Chess has been accredited as a 3-Star "World-Class" organisation for 10 years running, resulting in boosted sales and an overall improvement in business performance. How has its Best Companies data helped the organisation to achieve this level of excellence?
How did APM go from a Ones to Watch to a 2-Star Accredited organisation in four years? How did they increase their revenue from £10 million to £16 million while working with Best Companies? Find out how a data-driven plan led to these successes and more.
Costain first joined Best Companies in 2022 when they were searching for a way to improve employee engagement at their organisation. Find out how they used their data to identify areas of opportunity, to help inform their decision making at a boardroom level, and to increase their organisational health.
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How did Spain utilise clear communication to help them to win the Euros? And how has England developed a strong relationship between leaders, managers, and their team to reach consecutive finals? In this article, we look at how companies can bridge the gap between their leadership teams and their employees to help drive success through organisational clarity.
Newborns bring joy, but also a need for support. Companies are increasingly offering enhanced paternity leave, but is it just a feel-good gesture, or does it impact the business itself? This article explores the data, revealing how strong paternity policies can lead to a happier, healthier, and more productive work environment for everyone.
When it comes to the Leisure & Hospitality and Food & Drink sectors, there's an ongoing challenge when it comes to retention of employees. In this report, find out the key drivers of engagement and understand what really matters to the people at the beating heart of these industries in 2024.
For many women, the joy of motherhood can be accompanied by a harsh reality in the workplace: the ‘Motherhood Penalty’. There can be no doubt that this is a very real issue in UK workplaces. However, organisations in the Best Companies’ community are doing something quite different when it comes to supporting their female employees.
Download your free copy of our State of Engagement report and discover the key drivers of engagement for the year ahead. Packed with data from nearly 350,000 employees across 468 organisations, explore what organisations can do to improve, despite the challenges many are facing right now.
The culture that you cultivate at your organisation can be the cause of your collapse or the catalyst of your success. Find out what the building blocks are for an exceptional culture and how some of the best in the business have created a way of working that helps their people, and the organisation, to thrive.
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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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.
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.
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.
Case Study with Best Companies Client UK Power Networks on how managerial engagement insight and engagement workshops have helped increase overall employee engagement levels.
Best Companies provides a simple and concise breakdown of your employee engagement data. Delve deeper into your results to see a powerful way to visualise where areas for improvement lie.
Best Companies client, NHS Business Services Authority highlights the importance of action planning within your employee engagement journey and how involving your employees leads to shared ownership of improvement actions.
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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.
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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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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