8 | Aycliffe Today Business
LET’S GET
ENGAGED?
What would YOUR staff say if you asked
them “What is it like to work here?”
Knowing how engaged your employees
are with your business is vital to
continued success.
An “engaged” employee is fully involved
in, enthusiastic about and adds value to
their work. However one disengaged
employee can undermine all of the
positive efforts of four times as many
engaged people.
Measuring and tracking levels of
engagement means you can tailor your
actions to get the very best of results
for your customers.
Employees with the highest level of
engagement perform on average 20%
better and are 87% less likely to want
to leave, than those who are not.
Actively engaged people are productive
and willing to learn, they will act in a
way that furthers their own interests
and that of the business and they will
have a positive impact on everyone
around them.
Increasing the number of actively
engaged people within your company
can improve productivity, reduce
absenteeism and result in a more
positive and effective working
environment.
People Gauge™ is a simple but
sophisticated online solution that
accurately measures what your people
think and feel about working for you. It
has been designed specifically to help
you identify where exactly you should
focus your attention to get the very best
from your people and gain significant
and sustained improvements.
The state-of-the-art OneGym
on Aycliffe Business Park
LOW-COST GYM NOW
OPEN FOR BUSINESS!
A state-of-the-art low-cost gym
is now open for business on
Aycliffe Business Park.
OneGym has opened its doors on Durham
Way South after an extensive, four-month
refurbishment programme.
Paul and David Pearson opened OneGym
in Bishop Auckland in 2012, offering users
access to all the latest fitness equipment
without costly add-ons like swimming pools
and saunas that they don’t necessarily want
to use.
And having attracted healthy membership
numbers at their first fitness facility, the
brothers have now opened a second, much
larger OneGym in Aycliffe, while members of
OneGym can use both facilities using their
same ID card.
Eight new jobs have been created at the
new 12,500 sq ft fitness centre, which
has facilities for fitness classes as well as
a gym in which more than £150,000 has
been invested in installing the latest Cybex
exercise equipment.
The low-cost gym business model was
originally established in the US and mainland
Europe, with membership costs kept
significantly below those charged by leisure
facilities in hotels or ‘lifestyle’ gyms.
Having proved that the concept works in the
North-East, the OneGym management team
remains ambitious about extending their
brand presence to further parts of the region
in the next few years.
Managing director Paul Pearson, who has
a longstanding background in the regional
health and fitness industry, said: “We were
always very confident that OneGym would
be a hit in the North-East, and comfortably
surpassing our membership targets for
Bishop Auckland has shown our expectations
were well founded.
“We can keep membership costs down by
cutting out all the added frills that gym users
don’t necessarily want, but end up paying
for anyway elsewhere, while still offering the
top quality equipment and changing facilities
that people expect and tailoring the way we
operate precisely to meet users’ needs.
“We’ve wanted to open in Newton Aycliffe
for a long time and think the demand will
be just as strong as we’ve had previously,
especially from all the businesses that are
right on our doorstep.
”
Dave Pearson added: “We’ve already
attracted the sort of membership numbers
we expected at Aycliffe and we expect them
to pick up gradually as the word about our
facilities gets around.
”
The original launch of OneGym was funded
through an investment from regional fund
management firm NEL Fund Managers via
the Finance For Business North East Growth
Fund that it administers, as well as by further
capital from NatWest Bank and the firm’s
management team.
Sounds like a future marriage made in
heaven!
Zanna Bewick
Director
Elphaba Business Solutions
www.elphaba.co.uk
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