About Hall & Partners Europe

Managers set clear, specific and tailored objectives for employees at yearly appraisal sessions, designed to measure and assess developmental progress. Outside of formal appraisal meetings, managers continue to monitor employee progress through regular meetings and informal catch ups. This allows managers and employees to work together closely throughout the year to further tailor objectives if required, and to set new objectives if progress allows. In line with this structure, praise and recognition are given when an employee excels in order to motivate and show appreciation for their efforts and dedication in his/her role. This can range from wider visible recognition (e.g. personal mention at company meeting) to more personal commendation (e.g. in smaller department team meeting).

Hall and Partners believe they offer a significantly different development programme as they don’t just give people the skills to do their job they teach them to think. This is key as they charge clients a premium for the advice and strategic thinking that they provide. They do this in a number of ways. They have a programme called ‘Outside In’. Every month external speakers come into the agency and give a lecture on an interesting topic related to our work. This year this has included a behavioural economist, a person working in digital creative ideas and a journalist who taught them to think about how they communicate effectively. Hall and Partners train people to think quickly and to be able to express their ideas well. They use actors as trainers who specialise in treating people to think ‘in the moment’.
They have a programme called ‘Know’ which trains people in the latest company innovations and the latest trends – this year it covered new brand relationships, social media and ways to analyse ‘big data’.
Knowledge sharing and creative thinking is encouraged. They have a number of bloggers, our creative team send out the best ad of the week and we all share interesting articles. Hall and Partners then measure their values in their appraisals and have designed appraisals to reflect not just doing a good research job but ones that shows that people have thought at every stage.

Hall & Partners invests in a variety of team building events throughout the year and quarterly company meetings for all. One of the most established events held each year is “Imagine Day”, a unique interactive forum for cross-company collaboration and the generation of new ideas to continue building our company strategy. Imagine Day provides a chance for everyone at Hall & Partners, no matter what their level or aspect of the business, to contribute their individual perspective. It represents the start of their planning process for each new year, helping them to identify otheir goals and priorities based on the hands-on experiences of their employees. This provides a strong focus as well as energy for developing initiatives which will support the continued success of Hall & Partners business and company culture. This year (2013), the purpose of Imagine Day was to leverage their digital expertise and encourage smarter digital thinking and behaviour across the company. The main goals of the day included: Enabling all employees to make a tangible contribution to how they develop their business around their digital offer, Working together to identify where they are now with the current scope of digital tools and behaviours, and where they want to be Prioritising their actions by plotting a road map to success By encouraging open exploration and debate both within and across teams, Imagine Day allows for the entire company to be fully immersed in the shaping and development of Hall & Partners’ company vision.