What are companies doing with regards to 'My Team'

Planet IT invests in staff training and rewards, promoting personal growth and skill utilisation. The organisation’s focus on continuous learning through official courses enables employees to feel challenged and opens up opportunities for career progression.

Planet IT acknowledges the importance of wellbeing with initiatives like mental health support and discounted gym memberships. These initiatives help employees maintain a healthy balance between work and personal life, contributing to their overall performance.

With perks such as extended maternity leave, increased annual leave, and a day off on one’s birthday, Norman Broadbent offers a competitive benefits package, demonstrating its commitment to fair treatment of its employees.

Through comprehensive support programs, mental health counselling, and a flexible hybrid work model, Norman Broadbent prioritises employee wellbeing, fostering a healthy work-life balance and mitigating the impact of stress on personal health and performance.

Alexandra Palace provides its employees with a range of health and wellbeing benefits, including: eyecare and glasses reimbursement; free flu jabs; access to Validium, the Employee Assistance Programme that provides a free, confidential 24-hour counselling and advisory service; free staff meals when working on events; and subsidised weekly fitness classes.

All employees can enjoy discounts at the onsite cafes, restaurants, and bars with their staff pass. Every Friday, employees receive 50% off at the Pheonix Bar & Kitchen. Employees can also apply for free tickets to events and backstage bar passes.

Brown Recycling supports the employees growth and development within the business. With support from its HSE and HR departments to external training, the organisation recognises potential and encourages growth however it can.

The management team at Brown Recycling demonstrate healthy behaviours and habits, encouraging employees to do the same. By normalising conversations that may seem daunting to some, they support employees to seek help wherever maybe needed, with the additional benefit of its health platform, access to help is manageable in a variety of different ways.

ADDO Play’s Project Possibilities is a scheme that asks employees to share if they feel they can make a difference to the company outside of their role today, or want a new challenge to come forward. The aims of the scheme are to share knowledge, apply new or unutilised skills, providing opportunities to nurture ambition.

All managers at ADDO Play have access to manager focussed learning via its eLearning tool, The Entertrainer. The organisation is also rolling out Mental Health Champions training for all leaders in the business. On the job coaching from HR and workshop based sessions are also offered.

The leadership team fosters organisational clarity through several key practices. They prioritise open and transparent communication, ensuring that all employees are kept informed about company goals, changes, and progress. This is achieved through regular meetings where updates and expectations are clearly communicated. Additionally, directors conduct quarterly strategy sessions to review and refine the company direction.

The organisation works closely with The Message Trust/Community Grocer and have sent staff out on volunteer days to take part in gardening in the community and packing in a grocer's warehouse. The Flava People also donates some of its products and a proportion of its sales to the same charity.

Opus Technology does a family Christmas event each year where it purchases gifts for all the employees’ children, arranges a Santa and decorates the offices with Christmas decorations and games. Employees bring their families together for an afternoon of family fun with some added treats along the way, creating a sense of community amongst them.

Opus Technology continues to support Polar Bear International and the Kenya tree planting initiative. It has also recently donated £1700 to the Samson Centre, £2500 to Ukraine charities, £2000 to Turkey earthquake relief charities, and £2000 to Save the Children – raised through Christmas Jumper days.

Orega has a 'Wellbeing Board' located in the staff office. This board serves as a central hub for sharing information about various charities, support services, local exercise classes, and mental wellbeing courses. Furthermore, everyone at the organisation receives a ‘Wellbeing Day’ each year.

Orega’s 'Acting Up' scheme allows the organisation to offer temporary promotions to team members, providing them with a taste of the responsibilities and challenges of a new role before making a permanent shift. This 'try before you buy' approach allows employees to determine if the new position aligns with their career aspirations.

Age UK has worked to embed a culture which values mental and physical wellbeing throughout the organisation. This includes a sign-posted Wellness Action Plan, training for managers from the mental health charity, Mind, on how to recognise and support people’s mental wellbeing, and 50 Mental Health First Aiders.

Age UK has a two-level management and leadership-development programme. Its Empowering Managers Programme focuses on empowering its managers with the right tools and knowledge to thrive in their roles, as well as ensuring its people managers understand, and are aligned with, its culture.

Every year, Aquavista chooses a charity to support. This year is Young Lives for Cancer. The organisation hosts numerous events throughout the year to raise funds, including a walking challenge and its summer market.

Aquavista provides managers with a combination of face-to-face and online learning covering both practical skills around the employee lifecycle as well as understanding behaviours and the links between behaviour and performance. The focus is on getting the best from your team as a Manager.