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Every year the firm embraces many new initiatives, which
not only support our business objectives, but our staff's personal
aims too.
High on our agenda is our involvement in the local community,
through fundraising and working with local organisations.
firmjam
This was the name given to our first
five-day online discussion forum held in February 2008. The forum
was established to seek out and share ‘best practices’ across the
firm. The firm’s intranet was the gateway to six discussion groups,
each moderated by a senior member of the firm. Topics included
bonus schemes, innovation and corporate social responsibility.
Everyone was invited to participate and to share ideas. At the
end, the firmjam project group – led by partner Alison McClure who
is responsible for the firm’s business transformation programme –
collated the responses and is now co-ordinating projects to
implement the new ideas, giving regular feedback to everyone.
With nearly 300 posts made, the successful firmjam format will
be used in future to find out staff views, along with other tools
such as our biannual employee opinion surveys run by independent
consultants, and our staff magazine, rapport.
five-way charity
challenge
The firm’s charity challenge was a true team venture, with staff
across all of our offices participating to raise funds for our
nominated charities. The challenge covered five legs of a route
linking our five offices, using different modes of transport which
included driving by classic car, cycling two legs of over 150
miles, rowing and walking. The grand finale was ‘the big walk’
along the River Itchen to New Kings Court, giving staff and their
families an opportunity to join in and celebrate afterwards at our
open day. Cheques were presented to our nominated charities:
- Hope and Homes for Children
- Enham
- Rowans Hospice
- The Art Room
As we went to print, over £8,500 had been raised.
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