Day 1 Seminars and Workshops
Breakout session one 13.15 – 14.15
Choose the session which best fits your stage in the employee ownership business cycle:
– exploring employee ownership
– less than two years employee owned
– Two to five years employee owned
– Established employee owned businesses
1. Why become employee owned?
(for those exploring EO)
Case Study Seminar – Warts ‘n’ all experience of why Mindworks Marketing became employee owned and their learnings
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2. Financing the transition to employee ownership
(for those exploring EO)
Case Study Seminar – How equity finance can develop your business, presented by Capital for Colleagues and employee owned business Carpenter Oak
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3. We are employee owned! Now what?
(for those employee owned less than 2 years)
Case Study Seminar – What should the business be doing now to make employee ownership real? Presented by Castlefield.
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4. How to establish good governance in your employee owned business
(for those Employee owned 2+ years)
Workshop – Managing relationships between all stakeholders and who sits on the Main Board, Trust Board, Employee Council facilitated by Baxendale
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5. Making finances fun; how to communicate the business performance
(for those Employee owned 2+ years)
Case Study Seminar – How to share business data to help develop employee understanding and buy-in presented by Useful Simple Trust
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6 Management succession in an employee owned business
(for those Employee owned 5+ years)
Case Study Seminar – What happens when the next generation of leaders are ready to leave with Highland Home Carers
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7 EO Lens – Being commercial as a mutual
(for those Employee owned 2+ years)
Workshop – How to bring commerciality into your mutual organisation facilitated by Smile Together Dental
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Strategy Workshops 14.45-17.00
Forming a Communications and Engagement Strategy
(for businesses that are less than two years employee owned)
Workshop – The dos and don’ts of engaging with the whole workforce, where the challenges might be and who they might come from – facilitated by Telos Partners
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How to develop and implement the first Business Plan as an employee owned business
(for those 2+ years employee ownership)
Workshop – How to collaborate with employees in the business to build a strategy for all, by all – facilitated by Alterity
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Best in Class – 2017 winners presentations 14.45 – 15.45
Hear from the 2017 UK Employee Ownership Award winners as they share their EO story that resulted in their success:
Employee Owned Business of the Year – Community Dental Services
Employee Owner of the Year – Lucy Farrow, Traverse (formerly OPM Group)
Employee Owned Innovation of the Year – Here
Employee Owned Rising Star of the Year – Rowlinson Knitwear
Employee Owned Positive Impact of the Year – Rochdale Boroughwide Housing
