Team Cohesion = Performance

Quarterly briefs are delivered by the CEO and executive team numerous times over a 2 day period which is open to all employees. The CEO and executive teams walk the floor and operate an open door policy.

They offer a variable pay scheme and informal recognition and a one to one personal thank you, or recognition at at team events.

Counselling and assistance is provided for all employees with work related or personal problems that affect job performance. A wide range of leave options are also offered including adoption, family care, wedding leave and maternity returners are encouraged to take a return to work coaching programme.

Counselling and assistance is provided for all employees with work related or personal problems that affect job performance. A wide range of leave options are also offered including adoption, family care, wedding leave and maternity returners are encouraged to take a return to work coaching programme.

Regular internal meetings are attended by all employees and conducted by members of the Executive Team and Country Managers. These meetings are also recorded on video and placed on the intranet for anyone unable to attend the UK meetings. Monday Matters is a direct internal email communication sent to all staff relaying relevant company information and news.

For Colleagues in Focus, employees are nominated by their peers on a quarterly basis for recognition of achievements and projects worked on. There are many awards which are awarded to employees for their fantastic work including Spot Bonuses, Employee referral and the High Achievers Club.

The views of staff and their career progression have always been of paramount concern to the Board. The organisation encourages employee's personal growth with dedicated training programmes, mentoring schemes and quarterly appraisals. All members of staff are assigned a mentor who they meet with regularly to act as extra guidance through their personal and career development.

All employees are eligible for the private health scheme and yearly eye care vouchers with a voucher towards the cost of glasses. The organisation also arranges head massages in the office.

An open door policy is in operation. Feedback is given to employees for their hard work and specific processes are set up for sharing successes.

There is a flat management structure. Incentives are given to incorporate team performance and individual contribution. They hold team nights out and monthly wrap ups.

They provide an active Health and Safety Committee and have a policy and pension scheme and advice. They also offer an open door policy and offer support for any issue whether work related or not.

All employees have full communication of the vision and goals the business has going forward. They also encourage employees to feel able to make mistakes, learn from them and move on. The Managing Director is accessible to anyone at any time for any issue no matter what.

Staff in every office choose their own charity, ensuring local support is provided throughout the UK. All money raised by employees is matched to the charity by the company. As an energy consultant they are constantly reducing companies' energy costs and so reducing carbon emissions and improving the environment.

Staff in every office choose their own charity, ensuring local support is provided throughout the UK. All money raised by employees is matched to the charity by the company. As an energy consultant they are constantly reducing companies' energy costs and so reducing carbon emissions and improving the environment.

Their general managers and senior field management team undertake a BA (Hons) degree programme in leadership and management. Again this is undertaken at work.

The majority of their management team have been promoted from crew members. They have structured career paths and training programmes which enable individuals to progress through from the Crew Development Programme to the Management Development Programme.

They believe their senior leaders should be highly visible and should communicate in a personable way. The breadth of channels and methods of engagement speaks volumes. Their range of engagement tools includes executive lunches, coffee mornings, divisional briefings, specific intranet sites, e-zines, podcasts, webcasts, branch TV broadcasts, DVDs such as Scottish Widows Our Story, Lloyds TSB radio recordings which employees can dial into via telephone..

They believe their senior leaders should be highly visible and should communicate in a personable way. The breadth of channels and methods of engagement speaks volumes. Their range of engagement tools includes executive lunches, coffee mornings, divisional briefings, specific intranet sites, e-zines, podcasts, webcasts, branch TV broadcasts, DVDs such as Scottish Widows Our Story, Lloyds TSB radio recordings which employees can dial into via telephone..