Sunday Times Best Companies to Work For

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Sunday Times Best Companies to Work For

• Survey measures workplace engagement by
  analysising respondents views in a number of
  categories
• Leadership
• My Company
• My Manager
• Personal Growth
• My Team
• Fair Deal
• Giving Something Back
• Wellbeing
• Survey entered for second time in October 2010
  and results were published in March 2011
• 64 of staff responded (67 in 2010)

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Sunday Times Best Companies to Work For
Results Best Companies Accreditation Score

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Sunday Times Best Companies to Work For
Comparative Positioning based upon overall
results Position compared against organisations
of a similar size, of which there were 90.
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Sunday Times Best Companies to Work For
Comparative Positioning based upon overall
results Position compared to Top 100
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Sunday Times Best Companies to Work For
Comparative Positioning based upon overall
results Position compared to Equity last year
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Sunday Times Best Companies to Work For
Best Result Fair Deal
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Sunday Times Best Companies to Work For
Worst Results Wellbeing and Giving Something
Back Wellbeing position compared to 90 similar
sized companies
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Sunday Times Best Companies to Work For
Worst Results Wellbeing and Giving Something
Back Giving Something Back position compared to
90 similar sized companies
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Sunday Times Best Companies to Work For

• Other Key Statements
• My Manager
• My manager is an excellent role model for me
  89th out of 90
• My manager motivates me to give my best every day
  89th out of 90
• Leadership
• Senior managers of this organisation do a lot of
  telling but not much listening 90th out of 90
• The organisation is run on strong
  values/principles 90th out of 90
• My Company
• I love working for this organisation 90th out of
  90
• I feel proud to work for this organisation 90th
  out of 90

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Sunday Times Best Companies to Work For

• Key Statements
• Personal Growth
• The experience I gain from this job is valuable
  for my future 90th out of 90
• My work is stimulating 89th out of 90
• My Team
• Working in this team give me a buzz 90th out of
  90
• People in my team go out of their way to help me
  90th out of 90

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Sunday Times Best Companies to Work For

• Comparator positions
• Small Companies
• Poole Housing Partnership Rank 19
• Mid Companies
• Luminus Group Rank 2
• One Vision Housing Rank 5
• Calico Rank 6
• New Charter Rank 16
• Chester and District Rank 27
• Plus Dane Rank 34
• Great Places Rank 37
• Harvest Rank 42
• Pennaf Rank 44

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Moving Forward How do we improve?

• October 2010 today
• Development of the Business Plan
• Customer Service Directorate Restructure
• Recruitment of new Executive Directors
• Development of key policies/strategies
• Restructure and embedding of SI (Customer Exp
  mgr)
• Establishing a performance culture (Performance
  Challenge)
• Improving communications
• Executive road show
• Staff conference
• Team brief
• Leadership forum
• Currently recruiting the Staff Panel
• Office moves bringing together CS Directorate
• Customer visibility in the organisation

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Moving Forward How do we improve?

• Share the results with Staff an honest approach
• Communication continue the conversation
• Align People development activities to the
  categories to develop a corporate understanding
• Organisational Development and Cultural Change
• Leadership
• Business Planning and Performance Management
• Total Reward
• Staff Engagement
• Learning and Development
• Target achieve Top 100 by 2013/14 as
  illustrated in the Business Plan