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Do you want your organisation
to survive or to thrive? Look
after your people, and your
people will look after your
product or services - and your
performance will look after
itself.
Now a Tees firm has launched
an employee engagement
system with a difference,
designed to help your staff and
your organisation to Thrive
Help your
company to
By Dave Allan
A
unique new employee engagement
system is creating a buzz among HR
professionals and business owners
across Teesside following its recent launch.
Thrive is the brainchild of best-selling
author and internationally renowned
speaker Paul McGee, also known as The
SUMO Guy. He has joined forces with a
Tees-based MBHR Consultancy to launch
an employee engagement system that
promises to improve business performance
and profitability by up to 20% - and, uniquely,
factors in key HSE assurance standards.
But this is no ordinary employee
engagement system. Unlike others, Thrive
factors in the six HSE stress management
standards of Role, Relationships, Change,
Demands, Support and Control. Therefore,
it has equal focus on employee health
and wellbeing, which when neglected
will undermine an employee’s ability and
motivation to perform.
Thrive will provide the insights to drive
proactive leadership and management
actions and activities (primary interventions)
that improve relationships, better engage
your people, reduce stress and therefore
boost performance, maximise potential and
engage them in success
Evidence that better engaged employees
produce a higher performance is abundant.
• Some years ago Hay Group, in their
publication Engage Employees and Boost
Performance, concluded that engaged
employees generate 43% more revenue
than disengaged ones.
• The Corporate Leadership Council reported
that engaged organisations grew profits
as much as three times faster than their
competitors.
• And highly engaged organisations have
the potential to reduce their staff turnover
Thrive
Thrive duo Paul McGee and Emma Barugh believe
their employee engagement system is unique.
by 87%.
• A study by Watson Wyatt concluded that
highly engaged staff missed 43% fewer
days of work due to illness.
Headquartered at the Wilton Centre, near
Redcar, MBHR Consultancy launched Thrive
after developing an employee engagement
model that was the brainchild of Paul, author
of the best-selling book ‘SUMO – Shut Up,
Move On’.
Emma Barugh, managing director of
MBHR Consultancy, is confident Thrive
can revolutionise employee engagement,
especially for companies with more than 50
staff.
Emma went into partnership with Paul – an
operator she describes as “a plain-speaking
genius” - in April last year. They are now
rolling out a system designed to reduce staff
sickness absence and employee turnover
whilst increasing staff performance and
company profitability.
She is looking to engage with business
owners, HR specialists and operating chiefs
across the North-East to tell them what
Thrive can do for their business.
She said: “It’s a fact that people who are
engaged work better, are more committed to
their organisation and want to do better for
their employer.
“Thrive provides an opportunity to improve
the working environment for your people –
which, in turn, will improve performance and
profitability by up to 20%.
“Studies have shown that by increasing
employee engagement, you can reduce
sickness absence by up to 43%, employee
turnover by up to 87% and increase
performance by up to 20%.
“Thrive is based on leading employee
engagement studies that we’ve turned into
plain English to allow those responsible for
their organisations’ HR to boost performance,
maximise potential and engage to achieve
successful outcomes.”
Thrive allows organisations with more than
a handful of people to see quickly and easily
how those individual relationships combine
at an organisational, directorate, function
and/or team level.
This allows the leadership and
management team to spot trends and
patterns, and respond to these positively but
most importantly proactively to improve the
working relationships and environment.
Thrive will provide the insights to drive
proactive leadership and management
actions and activities – “primary
interventions” – that improve relationships,
reduce stress and better engage your people.
Emma adds: “Whilst the system works
for employers with a minimum of 10 to 30
staff, we’re particularly keen to speak with
those with 50 or more employees, and up to
thousands.”
For more details about Thrive, email
[email protected] or call 0330
333 0356.