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theme: Corporate Social Responsibility
Shortlisted for “Community”
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Co-ownership / Delivering Profit / Sharing Success
Burdens, a distributor of products for the construction industry, is challenging the role of business within society with its model that combines employee co-ownership with a pro-active charitable foundation.
Shortlisted for “Community”
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Children And Parents Managing Privacy And Reputation Online
City of London law firm Speechly Bircham educates children and parents to manage their privacy and reputation online, an initiative that has grown from a one-off project to become a charity with its own brand.
Shortlisted for “Sustainability”
The @one Alliance: Change Towards Sustainability Leadership
A collaborative organisation CR&S strategy that leads to the reduction of embodied and operational carbon in our delivery to more than 5 million people in the East of England.
Shortlisted for “Community”
Supporting London’s Youth
City & Guilds and London Youth have produced an accredited Quality Mark for their members, to ensure youth organisations achieve long lasting improvements.
Shortlisted for “Community”
Encouraging Consumer Recycling
How Coca Cola Enterprises is focusing on educating and inspiring people to recycle more through recycling programs, executed at outdoor events such as Summer festivals or through ongoing partnerships with retailers.
Shortlisted for “Community”
Building Financial Literacy and Helping tackle Existing Debt
With the support of Barclays, Community Links is educating and empowering people of all ages with the skills to take control of their finances and avoid getting into debt.
Shortlisted for “Community”
Train Apprentices and Get Sustained Employment for Them
In line with local, regional and national agenda, we take the young people aged 16-24 and train them in an open manner with great industry experts.
Shortlisted for “Community”
Relationships & Sexuality, For People With Learning Disabilities
A highly visual and interactive DVD-ROM on sexual health, relationships and well-being for people with learning disabilities, affording them their human rights and equipping them with knowledge to protect themselves.
Shortlisted for “Environment”
Influencing Behavioural Change for a more Sustainable Future
Positive behavioural change and significant employee engagement reduce environmental impacts in the workplace, through the effort and influencing skills of volunteers, around simple campaigns which capture people’s imagination and support.
Shortlisted for “Community”
Making Britain financially capable – a Sustainable Approach
Lloyds “Money for Life” gives teachers and community workers the skills they need to talk confidently to adults about money management.
Shortlisted for “Environment”
Develop the Most Environmentally Empowered Workforce
Planet Champions is an employee engagement programme designed to benefit both our environmental impact and business performance, by involving staff in raising awareness of the environmental performance of our restaurants.
Shortlisted for “Community”
How to Engage Youth with Politics for More than 15 Minutes
MyUK is entertaining, informal digital learning from Parliament Education Services that nurtures creativity and political literacy in young people, giving them their own ‘personalised’ version of the UK.
Shortlisted for “Community”
How To Engage With The Community: Rack Gives Back
“Rackers” help to compile a shortlist of small local charities where we can really make a difference and then vote for their favourite, to select our Charity of the Year.
Shortlisted for “Community”
Creating Work-Life Skills for Underprivileged Young Adults
Thomson Reuters running workshops to inspire and motivate displaced young people to build their future vision of themselves.
Shortlisted for “Philanthropy”
CNN And Cartoon Network Building Schools In Africa
Each year 20 staff at Turner Broadcasting, the company behind CNN and Cartoon Network, raise funding to go to Africa where, with local builders, they build a school and get to know the local community.
theme: People & Performance
Shortlisted for “Recruitment/Talent/Leadership”
Internal & External Talent Management & Succession Planning
By sourcing candidates via LinkedIn we have saved money, and successfully hired external talent into critical roles, and provided an excellent hiring experience for candidates on joining the bank.
Shortlisted for “Harnessing Technology…”
The What, How And Why Of Performance Planning
We created realistic characters facing recognisable challenges and developed a suite of story-led interactive videos covering the what, the how and the why of performance planning.
Shortlisted for “Coaching/Development”
British Gas Premier Energy Podium Programme
To support a culture shift a programme for business and team managers was developed to enable the leadership team to shift the mindset of their teams to think like customers.
Shortlisted for “Coaching/Development”
Transforming Uncertain Futures Into Inspiring Opportunities
Timothy Campbell, winner of “The Apprentice”, is empowering people facing an uncertain future as a result of redundancy with a route to finance to help them build a business. See here.
Shortlisted for “Harnessing Technology…”
Technology For High Impact Blended Training
A blended learning solution (e-learning, social-media, workshop) using agile methodologies to provide the capability required to support a business critical change in project delivery.
Shortlisted for “Recruitment/Talent/Leadership”
Enabling New Leaders To Perform On The Leadership Stage
To help new VPs better prepare for the unexpected, one of the world’s largest management consulting companies Capgemini has devised an induction that is high on theatre, visual messaging and opera, low on PowerPoint and facilitation.
Shortlisted for “Recruitment/Talent/Leadership”
Channel 4′s entry-level talent programme
4Talent Days across the UK are packed with creative workshops lead by industry professionals on digital film-making, creative writing, presenting, journalism, puppetry, stand-up comedy…
Shortlisted for “Harnessing Technology…”
Bringing Learning Online for the Advertising Industry
A fresh approach to online learning, using social learning to bring variety, to enable people to go individually or with others and explore different interests, and offering opportunities to reflect.
Shortlisted for “Coaching/Development”
South East Coaching & Mentoring Network Empowering Parents
Disabled childrens’ parents being trained as coaches, so they can themselves defend their rights and the rights of their children, and engage as equals with professionals.
Shortlisted for “Harnessing Technology…”
Social Learning, Risk and Insurance
An industry-leading social learning community, enabling colleagues to tap into expertise and knowledge of their peers, contribute their own knowledge, build a personal brand and provide superior support to clients.
Shortlisted for “Harnessing Technology…”
How to Utilise Technology to Engage your Employees
‘ourlounge.co.uk’, originally built to host learning programmes, has evolved to become the primary way we communicate and engage with our workforce in terms of business messages, competitions and company news.
Shortlisted for “Coaching/Development”
Ensuring Success Through Inspiring Your People
Our training is conducted in a team setting with regular group exercises and participation to identify how our team approach challenges, solve problems and interact with each other.
Shortlisted for “Coaching/Development”
Employee Engagement through Development
Rackspace helps staff focus on what they do well, to build and develop their strengths and learn how to use them most effectively, rather than ‘correcting’ their weaknesses.
Shortlisted for “Recruitment/Talent/Leadership”
Creating a big GREAT company, not a great BIG one
Despite fast growth we strive to retain our unique and special culture. We want Rackspace to be a big GREAT company, not a great BIG company.
Shortlisted for “Coaching/Development”
Involving Your Audience With All Their Senses.
Experiential learning which pulls on as many of the senses as possible, to leave lasting memories and enable our agents network to fully understand what they are selling.
Shortlisted for “Harnessing Technology…”
Technology For High Impact Blended Training
Virtual environments give our travel agents an experience of our product, which would otherwise be very difficult, were we to try and get 20,000 travel agents onboard our cruise ships.