 eo Learn eoa learning programme to help your business and employees on their eo journeyRepresenting and Developing Employee Voice Gain the skills, insights, and behaviours needed to succeed as an employee voice representative. Explore and learn in an energetic and focused way. All the while, you’ll highlight and share best practice with your peers.
Employee voice is an integral part of developing Great EO. Amplifying the say employees have in your business empowers them to be part of the solution for emerging challenges or opportunities.
Whether you’re new to employee ownership or looking to refresh your approach, you’ll leave feeling inspired to build a culture of empowerment that drives positive change.
What You’ll Learn
- The importance of ‘voice’ in an EO business
- How employee voice reps communicate and engage employee owners
- Tools and techniques to develop and amplify employee voice
- Best practice approaches
- How to plan agendas for employee voice council meetings and communicate outcomes with employee owners
- How to adopt a ‘Plan-Do-Review’ framework to ensure continuous development
- How to overcome the barriers that can exist in representing voice
Who should attend this course
- Representatives who sit on an employee forum, council, or voice group
- Employee owners with employee engagement, employee voice, or employee communications within their remit
- Those with an interest in the use of employee voice in their organisation
Course Director
Helen Moreton
Helen has been an active part of the EO sector for 20+ years in an operational and non-executive capacity. She spent 18 years at John Lewis Partnership in a variety of independent and strategic roles, and owns her own business, Boombox Consulting. As an experienced L&D professional, qualified Master Coach, and an NLP Practitioner, she works with a variety of EO businesses - including as Chair of the Co-owner Councils for Riverford Organic Farmers and Go Ape. She also holds Independent Trustee positions at Lush, Architype, and Espace, as well as serving as Chair of the Trust Boards for Go Ape and Turley. |
 eo Learn eoa learning programme to help your business and employees on their eo journeyCommunicating Your EO Transition to the Team Telling your team the positive story of your move to EO can help ensure everyone understands the benefits of EO and is working towards the same goals. Discover how to craft the message you need to succeed.
Learn how to effectively communicate your transition to your team, the art of positive framing, and how to compose compelling narratives for use both internally and beyond.
Not only does this build a better culture, but also promotes positive engagement across the business.
What You’ll Learn
- How to make strategic comms decisions
- How to focus less on financials and more on all the opportunities of EO
- Help prepare and reassure your teams
- How to position opportunity at the centre of your approach
Who Should Attend This Course?
- Business owners considering, or having recently completed, the transition to EO
- Employee Directors, leadership teams and Employee Trustees
Course Director
Harry Pocknell
Harry has worked in the design industry for 20+ years, constantly learning more about the art of effective communication, and how to help people and businesses communicate with clarity and consistency so that they can be fully heard and understood. He also serves as a council member for the eoa. Since his business, Salad Creative, became 100% employee owned in 2021, his journey into the world of EO has been profound. |
 eo Learn eoa learning programme to help your business and employees on their eo journeyHow to be an Effective Employee Trustee / Director Excel in your role as an employee trustee or director with this comprehensive and highly practical course. Gain a solid understanding of the requirements of your governance role, as well as demonstrating how you can maximise your impact.
Case studies and real-world examples underpin all course content, ensuring everything you learn can be effectively applied to your own role.
Though virtual, the course is built around engagement. During your five days together, you’ll share experiences with attendees, building your network of valuable EO peers to assist your employee ownership journey.
What You’ll Learn
- How to maximise performance as an employee trustee or director
- The duties, obligations, and legal responsibilities of an employee trustee or director
- How to interpret financial trust and operational reports
- How to nurture an effective employee ownership culture
- Different forms of employee ownership structures
Who should attend this course
- Newly appointed or existing Employee Trustees of Employee Ownership Trusts or Employee Benefit Trusts
- Newly appointed or existing Employee Directors on the boards of EO businesses
Course Director
Ken Lindsay
A chartered accountant and experienced non-executive director, Ken has 25+ years' experience of sitting on the boards of various companies. Following his retirement from full-time work as a partner in a leading PE investment firm, Ken continues to act in a senior role of several companies including as Chair for award-winning EO businesses like 1:1 diet by Cambridge Weight Plan, among others. He also offers his impressive insights and experience, teaching exclusively for the eoa. |
 eo Learn eoa learning programme to help your business and employees on their eo journeyHow to Create an Engaged EO Business With this short, practical course, you’ll start to develop the tools needed to embed EO deeply in your business and help employee owners understand the business and their place within its future strategy.
