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Workplace Insight Pro - The power of comparison tables

Employee Engagement Specialist Best Companies shares its comparison table feature - gain valuable insight into how you measure up against organisations of a similar size and sector.

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Mangerial Engagement - Driving performance at UK Power Networks

Case Study with Best Companies Client UK Power Networks on how managerial engagement insight and engagement workshops have helped increase overall employee engagement levels.

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Powerful SWOT Insights with Workplace Insight Pro

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.

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Engagement Planning - Action planning

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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Comments analysis telling the story of employee engagement - Workplace Insight Pro

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.

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Engagement Planning – Data dissemination

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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Engagement Planning - Increasing your response rate

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.

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Best Companies reaches fundraising milestone - £1.5million for UK charities

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.

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How we keep survey responses anonymous

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.

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How organisations can overcome engagement challenges in their non-hybrid workforce

Download your free copy of our Hybrid Working report and discover the how hybrid working, or lack of it, is affecting your employee engagement. Packed with data from nearly 350,000 employees across 468 organisations, explore what organisations can do to improve, despite the challenges many non-hybrid and partially hybrid companies are facing.

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How Costain learned from Best Companies’ data to achieve sustainable business growth

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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Cheers to careers: A focus on retention

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.

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What are the key drivers of engagement in 2024?

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.

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The New Wellbeing: Strategies for success

With wellbeing becoming an even bigger differentiator for organisations looking to attract and retain talent, what are the key areas to focus on? That’s what we discussed during Best Companies Live in May 2022, where our guests spoke about how wellbeing support in the workplace has evolved, and which of the support mechanisms they have put in place have had the greatest impact on overall employee health.

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Attracting and Retaining Talent: Innovative ideas for a fresh recruitment strategy

How can outside-the-box thinking help attract and retain talent? We found out during May 2022’s Best Companies Live event, where our guests discussed their innovative approaches to recruitment and the impact on their businesses. We also looked at ways to appeal to a new audience, and how to cut through the noise of a crowded market. Read on for the highlights.

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Giving Something Back: Responding to a global crisis

When a global crisis breaks out, how do organisations lead the way in showing that they care, and why does it matter? In the following article we share the highlights from the conversation during May 2022’s Best Companies Live event, where we hear from our guests about some of the initiatives and support systems they’ve put in place, and how their colleagues have got involved.

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Leading with Purpose: Can a values-based approach boost engagement?

How important to engaging employees is knowing that what they do each day makes a difference to the word we live in? That’s the question we asked at Best Companies Live in May 2022, when we spoke to leaders whose organisations exist for a purpose beyond that of simply making money. In the following article, we share the best bits of the conversation.

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The latest Best Companies to Work For in 2022 revealed during spectacular Q2 live broadcast

Broadcast from Media City in Salford, Manchester, on Friday 20th May, the second ‘Best Companies Live’ of 2022 revealed which organisations had achieved an employee engagement score high enough to gain a place on the national, regional, and sector-based League Tables of the Best Companies to Work For in the UK.

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Flexibility that Works for Everyone: Getting the balance right

If any question is likely to draw a diverse pool of answers, it’s “what would be your ideal working arrangement?” and deciding just what level of flexibility works for everyone is a challenge many organisations are currently facing. In the following article, we review the highlights from our panel discussion looking at flexibility in the workplace during February’s Best Companies Live.

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Managing the Impact of Fatigue: How to avoid burnout

After a constant battle with change and disruption in many employees’ personal and professional lives, the rise of burnout and the effect of fatigue is a reality that some are now facing. Here, we review the highlights from this session during February’s Best Companies Live, where we hear from our guests about the approaches they’ve taken to look after their employees’ wellbeing.

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Attracting & Retaining Talent: Standing out in a crowded market

With the ‘great resignation’ seeing more employees than ever choose to move on from their roles, just what is the best tactic for recruiting and retaining talent in the current climate? Here, we review the highlights from this session during February’s Best Companies Live, where we heard from the organisations that are leading the way in their approach to catching the eye of the jobseeker and creating a workplace culture that people don’t want to leave.

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Leadership in a Changing World: How to achieve success in challenging times

Leading and managing people is hard at the best of times but throw in the challenges of the last two years and it becomes particularly difficult. So just what are the hallmarks of great leadership in a changing world? In the following article, we share the highlights from our discussion at February’s Best Companies Live.

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The Climate Crisis: Commitment and action in the workplace

The climate crisis is arguably one of the most pressing subjects of our time. But how can making organisational commitments to protect the planet benefit both business and engagement? In the following article, we hear from our panellists speaking at February’s Best Companies Live event as to why being environmentally responsible matters.

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The first Best Companies to Work For in 2022 unveiled as part of new League Tables

Broadcast from Media City in Salford, Manchester, on Friday 18th February, the second edition of ‘Best Companies Live’ revealed which organisations had achieved an employee engagement score high enough to gain a place on the national, regional, and sector-based League Tables of the Best Companies to Work For in the UK.

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Rising to the challenge: Improving against the odds

It goes without saying that in any year improvements in employee engagement should be celebrated. However, for those that have managed improvements so significant that they have made the biggest change to their previous survey score in their size category – it is more important than ever. In this article, we hear from the winners of the Special Award for ‘Best Improver’ at Best Companies Live, where they discussed how they made such an achievement in such a challenging year.

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