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Comments analysis telling the story of employee engagement - Workplace Insight Pro

Knowing how to improve your employee engagement levels can be difficult, but using Best Companies' comments analysis feature found within Workplace Insight Pro provides further insight right from the horses mouth.

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Engagement Planning – Data dissemination

Best Companies details why it is important to cascade your results effectively and provides best practice around sharing your employee engagement survey results with all parts of your organisation.

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Engagement Planning - Increasing your response rate

Best Companies client Suez provides insight into how they keep response rates high and we take a look at the importance of having high survey response rates in order to improve employee engagement levels.

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Best Companies reaches fundraising milestone - £1.5million for UK charities

Best Companies fundraising imitative gives every organisation taking part in the b-Heard survey an option to donate a chosen amount per survey completed to a charitable cause that’s close to their hearts.

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How we keep survey responses anonymous

The b-Heard survey is strictly confidential meaning you can be honest and not worry about responses being tracked back to you. Our reports are based on the average responses from groups of no fewer than five employees and will not identify individuals.

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What is managerial engagement?

An engaged workforce leads to better working relationships, greater collaboration and ultimately, a more successful organisation. We believe managerial engagement is how well managers show 4 behaviours that are key to maintaining an engaged and productive workforce.

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Improving Your Experience With Best Companies

After listening to your feedback, we have some exciting announcements for the next year at Best Companies! Find out how are we improving our products and your experience with us for 2024.

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Best Companies 2021 Product Roadmap - March

What are the plans for Best Companies' products over the coming months?

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Winning behaviours: Inside FSP's blueprint for organisational success

Find out how Simon Grosse, CEO of FSP, created a foundation of success through the One FSP Playbook, focusing on winning behaviours and driving individual responsibility for upholding FSP's standard of excellence.

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On the money: How DF Capital utilised Best Companies’ insights to achieve 91% employee retention and boost performance

Discover how DF Capital leveraged Best Companies' data to dramatically improve employee engagement, resulting in a 91% retention rate, a seven-fold increase in lending, and sustainable profitability. Learn how focusing on clear communication and strategic alignment propelled them from Ones-to-Watch to a 3-Star Accredited organisation in just two and a half years.

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Community Conversation: How ElectraLink’s four-day working week has been a “game-changer” for business and engagement

Keeping hold of the best talent is a challenge that every company faces. Seeking an innovative solution to this problem, ElectraLink introduced a four-day working week. Find out how this practice not only increased recruitment and retention at ElectraLink but also drove organisational success in a range of other metrics.

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The Leadership Linnk

In November 2024, Linnk Group and its CEO, Jamie Sobrany, were presented with the Best Improver and Best Leader awards. Find out how a combination of Best Companies' data and a people-first strategy not only resulted in these achievements, but also improved retention, recruitment, engagement and productivity at Linnk.

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Attracting & Retaining Talent: Standing out in a crowded market

With the ‘great resignation’ seeing more employees than ever choose to move on from their roles, just what is the best tactic for recruiting and retaining talent in the current climate? Here, we review the highlights from this session during February’s Best Companies Live, where we heard from the organisations that are leading the way in their approach to catching the eye of the jobseeker and creating a workplace culture that people don’t want to leave.

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Leadership in a Changing World: How to achieve success in challenging times

Leading and managing people is hard at the best of times but throw in the challenges of the last two years and it becomes particularly difficult. So just what are the hallmarks of great leadership in a changing world? In the following article, we share the highlights from our discussion at February’s Best Companies Live.

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The Climate Crisis: Commitment and action in the workplace

The climate crisis is arguably one of the most pressing subjects of our time. But how can making organisational commitments to protect the planet benefit both business and engagement? In the following article, we hear from our panellists speaking at February’s Best Companies Live event as to why being environmentally responsible matters.

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The first Best Companies to Work For in 2022 unveiled as part of new League Tables

Broadcast from Media City in Salford, Manchester, on Friday 18th February, the second edition of ‘Best Companies Live’ revealed which organisations had achieved an employee engagement score high enough to gain a place on the national, regional, and sector-based League Tables of the Best Companies to Work For in the UK.

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Rising to the challenge: Improving against the odds

It goes without saying that in any year improvements in employee engagement should be celebrated. However, for those that have managed improvements so significant that they have made the biggest change to their previous survey score in their size category – it is more important than ever. In this article, we hear from the winners of the Special Award for ‘Best Improver’ at Best Companies Live, where they discussed how they made such an achievement in such a challenging year.

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Learn and grow: How do you develop your employees in a pandemic?

Putting an emphasis on delivering training is undoubtedly more difficult during a pandemic, however, some organisations found innovative and unique ways to continue their employees learning and development when Covid-19 hit. In the following article, we hear from the winners of the ‘Personal Growth’ Special Award at Best Companies Live, where they shared the practices they put in place and how their learnings will shape the way that employees train, develop and grow in the future.

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Wellbeing at work – how do we show we care?

Wellbeing might well be the buzzword of the last 18 months, with the pandemic heightening awareness of the importance of both mental and physical health. In this article, we hear from the four winners of the ‘Wellbeing’ Special Award, as they discuss what they learnt about wellbeing and the approaches they put in place during Best Companies Live.

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The importance of giving something back: meet the organisations inspiring us to do more

Through the difficulties of the pandemic, it has been truly encouraging to see many organisations playing a part to help those in need. But why does doing the right thing matter? In this article, we hear from four organisations who participated at Best Companies Live about the reasons why giving something back is so important to them.

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Back to the future: what will become of the workplace?

Since March 2020, the world of work has, for many, become very different. But what has the time since taught us, and what does it mean for the future of the workplace? In this article, we hear from four organisations who participated at Best Companies Live, about their learnings and their strategies going forward.

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Leading through a crisis: How to create certainty in uncertain times

In times of uncertainty, change, or crisis, employees look to the leaders of an organisation for clarity and direction. According to the winners of this year’s ‘Best Leader’ Special Award, there’s a few key areas of focus that helped them through difficult times, which they shared during a discussion at our recent Best Companies Live event.

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The UK’s Best Companies to Work For unveiled during spectacular live event

Broadcast live from Media City in Salford on Friday May 21st, the inaugural ‘Best Companies Live’ event revealed not only the very best organisations nationally, regionally and by sector in 2021, but also awarded the most deserving individuals with ‘Special Awards’ for their contributions to the workplace.

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What impact has Covid-19 had on employee engagement?

Download your free report - Covid-19 has seen organisations having to think on their feet, make decisions quickly and react swiftly to a landscape that is constantly changing and evolving. Take a look at survey analysis from over 50,000 employee responses that highlights workplace engagement factors impacted by Covid-19.

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