All Motivation and recognition articles – Page 115
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Case Studies
Case study: Awaydays drive engagement at Enterprise Rent-A-Car
Car hire company, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, which employs 3,000 staff in the UK, runs various awaydays throughout the year.These include monthly Elite Club events, a sales incentive in which the top 10 performers from each region are treated to a day out or a weekend away as a reward for sales ...
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EXCLUSIVE: Grass Roots staff to take part in charity bike ride
Grass Roots Group staff are to take part in its second annual charity bike ride to raise money for Marie Curie.The bike ride, which will take place on 25 May, is a 106-mile journey from Bath to the organisation’s head office in Tring.Daniel Gillborn, head of commercial operations at Grass ...
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Case study: Volunteering is a revelation for Cancer Research staff
Cancer Research UK avoids traditional team-building days, instead encouraging all of its 3,500 employees to take part in volunteering days away from the office.These include working in Cancer Research shops during the busy Christmas period. Jane Vivier, the charity’s reward and recognition manager, says: “We offer opportunities which benefit individuals, ...
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Source takes employees sailing and skiing
Media recruitment firm Source boosts employee engagement with quarterly nights out for the whole company, plus weekend trips away twice a year.These events are kept separate from work-related activities, and range from dinner and drinks to go-karting, bowling, medieval banquet nights, wine tasting and a karaoke party on a private ...
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Filmology launches new platform for cinema vouchers
Filmology has launched a new employer-branded platform that allows employers to offer cinema tickets to staff seven days a week at more than 440 cinemas across the UK and Ireland.Employees log on to the portal and type their location to find out what cinemas in their area they can purchase ...
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Capita Hartshead staff to volunteer at a primary school
Capita Hartshead is among the employers introducing a volunteering initiative to its staff, which allows them to volunteer at a primary school in Sheffield.The initiative, which will take place on 18 April, will ask children to record their ambitions, their hobbies, places they would like to visit and people they ...
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Music lessons hit the right note with employees
Employers can ensure their employees hit the right note by providing them with music lessons at work.Keynote Team Building aims to provide organisations with teambuilding and communication skills guidance through music.Musicians Stuart Bulsara and Amy Lorne set up the firm after struggling to find a rewarding career after leaving university. ...
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Barclays among employers offering volunteering scheme to staff
Barclays is just one of the employers offering staff the opportunity to volunteer with Destination Dreams, a scheme that offers staff the opportunity to support children battling life-threatening conditions.The global banking group actively promotes the volunteering initiative, which is organised by charity Caudwell Children, to its employees.A spokesperson from the ...
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Employers to review flexible working policies ahead of Olympics
More than a third of organisations intend to review their flexible and home working policies ahead of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, according to research by Deloitte.This is compared with just†14% that said the same this time last year, according to the Games readiness research, which surveyed 200 ...
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Towers Watson joins government's Employee Engagement Task Force
Towers Watson has joined forces with think tank, Tomorrow’s Company, and employment relations specialists, the Involvement and Participation Association (IPA), to help deliver the government’s Employee Engagement Task Force agenda.Prime minister David Cameron announced the task force in March 2011, with the aim of providing a range of practical opportunities ...
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UKRD Group ranked as top employer in The Sunday Times list of 100 best companies to work for
Radio station operator UKRD Group has been chosen as the best mid-sized company to work for in The Sunday Times list of 100 best companies for the second year running.The employers listed were commended in a number of different areas, including best for fair pay, and employees that are least ...
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EXCLUSIVE: University of Lincoln to run activity sessions for staff ahead of Olympics
The University of Lincoln is to run a number of free activity sessions for staff ahead of this year's Olympic and Paralympic Games.The activities are aimed at celebrating the Games, raising awareness of wellbeing and lifting morale. They include Frisbee, archery, trampolining and Greek dancing, and have been timed to ...
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Case study: Deloitte's onsite perks add up
Deloitte’s London campus has a variety of onsite facilities for staff, including a gym, a health suite with doctors and dentists, a beauty therapist, a masseuse, a physiotherapist and a variety of restaurants and coffee bars.Stevan Rolls, UK head of HR at Deloitte, says: “That package is the kind of ...
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Case study: Law firm D Young maintains work-life balance
D Young recognises the importance of work-life balance. For this reason, it does not provide workplace sleeping pods for staff. Jennifer Mead, HR manager at the law firm, says: "Even though we are a law firm, we would not encourage people to sleep at work. We would rather they go ...
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Case study: Snowboarding spurs extra effort at IntaPeople
Recruitment firm IntaPeople decided to retain the annual team reward for its sales force to get them to go the extra mile in challenging times for the recruitment industry.By closely aligning the reward - a sales conference and snowboarding holiday in France - with the strength of performance shown by ...
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Dairy Crest focuses on total reward
Case study: Flexible working appreciatedSteven Phillips has been supporting applications team leader in Dairy Crest’s business systems department since February 2010. He has been with the company since August 2000, and worked previously as a business analyst.In his current role, Phillips has responsibility for the operational management of a wide ...
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Managers have significant impact on employee engagement
The vast majority (94%) of respondents to The managers’ role in engagement research, conducted by Grass Roots, agreed that line managers have a significant impact on employee engagement.The research, which polled 75 international employers, also found that the most common barriers preventing managers from engaging employees were lack of support ...
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Engaging and motivating staff in tough times
If you read nothing else, read this …Receiving employee benefits continues to be a contributor to employee satisfaction and engagement.Employers need to consider what impact the recession had on the way employees work, and are therefore rewarded and motivated.Ensuring employees are engaged is essential to succeed in the battle ...
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Unilever opens onsite hair salon for employees
Unilever has proven that during these austere times the word ‘cuts’ does not always have negative connotations.The consumer goods supplier has opened a hairdressing salon at its UK and Ireland head office in Leatherhead, Surrey. The salon, stocked with Unilever products, is staffed by two qualified hair stylists, offering employees ...
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Motivated chef batters pancake world record
An Australian chef has received the ultimate form of recognition for his hard work and dedication – a place in the Guinness Book of World Records 2012 for a 76cm stack of pancakes.Andy Wrobel’s precarious tower of pancakes eventually fell over, but only after the world record was confirmed.He battered ...