About Sue Ryder

Sue Ryder's flexible approach to development and their varied interventions makes it easy for everyone to access the opportunities that suit them, their role and their development needs. These include training workshops, development programmes, coaching and mentoring, action learning sets, 360 feedback, secondments and a variety of other interventions.

Sue Ryder have organised a leadership event for over sixty leaders from across the organisation, called Make the Future, which they plan to do on an annual basis. Each Directorate within the organisation has two employee conferences per year, to ensure employees are involved in strategy and planning, and have an opportunity to share knowledge and to network. Sue Ryder’s Organisation & People Development team offer facilitation support and expertise to support team working, including workshops and the use of psychometric tools where required. The Executive Leadership Team and Trustee team are committed to their continued team development, and have taken part in a combined leadership team workshop, and a 360 degree feedback process. The organisation’s Fundraising Directorate actively encourages staff to get involved in their events, and their flagship event 'Starlight Hikes' saw a high number of staff getting involved in a 10k midnight walk together. This was a fantastic opportunity to support their cause, and to do so with their colleagues and supporters.

Sue Ryder hold focus groups and create top level action plans at directorate level, then these are cascaded down to a team or care centre level, where people get to share ideas and feedback and create a plan for how any issues raised will be addressed. Engagement champions are now leading on this and supporting the leadership team to drive the action plans forward. Sue Ryder also have a 'dragons' den scheme for people to submit new ideas and receive funding to implement them.