What are companies doing with regards to 'Personal Growth'

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Leisure & Hospitality

Rick Stein Group

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The Rick Stein Group supports the personal growth of its employees through a structured Performance Review Programme and access to a diverse range of training resources on its employee app, Plaicebook. This encourages continuous learning and improvement.
The Rick Stein Group recognises its employees through the Stein's Values Heroes and Champions Awards, rewarding them with significant prizes. The company also offers a range of staff benefits, such as a 50% discount in all restaurants and increased holiday allowance based on loyalty.
The Rick Stein Group is deeply committed to giving back to society. Its work with charities like Crumbs and St Petroc's, offering kitchen placements to young people with learning difficulties and providing meals for the homeless. The organisation also supports environmental causes, such as tree planting initiatives with Beach Guardian.
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Recruitment

Oyster Partnership

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Oyster Partnership invests heavily in personal growth, with initiatives like the Oyster Academy for trainees, comprehensive management training, and partnerships with external training professionals, all aimed at broadening employee skillsets and offering advancement opportunities.
Weekly one-to-one meetings with managers and the CEO's mentoring programme 'Leading from the Front' ensure employees feel supported, trusted and cared for. This personalised engagement helps in fostering a nurturing work environment.
Oyster Partnership's commitment to wellbeing is evident through their annual mental health and wellbeing workshops, office bootcamps, and provision for private sessions with a psychiatrist. These initiatives address stress, work-life balance, and personal health, promoting overall wellbeing.
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Recruitment

Operam Education Group

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Operam Education Group is committed to fostering innovation and maximising potential. It offers personal growth opportunities through its 'Career Journey' programme, which is bespoke to roles within the business. In addition, there's an 'Inspiring Leadership' course, Graduate program, and interdivisional mobility to support career development.
Operam Education Group encourages team spirit and a sense of belonging through several initiatives. These include competitions, virtual meetings, coffee mornings, away days, and team dinners. The company also introduced a 'Day in the Life' feature to promote interdepartmental understanding and camaraderie.
Operam Education Group values fair treatment of its employees, offering a range of support for personal circumstances. It provides private healthcare and implement the 'Step Up' sales competition, which offers a range of prizes for reaching set goals, demonstrating OEG’s commitment to rewarding its colleagues.
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Not For Profit Body's

NCC - Innovating for Industry

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NCC's commitment to personal growth is evident in initiatives like the Composites Conversion course. This programme provides non-composites engineers with intensive training, offering a unique opportunity to expand their skill set and grow professionally.
NCC's values the role of managers in employee development. This is demonstrated through its provision of mentoring and coaching programmes, which help ensure that employees feel supported, trusted and valued by their immediate supervisors.
NCC's participation in the SusWind project demonstrates its commitment to giving back to society. This initiative aims to discover and demonstrate viable ways to recycle composite wind turbine blades, reflecting the organisation's dedication to environmental sustainability.
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Leisure & Hospitality

Mowgli Street Food

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Mowgli Street Food promotes personal growth through the Mowgli Career Tree, a clear progression guide for all employees. It also offers various development opportunities including the Ops Development Programme, the Mowgli JS Apprenticeship Program, and external courses, ensuring that employees' skills are fully utilised and their growth is nurtured.
Mowgli Street Food ensures that managers are supportive, caring, and trustful by providing mental health awareness training. This not only helps managers to support their own wellbeing, but also equips them with the skills to spot if a team member is struggling, reinforcing the supportive culture within the company.
Through The Mowgli Trust, Mowgli Street Food gives back to the communities it serves, supporting a range of charities and local initiatives. This commitment to social responsibility is integral to the company's ethos and is valued by its employees. Since its founding, the organisation has donated nearly £2million to its chosen charity partners.
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Architect & Surveyor

LSI Architects

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LSI Architects promotes employee growth through its 'grow our own' approach, fostering talent from trainee level upwards. Regular one-to-one mentorship meetings ensure skills are utilised and challenges are met, fostering a sense of advancement.
Employee satisfaction at LSI Architects is reflected in the company's annual financial rewards, including pay increases, bonuses and Christmas vouchers. The company's fairness is also evident in its promotion of trainees.
LSI Architects prioritises employee wellbeing through its collaboration with Mind and Cake People Development. The company provides mental health and wellbeing training, ensuring employees have strategies for resilience.
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Law

Kingsley Napley LLP

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Kingsley Napley invests in its employees' development. An eighth of the firms training budget is dedicated to sponsorship agreements for qualifications, with opportunities for advancement such as Lean Six Sigma, thus utilising and enhancing their skills.
Kingsley Napley promotes team spirit and a sense of belonging. The firm provides a social budget for team events/activities, supports sports teams, a choir, and encourages interaction through weekly newsletters, making employees feel part of a cohesive unit.
The firm prioritises its employees' mental and physical wellbeing by investing an annual budget of over £100,000 into initiatives such as an Employee Assistance Programme, private medical cover, and a cash plan for all employees and partners. It also provides employees with a £200 per annum wellness subsidy to spend on any activity they choose.
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Charity's

Julia's House Children's Hospice

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The charity promotes personal growth through comprehensive management training focused on self-understanding, leading others, and practical people management skills. In addition, the organisation offers bursaries for formal qualifications, fostering skill development and career advancement.
Julia's House Children’s Hospice ensures managers are equipped with advanced interpersonal management skills. The charity also promotes open communication through initiatives like the Employee Forum and managers 'walking the floor', enabling employees to feel supported and trusted.
The charity's leadership is highly accessible, with the CEO hosting 'Virtual Coffee Mornings' to interact directly with staff. The leadership team's commitment to the CHILD values and open communication fosters a positive organisational culture.
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Utilities

Good Energy

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The company champions personal development through initiatives like the annual programme for junior staff and the Customer Ops development pathway. These schemes challenge employees, optimise their skills, and open doors for career advancement.
Good Energy provides a £500 remote working and travel allowance, ensuring employees feel valued. This gesture also reflects how the company compares favourably to other organisations in terms of pay and benefits.
Employee wellbeing is a priority at Good Energy. The company offers premium access to the Headspace app and the YuLife Employee Assistance Programme. These initiatives support mental and physical health, promoting a balance between work and personal life.
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Leisure & Hospitality

London Gatwick

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London Gatwick provides opportunities for personal growth in a variety of ways. From supporting professional and personal development to the sponsorship of qualifications to a range of leadership development programmes. It has implemented an interactive career pathways map so colleagues can understand the different roles that exist within the organisation to help with career planning.
London Gatwick provides a fair deal to its employees through its comprehensive and inclusive approach to Total Reward. This includes a performance bonus scheme and a range of core and flexible benefits focusing on physical, financial and mental wellness, tailored to support individual lifestyles.
London Gatwick focuses wellbeing on physical, mental & social and financial aspects. Physical includes virtual GP access, discounted gym memberships and a Cycle2Work scheme. Mental health is supported by an Employee Assistance Programme, colleagues trained as Mental Health First Aiders and initiatives driven by Able2. Life assurance and income protection for all supports financial wellbeing.
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