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The Cumberland

The Cumberland’s 'Power Hours' programme provides regular opportunities for personal growth, equipping managers with new skills and knowledge. This initiative encourages ongoing learning and skill utilisation, fostering advancement opportunities within the organisation.

The Cumberland’s Straight Talk for People Managers ensures that managers are well-informed, enabling them to confidently lead their teams. This initiative promotes trust, support, and care, strengthening the bond between managers and their teams.

The Cumberland fosters team spirit and a sense of belonging through regular social events such as the annual Christmas party, quiz nights, walks, and shopping trips. These initiatives help cultivate a fun and inclusive work environment.

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Architect & Surveyor

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Ryder Architecture

The people at Ryder Architecture enjoy annual team trips to expand their knowledge and strengthen bonds, as well as opportunities for international secondments. The organisation captures life beyond work, from charity events to family days, and invest in a culture that is built by its people, for its people.

Ryder Architecture’s internal summit, Blueprint is a unique aspect to the business. Hosted each year, the leadership team shares the practice’s goals for the year, announce promotions, and present awards which recognise great achievements, stand out contributions to the business, and outstanding project work.

Staff are supported through the provision of 80+ hours of training per person, per annum through the Ryder360 Learning Programme, which encompasses all aspects of personal development and covers personal skills. This is to support the continuing professional development of its people, including those working towards charterships.

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Business Services

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The Portfolio Group

The company's managers are developed internally, with a Director mentoring each manager through weekly one-to-ones, providing advice and guidance. Managers are also given the autonomy to lead their own teams, fostering a sense of ownership and responsibility for training and development.

Team spirit is fostered through shared experiences like the company holiday to Monaco and other regular incentives, including sports and charity events. The "wrap up" meetings bring all three offices together, ensuring every team member is connected and aware of company-wide achievements, successes, and promotions.

The company provides market-leading commission schemes and offers clear, transparent guidelines on targets and expectations. The annual all-expenses-paid incentive trip, such as the recent one to Monaco, is a reward for achieving targets and is open to all employees.

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Consultancy

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OFR Consultants

The purpose of the organisation’s OFR Mind Matters initiative is to promote awareness and educate colleagues about mental health to reduce the stigma and drive a supportive and healthy work environment. It aims to provide representation throughout the company to discuss, agree and manage ideas and initiatives. All representatives are trained Mental Health First Aiders.

OFR Consultants has always been an agile team and flexible in delivery. The team all got together for a few days at Rookery Hall for an away day. The organisation believes that while it is a team that can deliver remotely, the bonds formed when everyone meets together, are what make that possible.

OFR Consultant have further developed its Better Days programme, encouraging colleagues to volunteer their skills for charitable causes and give back to their communities. By providing each staff member with two days paid leave, this initiative promotes involvement and engages the team to undertake pro-bono work on a project close to their heart.

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Financial Services

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Newable

The company builds team spirit and a sense of belonging through social events like Thirsty Thursdays, Fish and Chip Fridays, and annual summer and Christmas parties. These initiatives promote camaraderie among staff and contribute to a vibrant work culture.

Newable offers a comprehensive benefits package including up to 30 days of holiday, a pension, sick pay, a free mortgage service, payroll giving, and an annual flu jab. This package is designed to reward employees fairly for their hard work.

Newable's leadership encourages employees to uphold the company's core values: Dream Big, Get Going, Grow Together, Always Improve, and Pass It On. These values guide the company's decision-making process and inspire employees to strive for excellence.

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Education & Training

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Lantra

The organisation arranges a variety of wellbeing and social events for all employees throughout the year in order to build relationships between teams. Furthermore, managers have access to their own social budget to arrange events for their teams, in addition to the corporate budget for social events.

Employee salaries are reviewed every 12 months and they are internally and externally benchmarked. High street vouchers are also awarded throughout the year to celebrate employees who show great performance or demonstrate great behaviours.

The organisation runs a management training programme to help their leaders develop and better support their teams. The programme is modular, focusing on leadership, managing a team, managing performance, communication, and goal setting

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Architect & Surveyor

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HLM Architects

All managers have received mental health training and stress management training, enabling them to recognise the signs of stress and burnout. This additional level of support recognises that managers may require extra support for their teams and guidance on how to manage difficult conversations, while giving employees the opportunity to have confidential and supportive conversations.

The organisation holds social events, quizzes, drawing classes, dinners, desk yoga, netwalking, and inclusive-tea breaks and it has hosted family events including colouring competitions, shed building, and garden design. It has also introduced Walk Out Wednesdays where employees leave their desks and go on a walk together.

The HLM Academy is designed to enhance progression through a variety of channels to suit different learning preferences. All employees are enrolled from day one. The Academy is uses two frameworks. The Skills framework outlines emotional and technical skills needed. The Behaviour framework sets out core behaviours and how colleagues should engage with each other.

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Leisure & Hospitality

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Heathcote & Co

The organisation has introduced a Social Committee inclusive of each department of the company. This committee is responsible for organising several events throughout the year, including two small gatherings and two large gatherings every year.

Heathcote & Co have introduced a ‘Moments of Magic’ reward and recognition scheme. Everyone can write names and on what occasion they have used moments of magic. Each quarter the organisation goes through the best ‘Moments of Magic’, and the chosen one receives a £100 voucher to the restaurant of the individuals’ choice.

Heathcote & Co supports its local community and charities by funding charitable events for its employees by paying their entry fees. Additionally, all full-time employees receive one fully paid day a year to support a local charity through fundraising events or by volunteering their time.

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FourNet

Weekly team calls have proved important in a flexible working environment and staff are also encouraged to use the tech company's instant-messaging and collaboration tools to improve communication and develop a strong team dynamic and identity. The tools are used throughout the business to encourage communication between teams.

Staff are asked to complete annual e-learning modules on diversity and inclusion to ensure that FourNet's culture is supportive of everyone, regardless of ability or background. Managers attend training on subconscious bias. The company supports Women in Technology initiatives and has increased the percentage of women at all levels within the business.

FourNet recognises that line managers have a significant impact on the satisfaction, productivity, innovation and wellbeing of staff, so it has set up a management development programme to enhance its leaders' skills that is accredited by the Institute of Leadership and Management.

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Law

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Convey Law

By having more employees working in the office, it has enabled the Company to bring employees together in groups such as the Book Club, ‘Books, Bevs and Banter’, and introduce the ‘Ministry of Fun’ to plan and organise social activities and themed parties such as ‘ConveyFest’, ‘Back to School’ and the annual Christmas party.

A new management development programme has been developed and delivered this year. Topics covered included: Understanding our Why, Managing People and Relationships, Building High Performance Teams, Managing Performance, Stress Awareness. Each topic gave practical take aways and has helped new managers feel confident and understand the importance of their role as a people manager.

Benevolence is one of Convey Law’s core values and support to charitable activities is a key element of its culture and process. Every client has the option of donating £10 at the end of their property transaction into their charity lotto through their non-profit organisation the Conveyancing Foundation which to date has raised £1,104,561.

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The Cumberland

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The Portfolio Group

OFR Consultants

Newable

Lantra

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Heathcote & Co

FourNet

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