What are companies doing with regards to 'Personal Growth'

The company's Senior Management team operate an open door approach and very visible within the organisation.

The company provide English language classes for the Housekeeping department.

Vision and values are vital at Skyscanner and they communicate them in multiple ways. When someone joins Skyscanner they will have an induction session with senior members of the team to explain their vision and values and how these are practically applied within the organisation. The values are reinforced throughout the offices and Skyscanner are extremely proud of them. They are displayed to visitors and their employees by being integrated into their office design. Company communications also continue to reinforce their values, they have quarterly company updates which allow the entire company to be updated on their progress towards their vision, CEO lunches and COO question time where employees are invited to lunch with the CEO and ask anything they'd like. The vision statement and what is being doing to achieve this is central to these discussions. Skyscanner store a lot of information on their knowledge management system and intranet but find that the most effective way of communicating the vision and values is through their employees, they have become advocates for their values, using them to guide behaviours but also communicating them others around the business.

In addition to pay reviews, bonus and commission schemes there is a staff reward system called Sky High. Sky High is a scheme that enables individuals to nominate colleagues for making an over and above contribution. One of their core values is Collaborate to Comp(l)ete and this scheme supports this value by enabling employees to nominate colleagues for recognition as a result of an over-and-above contribution, rewarded by vouchers in their local currency. On top of this, every quarter one of those individuals nominated for a SkyHigh award is chosen as the overall winner of the “SkyHigh Quarterly Award” and receives a cash prize.

The company hold regular charity events that get everyone at SilverDoor involved. One of which, their annual sports day, is held at a local cricket club and, this year, was attended by more than 80% of employees. The day included a mixture of team games, relay races and other classic sports day events. They even rented a 115ft inflatable obstacle course and put on a BBQ that encouraged higher donations. The annual boys vs. girls netball game is another date in the SilverDoor calendar that everyone looks forward to each summer. The company also host quarterly SilverDoor Parties for all staff at the office in Chiswick. The company supplies food and drink for the evening and members of the SilverDoor Academy organise pool, darts and table football tournaments. The company's Marketing department put together quarterly internal mail outs ‘Inside SilverDoor' which contain all the latest goings-on in the company, industry gossip and highlights from the previous three months. There's also a section, ‘SilverDoor Recognised', which allows managers to acknowledge employees with exceptional performance.

The company have two 5-a-side football teams and a netball team that are free for all staff to join. They also offer discounted memberships at Virgin Active and Fitness First Gyms which is available to all staff. SilverDoor provides on-site shower facilities that staff are able to use after attending the gym or cycling into work. Employees can join the cycle to work scheme which allows them to purchase a bike using a company interest free loan which they are then able to pay back monthly over the following year.

The company's brilliant office space plays a big part in promoting collaboration. Double height ceilings and multiuse furniture solutions make it an extremely flexible place to work. All employees are provided with a MAC laptop on arrival, so everyone has freedom to hot-desk. They offer plenty of desk space, sofas and amazing break-out areas for people to have informal meetings and brainstorm. They also have a dedicated canteen/lunch area in the basement where staff can gather over lunch, or break off to one of the snug areas fitted with sofas and soft lighting for more relaxed chats. Rufus knows the importance of taking time out together. Each team has an allocated budget that they can use for social activities. In addition, the events team Freshly Squeezed puts together a bespoke programme of monthly classes and events to help motivate and inspire. These include everything from shoe design, sushi making and movie nights – this means many opportunities to work together with colleagues in smaller groups. They also run regular clubs, including Wine club and Book club. Their Party Animals team also organise lots of opportunities for teams to bond outside of work. Every month, they run an initiative called “Life Lessons With…” These are a fortnightly team challenge where staff nominate a topic, then get together and present their understanding of the topics to each other. In addition they run monthly ‘Masterclasses' - show-and-tell sessions designed to share with each other the work in their respective areas.