Discover how to foster an ownership mindset by learning how to communicate what a meaningful stake and say truly means in an EO business.
Create compelling comms that help embed EO in your business and engage your team to act as employee owners.
Learn how to align your teams around a culture of ownership and celebrate that culture through your internal communications.
What You’ll Learn
- How to align your team around vision, mission, and values to drive engagement forward
- Create a culture of ownership
- Define what a meaningful stake and say means to your organisation
- Engage your employee owners’ discussions around EO and business strategy
Who Should Attend This Course?
- Businesses that are employee owned
- Employee Trustees / directors, employee representatives
- Employee owners with employee engagement or employee comms within their role remit
Course Director
Harry Pocknell
Harry has worked in the design industry for 20+ years, constantly learning more about the art of effective communication, and how to help people and businesses communicate with clarity and consistency so that they can be fully heard and understood. He also serves as a council member for the eoa. Since his business, Salad Creative, became 100% employee owned in 2021, his journey into the world of EO has been profound. |
 eo Learn eoa learning programme to help your business and employees on their eo journeyBecoming an Independent Trustee Develop best practice Independent Trustee skills and discover how to maximise the ‘EO Effect’ in EO businesses. You’ll also come away with a better understanding of your role in helping the business realise the full benefits of EO.
Confirm the EOT fundamentals, challenge your understanding, and align your specific expertise and knowledge to the requirements and expectations of this unique role. Build your network with fellow attendees by sharing your insights and gain key contacts to draw from in the months and years to come.
What You’ll Learn
- Awareness of the key knowledge, skills, and behaviours expected of an Independent Trustee
- Best practice approach to developing effective EOT governance practices
- How to recognise the maturity of an EO business and how the role of the Trust and the Trustee changes as a result
- How Trustees work with business leaders to support effective decision-making
Who should attend this course
- Those wishing to expand their best practice knowledge and insight into the EOT Independent Trustee role
- Those new to the EOT Independent Trustee role
- Non-executive directors looking to broaden their portfolio
- Individuals being sponsored by their employers
Course Directors
Sue Lawrence and Campbell McDonald
Sue Lawrence is an Independent Trustee on a number of Employee Ownership Trusts and specialises in working with companies to implement an effective governance structure that meets their needs.
Campbell McDonald has worked in the EO sector for 14 years and is one the UK's most experienced employee ownership experts and practitioners. He encourages sharing meaningful ownership and participation with everyone in your organisation can impact people and performance like nothing else. |
eo Learn eoa learning programme to help your business and employees on their eo journeyRepresenting and Developing Employee Voice Gain the skills, insights, and behaviours needed to succeed as an employee voice representative. Explore and learn in an energetic and focused way. All the while, you’ll highlight and share best practice with your peers.
Employee voice is an integral part of developing Great EO. Amplifying the say employees have in your business empowers them to be part of the solution for emerging challenges or opportunities. Whether you’re new to employee ownership or looking to refresh your approach, you’ll leave feeling inspired to build a culture of empowerment that drives positive change.
What You’ll Learn
- The importance of ‘voice’ in an EO business
- How employee voice reps communicate and engage employee owners
- Tools and techniques to develop and amplify employee voice
- Best practice approaches
- How to plan agendas for employee voice council meetings and communicate outcomes with employee owners
- How to adopt a ‘Plan-Do-Review’ framework to ensure continuous development
- How to overcome the barriers that can exist in representing voice
Who should attend this course
- Representatives who sit on an employee forum, council, or voice group
- Employee owners with employee engagement, employee voice, or employee communications within their remit
- Those with an interest in the use of employee voice in their organisation
Course Director
Helen Moreton
Helen has been an active part of the EO sector for 20+ years in an operational and non-executive capacity. She spent 18 years at John Lewis Partnership in a variety of independent and strategic roles, and owns her own business, Boombox Consulting. As an experienced L&D professional, qualified Master Coach, and an NLP Practitioner, she works with a variety of EO businesses - including as Chair of the Co-owner Councils for Riverford Organic Farmers and Go Ape. She also holds Independent Trustee positions at Lush, Architype, and Espace, as well as serving as Chair of the Trust Boards for Go Ape and Turley. |
eo Learn eoa learning programme to help your business and employees on their eo journeyHow to be an Effective Employee Trustee / Director Excel in your role as an employee trustee or director with this comprehensive and highly practical course. Gain a solid understanding of the requirements of your governance role, as well as demonstrating how you can maximise your impact.
