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Thursday, Feb 12, 2009

Better Companies Webinar #1

Better Companies Webinar #1

Lindsay Blaxland – Program Coordinator Heather Claridge – Organization Development Consultant

Welcome

• Thanks!• First of five Webinars in MindField’s Better

Companies Series• Designed to help you really make your company the

BEST COMPANY to work for in BC!

Heather Claridge Introduction

• Understands what makes organizations tick• Principal – Claridge Consulting Partners • 20 years experience in local market• Organizational Development Consultant & HR

Executive• Expert on talent management strategies such as

employee engagement

Partnership

• MFG partnered with BC Business Magazine to make you a better company

• Based in Vancouver, BC – founded 2005• MindField Group is a Recruitment Process

Outsourcing (RPO) organization• We have a North American wide client-base and

recruiting capabilities• Our clients are in a variety of industries: Retail,

Technology, Construction & Health Services to name a few…

What you’ll learn today…

• The Program– Value – What it all means– Why now?– Four key areas of focus

• The Process• The Prize

– Survey Results• Program Logistics• Q & A• Are you ready?

Value

So much more than a marketing exercise…1. It’s free.2. It’s easy.3. It solicits opinions from your team and makes them

feel engaged!

It’s doing something with the survey results that matters….

What it all means

• Gain culture beat quickly• Invaluable employee perspectives• How you stack up against the competition• Recognition from BC Business Magazine as a top

company to work for

Why Now?

• Now is a better time than any given current market conditions– Put team’s fears & uncertainties to rest

• Employee mentality: Stay & Quit vs. Layoff• Limited time and resources – need to know where to

focus efforts specifically now more than ever

…did we mention it’s free and easy!

Survey Design - Why 4 Key Areas?

Organization Culture

Talent Systems

Employee Engagement

Leadership Dynamics

Talent Systems

• Integrated Human Resources processes, practices and tools.

• Align recruitment, retention and development of an organization’s talent with current and future business requirements.

Employee Engagement

• Measures the degree to which employees commit to the organization at both a rational and emotional level.

• Engagement levels are directly related to business performance.

Leadership Dynamics

• The behaviours (conscious and unconscious, productive and unproductive) of the leadership group.

• The nature of the relationships within the leadership of the organization.

Leadership Dynamics

Organization Culture

• The “personality” of an organization• The set of beliefs, values and behaviour patterns

which characterize an organization. • Hard to replicate – a competitive advantage.

Join us on our next 4 webinars to better understand each of these key areas of the

survey!

How can we participate?

• Company size – 35 employees minimum• Two remaining Intake periods

– Spring: March 30 – May 15– Summer: April 6 – July 10

• Participation Rates

– 35-100 65%

– 101-500 50%

– 501-3000 40%

– 3000 + 35%

The Process

• The Best Companies in BC is an interactive program...• The steps include:

1. Completing a Readiness Assessment2. Registering & selecting an Intake Period3. Completing the Employer/Company Survey4. Completing the Employee Survey5. Reviewing your Complimentary Reports6. Purchasing Better Company Reports7. Reviewing the Final Results8. Enjoy a glass of wine at the Gala!

Registration & Completing a Survey

• Complete online registration – www.bestcompanies.ca

• Select Intake Period– Program Coordinator to Follow Up

• Complete Company Survey (3 weeks)• Complete Employee Surveys (6 weeks)

The Company Survey

• Top down perspective of how the organization is doing

• Focuses on opinions of their Management Team and company as a whole– One individual – CEO/President

• 52 close-ended questions• 1 open-ended question• Takes 20-25 minutes each to complete

The Employee Survey

• Distribute survey internally to all BC based employees (part & full time)

• Web based surveys or coordinate paper based• 52 close-ended questions

– Scale: Strongly Agree to Strongly Disagree• 3 open-ended questions• Takes 15-25 minutes each to complete• Remember…participation rates will help your overall

score!

Final Weigh In

Employee Survey 70%

Company Survey 20%

Participation Rate 10%

Complimentary Reports

• Rating Report– Average of all employees responses for each of four key

areas:• Employee Engagement• Organizational Culture• Leadership Dynamics• Talent Systems

– Top 10 & Bottom 10 questions

Complimentary Reports

• Ranking Report– Takes your average employee responses (from 4 areas) and

shows how your responses ranked against the competitors in your category

Results...it’s what you do with them that counts

Better Company Report Package:• How your employees answered every question based

on:– Age– Location – Length of service– Functional area– Level in organization

• Verbatim Comments• $2500.00

INSERT SCREEN SHOT OF BETTER COMPANY REPORT

Results - Interpretation Report Package

• Make sense of your results!• Professional analysis of Better Company Report

package by Claridge Consulting Partners• Provides a qualitative analysis of the survey results.• Report includes:

– Key findings – overall company– Key findings – by each demographic – Verbatim comment analysis – key themes– Key considerations for action

• $3900.00

The Prize

• BC Business Magazine recognizes Top 10 in each category– Under 100 Employees– Over 100 Employees

• December issue– Editorial & picture

• Branded as a BETTER EMPLOYER• Bragging rights

Are you ready?

http://www.bestcompanies.ca/survey.html

Q & A / Discussions

www.rethinkrecruiting.com

info@mindfieldgroup.com

Thank you for attending Better Companies Webinar #1

February 12th, 2009