Team Cohesion = Performance

The Leader of this organisation operates an open door policy throughout the organisation and encourages interaction with open plan floor arrangements. The Leader and senior management also interact with employees through organisational walks, participation in charity fundraising events in-house and regular departmental meetings.

Buhler Sortex promote wellbeing within the organisation through a range of different programmes such as a no smoking policy where employees have been offered assistance to give up smoking, eating healthily and providing healthy options in staff canteen. There is also a sports club that provides activities such as salsa dancing, badminton and football. They have a flexible approach to accommodate personal or medical appointments through time credit under flexi time rules and provide opportunities where employees' families are invited to events such as family open day, children's parties and staff dinner dances.

At the core of Brockenhurst's or Brock as everyone knows it locally, approach has been recognition that if the students are to have a great educational experience then the people who provide that opportunity both front of house and behind the scenes must be motivated, interested and knowledgeable. The latest step on the improvement journey has been the introduction of Good to Great a change process that has staff at its heart. Once a year all staff are involved in identifying the areas of change that would make most contribution to improving the college's performance. This is used to prioritise projects and investment. Last year this process led to major changes in the sixth-form timetable, the introduction of personalised learning, a revision of the tutorial system and a drive on reducing paperwork – the bane of any educational establishment. The college works hard to build and maintain a shared sense of mission and does this through detailed induction and training; all college training days, end of term socials, morning meetings, weekly staff newsletters and ½ termly newsletters.

At the core of Brockenhurst's or Brock as everyone knows it locally, approach has been recognition that if the students are to have a great educational experience then the people who provide that opportunity both front of house and behind the scenes must be motivated, interested and knowledgeable. The latest step on the improvement journey has been the introduction of Good to Great a change process that has staff at its heart. Once a year all staff are involved in identifying the areas of change that would make most contribution to improving the college's performance. This is used to prioritise projects and investment. Last year this process led to major changes in the sixth-form timetable, the introduction of personalised learning, a revision of the tutorial system and a drive on reducing paperwork – the bane of any educational establishment. The college works hard to build and maintain a shared sense of mission and does this through detailed induction and training; all college training days, end of term socials, morning meetings, weekly staff newsletters and ½ termly newsletters.

This organisation has a flexible approach to accommodate both personal and medical appointments to support the work/life balance. Employees who work overtime or weekends are encouraged to either bank the hours or take time in lieu. They monitor employee wellbeing on an individual basis rather than formally. Employees also have the opportunity to invite partners to Christmas and Summer parties.

Within the workplace senior leaders work alongside their teams in an open plan office where possible and operate an open door policy. There are regular updates and communications about the business. In addition there are ‘all hands' meetings at which the leaders update the employees on strategy, new wins, pipeline and financials.

BACP ensure employees are rewarded for their efforts through subsidised social events, occasionally gifted additional holiday around Christmas / New Year, encourage a good working environment and positive workplace culture.

This organisation provides and encourages team activities to be carried out throughout the year, both formal and informal these activities range from quiz and bowling nights to treasure hunts, netball matches and a Christmas lunch.

Bottomline Technologies Europe Limited supports a wide range of charitable activities and offer a ‘give as you earn' through payroll. To encourage charitable activities employees receive charity sponsorship for marathons and the total raised by the employee is matched by the company through their company contributions. With many of their charitable donations made to local charities and organisations, they also provide financial support to the Reading Boys Boxing Club, through both direct donations and through hire of the facility for fitness classes.

Bottomline success plays a tremendous part in the high morale of the employees and as more employees are being rewarded with stock options, they are also shareholders and therefore personally invested in the company's success. This organisation recognises that employees sometimes work long hours and hard to achieve excellence, with this in mind they understand the importance of work/life balance and operate a flexible working policy, time off in lieu and attendance at family events.

The Company promotes and encourages a healthy lifestyle for all staff. They pay staff up to £200 per year for sporting activities and gym membership and provide interest free loans for bicycle purchases as well as providing cycle racks, showers and lockers for kit. As a preventative measure they also hold two workshops per year entitled Stress and Lifestyle Management presented by a qualified general practitioner. The company monitor the number of hours employees are working by ensuring that employees starting work early or finishing late sign in and out. To discourage long working hours the building is only open from 7am until 7pm and is closed at weekends.

The Company promotes and encourages a healthy lifestyle for all staff. They pay staff up to £200 per year for sporting activities and gym membership and provide interest free loans for bicycle purchases as well as providing cycle racks, showers and lockers for kit. As a preventative measure they also hold two workshops per year entitled Stress and Lifestyle Management presented by a qualified general practitioner. The company monitor the number of hours employees are working by ensuring that employees starting work early or finishing late sign in and out. To discourage long working hours the building is only open from 7am until 7pm and is closed at weekends.

This organisation provides a range of different team activities through out the year such as quiz nights and buffet in the local pub and a party at Christmas. They recently had a treasure hunt in Windsor town centre for all employees followed by river boat trip in the evening.

BII provides recognition for employees through a performance reward called The Extra Mile award, this is given to one employee every two months. They also have a long service award for 10 years service of a gift voucher for £100 and a bottle of champagne. In addition a £50 award is given for the best suggestion submitted to the staff suggestions box every two months.

Baxter Healthcare ensure people feel valued and are rewarded for their contributions fairly, they encourage employees to be fully aware of what their job entails and what is expected of them and encourage innovation and continuous improvement.

The Baxter International Foundation helps non-profit organisations expand access to healthcare around the world. This foundation focuses on improving the quality and accessibility of direct healthcare services, with a special emphasis on the needs of the disadvantaged and children. Baxter also get involved in a number of local initiatives to support the community including volunteering at the local school which involved planting bulbs in their garden, painting the local sports pavilion, clearing rubbish to give it a general tidy up and sponsoring the local youth soccer academy.

There are regular personal performance reviews to identify employee's strengths and needs, specialised training plans are also identified. The range of support provided includes training, work shadowing and a buddy system. For other areas there's team leader and leadership training available for those employees who want to progress.

This organisation sets annual objectives and targets with the aim of continuous improvement and improving the sustainability regarding the environment. Within the workplace they encourage recycling cardboards, plastics, metals and paper. Andor has recently been accredited to ISO 14001 Environmental standard.