Team Cohesion = Performance

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.

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.

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.

There is a management forum for senior managers from all locations and all departments which meet regularly to discuss the business and any particular challenges.

Feather Brooksbank provide staff with free fresh fruit every week in all offices. The Edinburgh and Manchester offices have a large cafe bar area and have a strict no lunching at the desk policy to encourage people to take a break and relax while they are eating. Subsidised massage sessions are available onsite in Glasgow every month.

Employees are fully empowered to manage the customer base in its entirety. In house training provides all staff with the opportunity to achieve their full potential. This is coupled with monthly one to one meetings for all staff with their team leader where training and development is reviewed.

FCm hold Buzz Nights which focus on team cohesion and achievements. They also hold area meetings and management conferences with fun team building events.

The company runs an employee suggestion scheme which provides vouchers to employees for the suggestions they come up with. The rewards paid to employees are dependent on the type of suggestion the employee puts forward, with the greatest rewards paid for suggestions which drive the business forward, help improve business processes or reduce costs.

They hold an annual company team building event held and organised by Blue Hat, one of the UK's leading team building companies.

Emerald runs an internal academy which is a broad based corporate university, offering a range of learning opportunities accessible to all employees. The emphasis on action learning means that programmes are formed around cross functional teams running real life projects which will then be implemented as part of the learning experience.

Emerald endeavours to use local companies where possible and is committed to being a loyal corporate citizen. They obtained the Two Ticks Disability in early 2007 and are committed to employing and developing people with disabilities. On an ongoing basis they work with local education establishments to provide young people with work experience and opportunities.

As part of the annual stress awareness day, all employees were given a company branded stress ball to reiterate that HR and senior managers are there to help in times of hardship and general work pressures.

Reward vouchers are provided on the spot for a job well done. These are given where the company feels an employee has made a particular effort or won a valuable piece of business for the company.

The reward and recognition scheme is designed to offer an instant recognition or a thank you for delivering an outstanding contribution, effort or performance at a level above and beyond an individual's normal job requirements.

The One Planet and One Community ambassador networks consist of employees who champion sustainability performance and EDF intend to give every employee the opportunity to be an ambassador.