Best Employers Eastern Region Programme 2021

Best Employers Eastern Region brings together employers from across the East of England to support the economic growth of the region through increased employee engagement.

From its roots as an employee survey, Best Employers has become a community, supporting leaders to continuously develop their organisation’s culture, engagement levels and workplace environment. It encourages learning and collaboration through inspiring events and supports organisations to develop their employee brand through awards and accreditations.

The programme

• An employee engagement survey bespoke to your organisation.
• Access to rare data to benchmark your culture and values against organisations across the East of England.
• A series of leadership webinars on employee engagement themes including:

1. Engaging and leading hybrid teams
2. Developing resilience within the workplace
3. Fostering a culture of innovation and curiosity
4. Recruiting, onboarding and rewarding your team

• Best Employer accreditations and awards for high performing companies.
• Support for organisations looking to further develop their culture and build a more engaged workforce.

Best Employers Promise

Best Employers Eastern Region is a community for organisations that believe success is achieved through their people.

Taking part will enable you to:

• Develop fresh ideas to develop the culture that enables your people to thrive
• Stimulate growth and innovation
• Share ideas and learn from each other
• Hear from renowned international and regional speakers

Taking part

Once you have signed up to the programme, you will be assigned an account manager from Pure who will support you through the programme. The cost to enter Best Employers Eastern Region 2021 programme is £250 +vat and includes:

• Unlimited number of attendees to the launch event webinar
• Unlimited attendees to the monthly webinars
• Access to the Best Employer Eastern Region survey
• Survey Benchmarking data across the Eastern Region
• Entry to the Best Employer overall awards.

Organisations must employ a minimum of 15 people to enter.

A significantly reduced rate is offered to charities. The programme is run on a non-profit basis and the costs contribute towards speaker costs and the Alex Pearce memorial fund.

The programme of events

Signing up to the programme provides you with entry to the following events:

Thursday 22nd April, 10:00 am - 12:15

Virtual launch event. Our world-class speakers include:

Debra Corey - Award winning Global HR leader and best-selling business author.

Debra is a highly experienced and award-winning HR leader, world-class speaker, three-time author, and was recently named one of the top 101 global employee engagement influencers.

Tamara Lohan - Entrepreneur, CEO, Board Director

Entrepreneur and technology strategist Tamara Lohan is an inspiring, energetic leader with a track record of developing and building businesses. She has spent over 15 years leading technology and e-commerce in the travel industry.

Read more about our speakers here >

Wednesday 19th May, 10:00 – 11:15 am

Webinar: Engaging and leading remote and onsite teams

Speakers include

• Paulo Moscuzza, Partner, OE Cam - The Psychology of leading and engaging hybrid teams
• Catherine Hodds, Director of People and Culture, Saffron Housing - Saffron’s experience transitioning into an agile working model.

Tuesday 25th May, 11:00 - 11:45

Webinar: An interview with Tamara Lohan.

Tuesday 22nd June, 10:00 – 11:15 am

Webinar: Developing workforce resilience

• Ian White, CEO Becketts and Chair of Suffolk Mind
• Ros Stephens, Executive Coach and trainer who is an expert in helping leaders to be daring, compassionate and support their people through change.  

Wednesday 14th July, 10:00 – 11:15 am

Webinar: Fostering an innovative, hungry and progressive culture

• CJ Green, Co-founder and Executive Director, BraveGoose
• Ciaron Dunne, CEO, and Sarah Sutton, Head of People and Development, Genie Ventures

Wednesday 15th September, 10:00 – 11:15 am

Webinar: Recruitment, onboarding and rewarding your team

• Recruitment and onboarding trends, Jodie Woodrow, Business Director

Jodie will share recruitment and onboarding trends and what we believe is here to stay. She will also share how Pure have adapted the recruitment and onboarding for our own people.

• An interview with Duncan Johnson, Group Chairman of Suffolk Holdings

In this interview, we will explore how Suffolk Holdings have evolved their recruitment and onboarding across their different group companies which includes architecture, large scale facilities management and education.

• An interview with Diana Sewell, Talent Acquisition Business Partner for Marshall Aerospace and Defence Group

In this interview, Diana will share how recruitment and onboarding has changed for Marshalls throughout the pandemic and share tips on how to support candidates through the remote process.

AWARDS CONFERENCE

Thursday 30th September

09:00 - 12:15

Winners and accredited organisations announced will be announced at this virtual conference.

Keynote speakers include:

Innovations through lockdown - Andy Wood, CEO Adnams

Andy joins us to talk about the resilience and adaptability within the Adnams culture that enabled it to successfully navigate the pandemic and emerge reinvigorated.

Andy Wood joined Adnams in 1994, he joined the Board in 2000 as Sales and Marketing Director becoming Managing Director in 2006 and Chief Executive in 2010.

He has a DBA from Cranfield University and Honorary doctorates; in Business from Anglia Ruskin University, in Science from Cranfield University and Civil Law from the University of East Anglia. He was also awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours 2013 and between 2014 to 2016 was HRH The Prince of Wales’ Ambassador for Responsible business in the East of England.

In 2010 Andy founded and was Chairman of the New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership. He is Non-Executive Chairman of SGWM a wealth management company operating throughout East Anglia and a Non-Executive Director of The Hotel Folk and Roys (Wroxham) ltd. Andy is a Governor of Norwich School, a Board Member to the VisitEngland Advisory Board and is Chairman of Visit East of England.

Ruthless simplicity - Hamish Taylor , former Brand and Innovation Director at BA, CEO of Eurotunnel and Sainsbury's Bank.

As Head of Brands at BA, CEO of Eurostar and Sainsbury's Bank, Hamish Taylor has delivered significant growth and turnaround triggered by a willingness to challenge industry and organisation norms, and do the right thing for both the business and its people. In his presentation, Hamish will explore a ruthlessly simple approach to balancing employee engagement with innovation and competitive advantage. And he will show us how to make this easy!

Please add these dates to your diary and details will be sent to you before each session.

Eras virtual workshops

Providing you with information on how to set up your survey and ideas on how to analyse and feedback your survey results.

There are a choice of dates for these sessions and a link will be provided to confirm your attendance on these sessions.

• Monday 12th April
• Tuesday 13th April
• Wednesday 14th April
• Tuesday 4th May
• Wednesday 5th May
• Thursday 6th May
• Wednesday 9 June

The Alex Pearce Memorial Fund

Best Employers was born out of a collaboration between Alex Pearce, Managing Director of eras ltd and Lynn Walters, Executive Director of Pure.

Alex very sadly and unexpectedly died in October 2020, and to mark his legacy, we have chosen to raise money in his memory.

50% of the net proceeds raised through our 2021 programme will be donated to Winston Wishes and Nelsons Journey.