks and Spencer food and big bags of sweets!

An environment project team has just been established as part of the Lean initiative headed up by the Hygiene Manager. He and the Operations Manager have already introduced a number of initiatives to increase their recycling streams e.g. waste paper collection bins, plastic baling, metal collection. In addition they have been working with the Carbon Trust to identify means of reducing our Carbon Footprint.

Cambian provide support for their managers through appraisals and coaching with their HR manager, specifically for HR related processes. Support is identified on an individual basis. Managers have the option to attend seminars, managers forums and any other peer support activities that they wish. All facilities have a CPD budget and allocate accordingly.

Cambian provide several events throughout the year for their staff some of these include the Christmas party and sports day. Staff at Cambian also receive a dinner on achievement of their targets. Staff are provided with clinical away days, manager meetings and evenings.

Through their self service HR information system, all employees can access their total reward statement. This provides instant and current access to Information on all aspects including their salary and benefits package. They have an in-house smoke cessation programme delivered by the NHS to help employees quit smoking They have an NHS delivered Weight No More Programme for all staff to promote all aspects of healthy eating and weight Management. In addition they have a food co-op which delivers fruit and vegetables to our HQ office on a weekly basis. As part of our wellbeing week, we have held food cookery demonstrations to promote health eating options and dishes and our staff cafe sells healthy food options as part of its menu range.

Business and Enterprise North East have an Environmental Group drawn from a range of staff from across the business who undertake their role on a voluntary basis. Their role has involved the development of the Environment Strategy which sets out their long-term commitment to the environment. It describes success, proposes performance targets and identifies issues and solutions to overcome them and covers, carbon management, sustainable procurement and consumption, protecting the environment and people strategy.

The Leader knows who everyone is and knows a lot about them. He cares very much for them as individuals and has shown his support in numerous ways over the years in times of personal troubles as well as professional difficulties. He took part in the various fund raising events and could be found in the car park each Monday washing cars with everyone else or collecting the entrance fees at the family day. Everyone enjoys the fact that we do not have a heirarchical approach and the Leader himself is very approachable and very passionate about BRITA and the team.

When employees deserve recognition for high achievements then the Department Head or in some cases the Managing Director will send out a communication to the company to recognise the achievement and ensure that the individual's contribution is highlighted to their colleagues. Ad-hoc bonuses are also used where particularly good work has been done. For example, when ISO 9001 accreditation was achieved, the employees who completed the project were given an additional bonus. Ad hoc bonuses have also been paid out for exceptional sales achievements.

Brit Insurance provides an annual statement detailing a breakdown of all the benefits and compensation individuals receive. They also provide an annual performance review, annual salary review and performance related bonus.

Brit Insurance provides an annual statement detailing a breakdown of all the benefits and compensation individuals receive. They also provide an annual performance review, annual salary review and performance related bonus.