Break Out Three Seminars & Workshops

Choose a session that helps you explore employee ownership or bring EO to life in your business. To aid you in planning your itinerary and get the best out of your conference learning experience we’ve created some colour-coded categories.

Leadership and Governance Culture and Engagement EO Excellence Exploring EO  Finance EO Conversation

Choose one session

  • Time: 13:15 - 14:15
  • Session Type: Case Study Seminar
  • Theme: EO Excellence

Best in Class: Employee Ownership Culture Award

The first ever Employee Ownership Culture Award winner was a business with a clearly defined spirit and unique DNA. Hear from world-leading manufacturer Gripple on why they were named the 2018 winners.

  • Why attend: If your role enables you to influence the culture of the business.
  • Time: 13:15 - 14:15
  • Session Type: Workshop
  • Theme: Culture and Engagement

How to establish effective two-way communication in the business

Having meaningful conversations, listening and responding to feedback at all levels but especially between leaders and the new employee owners.

  • Why attend: If you are a leader in business because you can be the driver or the barrier of effective communication.
  • Time: 13:15 - 14:15
  • Session Type: Case study seminar
  • Theme: Exploring EO

As an employee owner, what's in it for me?

What does it mean to be an employee owner? Understand more about the opportunities and the responsibilities you have now that you are owners.

  • Why attend: If you are an employee owner and wanting to make the most of the opportunity this offers.
  • Time: 13:15 - 14:15
  • Session Type: Workshop
  • Theme: Leadership and Governance

How to establish good governance in your employee owned business

Take part in a workshop led by Fieldfisher on managing relationships between all stakeholders including who can sit on the Main Board, Trust Board, Employee Council.

  • Why attend: For all employees of any role in the business because understanding good governance is critical.
  • Time: 13:15 - 14:15
  • Session Type: Case Study Seminar
  • Theme: Culture and Engagement

Money can't buy you love; ways of engaging employees without using a financial incentive

Not all businesses turn a profit every year. Learn how you can make employees feel like owners without relying on a profit share / financial incentive.

  • Why attend: If planning your transition to employee ownership or work in an existing employee owned business.
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  • Time: 13:15 - 14:15
  • Session Type: Case Study seminar
  • Theme: Leadership and Governance

Forming an effective Trustee Board and how it should act

Learn who should sit on the Trustee Board and how you can make it an effective part of your own employee owned business.

  • Why attend: If you are in a senior management position within an employee owned business.
  • Time: 13:15 - 14:15
  • Session Type: Presentation
  • Theme: EO Excellence

Environmental Sustainability

An inconvenient truth: what your business could be doing, delivered by employee owned environment sustainability business Verco.

  • Why attend: If you are wanting your business to consider its environmental impact.
  • Time: 13:15 - 14:15
  • Session Type: Case Study Seminar
  • Theme: EO Excellence

Tackling the tough times as an employee owned business

Hear from Scottish based manufacturing firm Scott & Fyfe as they share how they tackled tough times in their business.

  • Why attend: If you are looking at ideas to plan for possible challenging times ahead.