Virgin Media O2

At a time when skills shortages are rife, particularly in the tech sector, any organisation that can home-grow talent stands to be head and shoulders above the competition. And that’s exactly the approach the winner of Best apprenticeship scheme, telecoms giant Virgin Media O2, adopted.With the newly merged entity responsible for maint...

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Coventry Building Society

Instead of a performance management process with objectives, mid-year reviews, end-of-year reviews and a performance rating, Coventry Building Society wanted something new and empowering that would help to create a place where all its people could be brilliant. Coventry asked its staff what they thought of the current performance manag...

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Deutsche Post DHL Group

In an effort to break away from traditional approaches and become more employee centric amid the height of the pandemic, Deutsche Post DHL (DPDHL) recognised the need to create a fresh learning strategy and reflect the needs of its 570,000 employees worldwide.As the company pondered how to join up all those people and ensure everyone h...

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SUEZ recycling and recovery UK

When it launched its sustainability initiative, national environmental solutions company Suez wanted to enhance its employee experience by harnessing and increasing employee enthusiasm for sustainability.Its people share the firm’s commitment to the environment and to a triple bottom line, balancing people, the planet and profit in eve...

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Citizen

Housing provider Citizen summarised its commitment to its ~1,000 employees in terms of supporting and equipping them to do the best job they can. But, like many employers, the pandemic changed its whole approach: a 2020 survey showed 90 per cent of their employees wanted to work more flexibly in the future, while another poll a year la...

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Bosch UK

When Bosch found through its Mental Health at Work 2020 summary report that 41 per cent of its staff experienced mental health symptoms caused or worsened by work during the pandemic, the organisation knew it had to do something.Spurred by the data, and also determined to combat the decline in positive mental health impacting absence r...

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Midland Heart

The Covid-19 pandemic posed a challenge for organisations to foster a safe and supportive working environment, where individuals felt included, valued and empowered to reach their full potential with colleagues’ wellbeing more important than ever. With this approach in mind, Midland Heart developed a wellbeing strategy that supported t...

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The Clear Company

Starting on a mission to tackle diversity challenges the construction sector is often familiar with, The Clear Company leaned on to its innovative equality, diversity and inclusion strategy to address the imbalance within its client’s workforce – infrastructure firm Balfour Beatty.The client was eager to understand the strategic value ...

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OpenBlend

OpenBlend created its unique performance management model, designed to facilitate effective employee-manager conversations, in a bid to move away from the traditional ‘tick box’ method of monitoring performance and objectives. Through its partnership with leading estate agency Foxtons, established in 2020, the company achieved its goal...

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Shaw Trust

With 3,600 employees and 800 volunteers, Shaw Trust is a not-for-profit social company that supports people with disabilities and social and economic issues from ‘kid to career’. The trust provides services to a variety of clientele that encounters numerous obstacles and it saw the value of hiring and maintaining diverse talent in deli...

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Arla Foods Ltd

Being part of the dairy industry, which is a cooperative business model with tight learning budgets, Arla Foods recognised the demand for employees to learn efficiently.As its 2017 annual employee survey indicated a need for enhanced skills development, but also opportunities to grow in terms of employees’ careers, the company responde...

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United Nations Development Programme

The well-known international organisation focused on eradicating poverty and inequality, the United Nations Development Programme, launched its initiative, Leaders for 2030, last year. Its initiative, a comprehensive senior executive leadership programme, sought to excel in leadership and people management, business management and inte...

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Circle Health Group

Circle Health Group is the UK’s largest private healthcare provider, offering a network of 50+ private hospitals and employing more than 8,000 permanent employees. In 2020 a merger between BMI Healthcare and Circle Health took place, creating Circle Health Group. This merger brought big changes and challenges, including the merging of ...

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Standard Chartered

The topic of hybrid and flexible working has become a key issue for people teams across a range of organisations, and the winner of the people analytics initiative has shown how vital this is in the workforce of today. UK-based global bank Standard Chartered understood this need, which is why, in 2021, they launched their phased approa...

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Police Service of Northern Ireland

In 2021, the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) – the policing organisation for all of Northern Ireland – decided to transform its approach to recruitment by launching a new initiative that would alter perceptions about the PSNI as a career option, confront recruitment barriers, and increase the reach of its advertising among un...

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SUEZ recycling and recovery UK

Recycling and waste management company Suez launched Payroll Autosaving for new joiners last year. After testing the waters with a trial, in 2021 it launched the scheme in partnership with TransaveUK, automatically enrolling new starters in the scheme with the option to opt out.The company said EAP data and employee survey results duri...

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Maverick Media

After video game creative agency Maverick Media put the finger on the pulse of its employees’ experience, it decided to act on the feedback and foster better engagement and employee experience.Realising that the company’s work-life balance was affected by a significant amount of overtime work, the organisation decided to launch the ‘Ha...

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United Nations Development Programme

This entry impressed the judges with its clear focus on tackling underrepresentation across the organisation on a global basis and across many aspects of inclusion. The programme was committed to changing lives and changing perceptions by releasing talent with demonstrable support and leadership of those pioneering this approach. The U...

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Gemma Berrington

Softcat Ltd

After being a fully remote workforce during the pandemic, Softcat transferred to a hybrid working model in November 2021, a move it hoped would encourage employees back into its offices to improve culture and employee engagement. Gemma Berrington, early years L&D team leader at Softcat, noticed how fundamental the induction process was...

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Jamila Lecky

Mott MacDonald

At Mott MacDonald, the employee-owned engineering, development and management consultancy, a global people transformation programme has been underway since 2019. Jamila Lecky, who had joined two years prior as a change consultant, launched her initiative, ‘Connected Conversations’, in 2020, which sought to improve the firm’s performanc...

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University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust

The Covid-19 pandemic brought challenges to the NHS like none ever seen before, testing all staff to their limits, frontline or otherwise. Critical to the health service’s work during the two years was its HR teams, whose vital role in everything from nurturing staff wellbeing to redeploying workers into other roles helped support work...

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Circle Health Group

Circle Health Group (CHG) is the UK’s largest group of independent private hospital brands, with 50+ hospitals, clinics and specialist centres, across the UK. We are the UK’s most patient-focussed healthcare organisation and have been acknowledged by ministers for our support of the NHS during the pandemic. Having made significant inve...

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