Staff Engagement Strategy
Key benefit: building trust, and collaboration, within and between small teams
Historically, an important part of the business has been working directly with CEOs of small biotechnology companies to develop staff engagement strategies.
This work draws particularly strongly on the combination of bioscience-sector knowledge, coaching experience, organisational insight and an understanding of the challenges facing growing biotechnology companies.
It can include working with a CEO to understand staff engagement issues, identify priorities and develop a practical approach for improving engagement, communication and organisational effectiveness.
This work is priced on a case-by-case basis.
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The approach might include meeting the team individually and designing a workshop to pull together the strengths of the team members. Psychometric tools are utilised to explore key differences in personality which is the foundation for effective collaboration and an innovative culture. The workshop also supports the development of a people strategy.
Clients have included companies such as:
Cobra Biologics
Newcells Biologics
Iksuda
Biopharm Services
Achievements:
Enhanced early career staff engagement
Improved team dynamics based on an understanding of colleagues’ preferred way of working
Stronger collaborative capacity in the team
Testimonials
“Thank you again for your time earlier this week. I thought the format of having a small group of peers at different stages and different size company was a good mix, I enjoyed it!”
“I just wanted to reach out to say that you received some great feedback from the active LeaP cohorts. The people in the meeting shared that they really appreciated your sessions and got a lot out of them, and the people that followed up with you really valued your support.”
“The useful part of this workshop was that is matched up personality traits with how they fit into the work environment. It was really interesting to see how some of my particular personality traits would work in certain industry-based roles. I have never really thought too much about personality in the workplace. However, the workshop made me realise that finding a job that matches up with your personality will hopefully lead to having much more fulfilment at work.”
“It opened up my eyes to my strengths and weaknesses and made me realise the importance of recognising both your own and other people’s. It also made me consider what career paths are better suited to my personality (particularly session 2 in smaller groups helped with this).”
“I thought it went well. The session got people talking about their preferred work “environment” which we hadn’t really explored before. The points about reinforcing clarity of objectives (both company level and individual) as well as the need for more day-to-day individual recognition stood out to me as areas where we need to make a more conscious effort as a leadership team.”