My Manager
My Team

Team Cohesion = Performance

Our research shows strong team relationships boost productivity, decision-making and innovation. The My Team factor measures what matters most.
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Golley Slater

The organisation champion, celebrate and nurture raw and emerging talent and it is essential that personal development and training programmes not only deliver to Golley Slater's business needs but also open up career opportunities for individuals with aspiration and ambition. The organisation recognises that the employees are the life blood and it is their professionalism, skill, knowledge and experience that will ultimately deliver the return required.

The team is the critical pillar of Golley Slater's culture. Pride is taken in the ability to bring people together, to dismantle barriers and to ensure that creativity permeates every part of the company's operational being. Golley Slater works hard to maintain a relaxed and informal workplace. To assist teamwork, annual staff events and team building days take place.

Golley Slater provides all managers with a ‘Core Training Module'. All managers and senior staff are encouraged to attend the training sessions to assist them with their managerial roles.

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Glu Mobile Ltd

Glu recognises achievement. Once a quarter, employee's achievements are rewarded and recognised via the “Best of Glu Award”. This is voted for by the employees themselves and rewards staff who strive to continually display the organisation's cultural values.

Glu recognises achievement. Once a quarter, employee's achievements are rewarded and recognised via the “Best of Glu Award”. This is voted for by the employees themselves and rewards staff who strive to continually display the organisation's cultural values.

Glu recognises achievement. Once a quarter, employee's achievements are rewarded and recognised via the “Best of Glu Award”. This is voted for by the employees themselves and rewards staff who strive to continually display the organisation's cultural values.

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Glasgow Science Centre

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Gifford

Actively encourage all employees to achieve professional qualifications relevant to their role. Providing sponsorship for further education courses and have a strong framework of mentoring, performance review and personal development planning. They have structured professional development schemes in place and many of their staff participate in activities outside as a means of developing and growing personal skills.

Strong and visible commitment to staff involvement and funding of charitable projects both within the UK and overseas. They have recently supported the development of a mini barrage project in Mali - two of our engineers visited Mafele to help with the design and build of the barrage. They have two engineers about to visit Nepal to provide support for a water project.

The leadership style is reflected in the working environment. Employees enjoy considerable freedom to pursue their own ideas and to interact with others - the aim being to stimulate the creation of new and more effective solutions to difficult engineering challenges.

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GB Oils Ltd

Several green initiatives such as greener IT equipment and a recycling scheme has reduced Bayford's carbon footprint by approximately 459 tonnes. On top of that the company gets heavily involved in fundraising events with time off given to employees for local activities and the board of directors get involved having recently dressed up as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles at a fancy dress ball.

All new starters at Bayford are invited to the New Starters Lunch with the board of directors and are assigned a buddy to act as their personal mentor for the first six months. The MD and CEO go on road show's throughout different departments as an idea gathering and strategy sharing activity.

The management team work in focus groups to find ways to improve different areas of the business for the benefit of the whole organisation. Bayford believe that by employing quality individuals and training them where appropriate they can allow a great deal of freedom to empower managers within their role.

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FRC Group

As a social business they use a recycled biodiesel product, made from waste oil in the food manufacturing industry to power the fleet of vehicles in one of the operations. They measure the companies' carbon footprint and have found that last year, using biodiesel has reduced their carbon dioxide emissions by 11,000kg.

Teams are encouraged to take ownership of team targets. All teams are involved in setting their own team targets and they meet regularly to review their progress. During these meetings, team members are actively encouraged to suggest improvements in what they do or how they work, in order to excel team targets. This encourages strong teams as everybody knows what is expected of them working towards one common goal.

FRC Group operates an Intermediate Labour Market Programme which we call ‘Driving Change.' Every year they employ 21 individuals from long term unemployment and socially excluded backgrounds and employ them for a year.

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Foster's EMEA Ltd

Foster's EMEA have continued to include a number of individuals within there business to attend coaching courses to help develop their skills & they are rolling out a coaching champion programme to embed a coaching culture in house.

Fo*STar Awards are also used to reward employees who exemplify the Foster's behaviour.

Fo*STar Awards are also used to reward employees who exemplify the Foster's behaviour.

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Foster Care Associates Group of Companies

FCA offers secondment opportunities to other areas of the business for learning and development experiences. They also offer buddying and mentoring programmes by experienced managers to support others. Promotion is often from within and vacancies are advertised internally.

Foster Care Associates have team away days together with team building and team meetings to enhance communication channels. The Vision and Values of the company encompass the importance of working as one team.

Celebrating success forms part of the company's values and staff are rewarded for outstanding achievements through honorariums, internal promotions, long service awards and celebrating success stories using the intranet and local FCA news-letters. In addition FCA is currently running a company wide 'Employee of the Year' award and 'Accolade' award.

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Fitch Design Consultants

Strong teams are created through team and company meetings. They also hold a creative day and the studio design has been done in creative teams.

Strong teams are created through team and company meetings. They also hold a creative day and the studio design has been done in creative teams.

Fitch Design Consultants offer assistance with professional qualifications. They also have external show pieces of new material, ideas and concepts for creative inspiration and training creativity days.

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Fisher German

Fisher German has company sports teams such as a cricket team. They are also proactive in terms of health and safety to protect employees interests.

Fisher German has company sports teams such as a cricket team. They are also proactive in terms of health and safety to protect employees interests.

Training is available at employees request to develop and grow along with appraisals twice yearly.

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