Case studies and real-world examples underpin all course content, ensuring everything you learn can be effectively applied to your own role.
Though virtual, the course is built around engagement. During your five days together, you’ll share experiences with attendees, building your network of valuable EO peers to assist your employee ownership journey.
What You’ll Learn
- How to maximise performance as an employee trustee or director
- The duties, obligations, and legal responsibilities of an employee trustee or director
- How to interpret financial trust and operational reports
- How to nurture an effective employee ownership culture
- Different forms of employee ownership structures
Who should attend this course
- Newly appointed or existing Employee Trustees of Employee Ownership Trusts or Employee Benefit Trusts
- Newly appointed or existing Employee Directors on the boards of EO businesses
Course Director
Ken Lindsay
A chartered accountant and experienced non-executive director, Ken has 25+ years' experience of sitting on the boards of various companies. Following his retirement from full-time work as a partner in a leading PE investment firm, Ken continues to act in a senior role of several companies including as Chair for award-winning EO businesses like 1:1 diet by Cambridge Weight Plan, among others. He also offers his impressive insights and experience, teaching exclusively for the eoa. |
eo Learn eoa learning programme to help your business and employees on their eo journeyRepresenting and Developing Employee Voice Gain the skills, insights, and behaviours needed to succeed as an employee voice representative. Explore and learn in an energetic and focused way. All the while, you’ll highlight and share best practice with your peers.
Employee voice is an integral part of developing Great EO. Amplifying the say employees have in your business empowers them to be part of the solution for emerging challenges or opportunities.
Whether you’re new to employee ownership or looking to refresh your approach, you’ll leave feeling inspired to build a culture of empowerment that drives positive change.
What You’ll Learn
- The importance of ‘voice’ in an EO business
- How employee voice reps communicate and engage employee owners
- Tools and techniques to develop and amplify employee voice
- Best practice approaches
- How to plan agendas for employee voice council meetings and communicate outcomes with employee owners
- How to adopt a ‘Plan-Do-Review’ framework to ensure continuous development
- How to overcome the barriers that can exist in representing voice
Who should attend this course
- Representatives who sit on an employee forum, council, or voice group
- Employee owners with employee engagement, employee voice, or employee communications within their remit
- Those with an interest in the use of employee voice in their organisation
Course Director
Helen Moreton
Helen has been an active part of the EO sector for 20+ years in an operational and non-executive capacity. She spent 18 years at John Lewis Partnership in a variety of independent and strategic roles, and owns her own business, Boombox Consulting. As an experienced L&D professional, qualified Master Coach, and an NLP Practitioner, she works with a variety of EO businesses - including as Chair of the Co-owner Councils for Riverford Organic Farmers and Go Ape. She also holds Independent Trustee positions at Lush, Architype, and Espace, as well as serving as Chair of the Trust Boards for Go Ape and Turley. |
eo Learn eoa learning programme to help your business and employees on their eo journeyHow to be an Effective Employee Trustee / Director Excel in your role as an employee trustee or director with this comprehensive and highly practical course. Gain a solid understanding of the requirements of your governance role, as well as demonstrating how you can maximise your impact.
Case studies and real-world examples underpin all course content, ensuring everything you learn can be effectively applied to your own role.
Though virtual, the course is built around engagement. During your five days together, you’ll share experiences with attendees, building your network of valuable EO peers to assist your employee ownership journey.
What You’ll Learn
- How to maximise performance as an employee trustee or director
- The duties, obligations, and legal responsibilities of an employee trustee or director
- How to interpret financial trust and operational reports
- How to nurture an effective employee ownership culture
- Different forms of employee ownership structures
Who should attend this course
- Newly appointed or existing Employee Trustees of Employee Ownership Trusts or Employee Benefit Trusts
- Newly appointed or existing Employee Directors on the boards of EO businesses
Course Director
Ken Lindsay
A chartered accountant and experienced non-executive director, Ken has 25+ years' experience of sitting on the boards of various companies. Following his retirement from full-time work as a partner in a leading PE investment firm, Ken continues to act in a senior role of several companies including as Chair for award-winning EO businesses like 1:1 diet by Cambridge Weight Plan, among others. He also offers his impressive insights and experience, teaching exclusively for the eoa. |