Engage for Success Pledge Wall

The following organisations have pledged their commitment to put the principles of employee engagement at the heart of their people strategy and to become an Advocate for Engage for Success.

See what these organisations are doing and how they have contributed to the Engage for Success movement by clicking on the logos.

If you would like your organisation to become an Engage for Success Advocate and feature on this Pledge Wall, we would like you to share your organisation's story of employee engagement. How do you put the principles of employee engagement at the heart of your people strategy? How is your organisation an Advocate for Engage for Success’ Four Enablers for inspiring people and workplaces to thrive?

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Employee Voice Event 30th April 2021

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This organisation participated in a panel discussion focused on one of the four Engage for Success enablers, the Employee Voice: What are the best organisations doing?

At this event, David Macleod interviews Joe Wiggins, International Director of Communications at Glassdoor, about the power of the employee voice and the best places to work.

Andy Goram then leads a panel discussion on what it really means to listen to your people, what can get in the way, and the impact it has on your organisation.

Panel guests included Clive Smart and Caroline Cuthbertson from Sky Betting & Gaming, Rebecca Jeffs from Serco, and Sean Leahy from the NHS Essex Partnership University Trust.

Contributions also from Nita Clarke introducing us to the topic and Amber Kelly explaining the four Enablers of employee engagement – Strategic Narrative; Engaging Managers; Employee Voice; and Integrity.

This event was hosted by Sarah Pass, EFS East Midlands Area Network, and Nottingham Trent University."

Phoenix have a bold ambition: to always strive to make their business the best place their colleagues have ever worked. To achieve this, they’ve placed colleague engagement firmly at the heart of their people strategy. Find out more here

Eden has long been a supporter of Engage for Success and the ethos it has for business success through employee engagement and listening to the Employee Voice. Like all organisations Eden has been through a very different couple of years with Covid and the recovery from that, the timeline also saw Eden turn 20 years old from opening to the public in 2001 and there was a key decision around this to revisit our Mission, Vision and Values to dovetail with the new 5 year strategic plan and ambitious growth programme.

Never more has Eden’s mission been more relevant and we’ve ‘grown’ (up) into a serious organisation and convenor in the space of the climate crisis and what we call all do to halt progress of this. Following hosting the G7 leaders, Eden were invited to COP 26 in Edinburgh to share our mission and how we could help both individuals and organisations have a positive impact on reducing the climate crisis. The time was perfect to return to what we said we did, refresh this and look at how we actively include our employees in this.

Earlier this year (2022) we developed a workshop around Mission and Values that all our employees were invited to attend so that we could hear their voice on this area and how we ensure that values are alive, embraced and fully support delivery of our mission. From that we have now got a summarised version of values statements that we will shortly be sharing with the team and to bring these to life, behaviour frameworks to show what good and great looks like. In addition, there will also be a leadership behaviour framework which are about to complete and sign off with our Senior Leadership team. Once these have gone live, we will be inviting all employees back to a further workshop to try them on for size and work with them for 3-4 months to ensure that they are right.

As part of this we have also refreshed out Internal Communications and Engagement Strategy, and our Learning & Development Strategy so that we can reflect many of the things we heard through the workshops and ensure that our values and behaviours are weaved through everything that we do. This will take time, we will keep returning to make sure that the fit remains right, and if it doesn’t, what we do to get things back in shape again.

As Eden grows both nationally and internationally over the coming 5 years, this will be a cornerstone of everything that we do when developing ‘Eden in a Box’ to take to other sites with new teams so that we are sure the culture we have developed and built at Eden can be seamlessly transferred to other sites, employees and partner relationships.

It’s going to be an exciting 5 year plan.

Dawn S George, Chief People & Culture Officer, Eden Project Ltd

Coventry City Council’s Employee Engagement Plan provides a mechanism for a strong employee voice, dialogue from the bottom to the top of the organisation and celebrating success and achievement. The plan encompasses the following six key areas to enhance and improve employee engagement across the Council. FIND OUT MORE HERE

UK’s largest motorway services provider, 500 colleagues across the UK. One of the 3 core pillars of our strategy is “Create our winning culture”. Our people are truly at the heart of everything we do here – we understand that our colleagues are the ones who create our customer experience, who drive efficiencies and who ultimately help us hit our KPIs. From our leadership approach to being an inclusive employer and ensuring every single colleague shares in our success, we want everyone at Moto to see their part in our purpose: brightening people’s journeys through life. Colleague voice is vital – we have an annual have Your Say survey, but also pulse points at milestones along the colleague lifecycle, and we prioritise feedback and taking action. We also put our values at the heart of our decisions every day – ensuring that our colleagues enjoy their work, feel empowered and supported. In recent years we have invested in colleague communications and colleague experience, having dedicated teams behind this, ensuring we are really living and breathing our people-first approach. FIND OUT MORE HERE

Consulting – 3 employees – Melbourne Australia In our Better Workplace Projects, we take a deep dive into an organisation’s culture through the lense of the 4 pillars of employee engagement to identify their strengths and opportunities for improvements against each pillar. We then develop a Better Workplace Plan with their representative Better Workplace Team to implement the improvement agenda leveraging their strengths and generating the improvements. FIND OUT MORE HERE

HS2 is Britain’s new high speed rail line being built from London to the North-West, with HS2 trains linking the biggest cities in Scotland, Manchester, Birmingham and London. It is the largest infrastructure project in Europe and the most important economic and social regeneration project for the UK in decades.

Major civil engineering works are now well underway, with £23 billion contracted into the supply chain and over 350 active sites between Crewe, the West Midlands and London, supporting almost 30,000 jobs, including over 1,100 apprentices.

HS2 is now entering peak construction between the West Midlands and London, with early works underway between Birmingham and Crewe and the hybrid Bill to extend the line to Manchester progressing through Parliament.

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Balfour Beatty Vinci is a long-established joint venture between two global leaders in the delivery of critical infrastructure. Together we are responsible for designing and building part of the most exciting railway project to better connect people across Britain: HS2.

We have employed approximately 2500 employees to deliver the West Midlands section of HS2’s Phase One Route safely, sustainability and on time and budget.

Working on the largest infrastructure project in Europe, together we’ll leave a history-making legacy for our country, our industry, and future mega-projects.

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Roopa Nagori – As an academic and HR Consultant I have been working with a number of organisations to implement employee engagement frameworks to measure and improve employee engagement and I’m happy to share the strategy and results from my assignments.

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