Aside from their fixed and regular reward initiatives like the Employee of the Month award, Xtra Mile programme and end of year Red Lion awards, which are voted for by colleagues and directly reward staff performance with tangible benefits of up to £1000, they have worked hard to develop one of the most diverse and comprehensive benefits packages in their industry. Part of their benefits sees the company curate a programme of cultural events called Freshly Squeezed, which aims to cater for the ‘whole person' by offering a wide range of topics. Staff are encouraged to get involved at their leisure and within work hours to develop new skills. This gives staff the opportunity to take a break, with the intention of feeling valued and making Rufus a rewarding place for them to come to work. Rufus have had fantastic feedback from both permanent and freelance staff who say they haven't seen such a wide-ranging and unique initiative at any other agency. Their benefits seek to reward staff with everything from time off to discounts on leisure activities (1 free cinema ticket for Vue and Cineworld each week; 40% off British Airways flights; 25% off Eurostar) to looking after their physical and emotional health and wellbeing. On a daily basis, if people need to work late to hit a deadline, they'll be provided with as much beer, pizza and ice cream as they can manage!

They sit in an open plan office so they are with the rest of the team. They know everything there is to know about the brand. They have an "open door" policy when it comes to asking/answering questions. They are extremely approachable. They live and breathe the company. They take ownership.

They sit in an open plan office so they are with the rest of the team. They know everything there is to know about the brand. They have an "open door" policy when it comes to asking/answering questions. They are extremely approachable. They live and breathe the company. They take ownership.

Rocket Fuel have a Town Hall teleconferencing meeting with all their offices worldwide to communicate the company vision and strategy.

Every Monday morning Rocket Fuel hold an All Hands Europe Meeting, where they use a teleconferencing visual system to connect all their Europe offices together for a Europe Team meeting that is led by SVP and General Manager EMEA . During the 1 hour meeting it give the entire team a commercial update and to share communication in a collaborative interactive way. Each office has an opportunity to share their weekly successes and challenges. Rocket Fuel hold Quarterly Business Review meetings with the whole team and discuss the performance of the past quarter, along with a variety of presentations on new products, new incentives and client and agency feedback. The UK Managing Director runs the meeting and acknowledges the top performers of the quarter in each department, presenting each individual with gifts. The meeting lasts for 3 hours in a collaborative way, offering each department time to present. After the meeting the team have team drinks in the bar to encourage open communication and cross departmental interaction in a relaxed social environment. Rocket Fuel also hold social events in the office every quarter such as Halloween parties, Hawaiian BBQ's, celebrations of birthdays, births and engagements which also creates a good social platform for teams to celebrate and have fun together during work.

Supported cascaded training , Management training in numerous topics is delivered by managers, which results in a greater understanding of the material.

Teams are encouraged to use communal areas to boost communication and creativity. Activities such as pool and table tennis are available as well as computer consoles. Benches outside are available for meetings.

Qubit offers a number of options for employee development, and they encourage all employees to take an active role in their own development by discussing career options with their line manager. They offer financial support for training qualifications that are for employee's current or future roles, as well as extra skills they would like to learn. For example, they have sponsored a member of the client team to attend an intensive coding course to further his knowledge of how our client engineer team work and to develop his skill set. Furthermore, the company sponsor several members of the finance team to complete their qualifications .They offered our client team several SQL and tableau sessions. The company is piloting a Lynda.com subscription for use in our marketing team. As well as using external providers, they run weekly internal training on our product updates, competitor information, sales processes and other requested topics. The company also run annual peer to peer appraisals, supplemented with the employee engagement survey tool which offers employees to give feedback to their peers whenever they wish.

Qubit runs a monthly bonus scheme named the Voice it, Own it, Do it Award. The purpose of this is to reward employees for work that goes above and beyond their day to day job role and improves organisational efficiency. This aims to reward those that embody the company values- Voice it, Own it, Do it. There are monthly open nominations, where peers nominate their team mates and detail the reasons for nomination. The winner is decided by senior management and announced company wide in the weekly kick off meeting. The company also share why everyone was nominated to all Qubit offices. The winner is also entitled to a monetary bonus of £1000.