GFB Case Studies

Partnerships

The perfect Partnership: Growing Capability in Ghana

Capability Trust is a people and learning organisation, based in Ghana, which specialises in helping businesses create great workplaces and recruit and develop skilled and engaged talent. Through our Partner programme, Getfeedback have been supporting Capability Trust with a range of people measurement tools and services to support their client projects and help them to grow their already successful business.

consultancy

Spratley & Partners: developing our leadership Capability

Spratley & Partners is an approachable team of architects with a reputation for maximising potential: of people, design, planning and return on investment. As the practice has grown, so has the need for strong people leadership.

psychometrics

Using MyStrengths to Assess strengths and possible gaps

Getfeedback were asked to partner with a growing consultancy to help them to assess the current strengths of their team and how these strengths could be best utilised to support their wider business development plans. We were also asked to look at where there may be any potential gaps in strengths and current behaviours, and how they could be developed moving forwards.

Recruitment

Recruiting the best modern minds in law

With over 2000 graduate application across 12 programmes, our client was facing just such a challenge, with a need to streamline their graduate recruitment process.

360 degree feedback

Growing Leadership team performance with 360 degree feedback surveys

Missguided has grown dramatically over the last few years and as the company expands so the leadership demand has increased. The Leadership Team wanted a solution that would have a direct impact and slotted in easily to their very busy schedules.

Recruitment

Accelerating development at B&Q

Supporting B&Q's first high potential development programme with bespoke 360 development

Recruitment

Recruiting the best minds in economics

Getfeedback support Oxera, one Europe's leading independent economics consultancies to recruit the best economics graduates.

Recruitment

Building the leadership capability at sure international

Getfeedback have been working with Sure International, based in the Channel Islands, for over 5 years, helping them to understand their leadership capability through behavioural profiling and 360 feedback.

employee engagement

creating one berendsen

Following a large amount of change, the Berendsen senior team decided the time was right to find out how well change had been implemented and how people across the organisation were feeling. Getfeedback were called in to help deliver an employee engagement initiative to cover the whole organisation.

360 degree feedback

CIPD develops their leaders using GFB's 360 degree feedback surveys

CIPD began looking at a 360 tool to develop both individual and organisation capability to enable their people to deliver the company's ambition. Getfeedback worked with CIPD to help their senior managers recognise their strengths and weaknesses as leaders.

Consultancy

Developing a sales academy to become a market leader

Getfeedback consult in people assessment and development, working in partnership with clients to provide an end to end solution to support the process of organisational change. In 2005 our client approached Getfeedback to assist in designing and delivering a talent programme for their top performing sales people.

Recruitment

ESAB implements a new talent management programme

To deliver their very ambitious plans for future growth, ESAB needed to introduce an new approach to talent management. So as to formally identify their talent ESAB approached Getfeedback to recommend and run a set of psychometric tests. ESAB tested and provided feedback to around 300 of their 8,000 employees worldwide.

Psychometrics

Applying the hogan test in extreme conditions

The Rivers of Ice expedition was the first attempt at an unsupported crossing of the Southern Patagonian Ice Cap by a team of two adventurers. Find out how Getfeedback helped them prepare using the Hogan Personality Inventory and Development Survey tests as part of their mental preparation.

Recruitment

Costain leads the way in driving up quality of delivery through talent management

Resourcing high performance Project Managers represents a significant talent management challenge for organisations such as Costain that seek to deliver excellence. Finding such talent outside of the industry is tough and Costain decided to look within, to grow their own talent, designing and delivering their own award winning project management academy.

Employee engagement

Royal Caribbean Cruises assess the bigger picture

Royal Caribbean uses its online engagement survey annually to both check on the understanding of, and commitment to, the broad corporate objectives as well as informing the priority setting for support and development. It has become a valued - and embedded - part of their talent planning process.

Consultancy

Understanding what 'good' looks like at Yell

Yell set out to reduce attrition rate in the first year post-hire and investigated the differences between high performers and those identified as poorer performers. Using a range of assessments they were able to profile what 'success' looked like and then integrated these assessments into the selection process.

consultancy

Costain: building project management for the future

The construction industry faces a real talent challenge. Whilst migrant workers may be able to contribute to filling the general skills gap, the project management skill set is unlikely to come from this source. Adopting an Academy approach and designing a Project Management Academy, Costain have ensured that they are able to both define excellence in this area and plan for the learning and change that needs to happen.

recruitment

Recruiting people that will change the face of an industry

"We knew we needed a different approach," said Janine Hayter, head of resourcing and development for Terminal 5. "Same old, same old wasn't good enough. We needed people who were willing to do things differently and go the extra mile to get the job done."

consultancy

Creating a Core Skills Programme at Alfred McAlpine

Alfred McAlpine invited Getfeedback to create a 'core skills' programme that would equip employees with the skills needed to live the values across each development area.

employee engagement

RWE npower links employee engagement to customer retention

When the retail part of the business set itself the goal to turn customers into fans, understanding the relationship between employee engagement and customer satisfaction became a top priority.

consultancy

Xerox creates a two-way communication with its workforce

When the Information and Consultation Directive came into existence, Xerox, the global leader in document management, recognised the opportunity it created enhance two-way communication with its workforce.

employee engagement

3 engages its people to transform itself and the telecommunications industry

When you are a new entrant in a highly competitive mobile market leading one of the biggest technology advances for a decade, one thing is for certain, your workforce will see unprecedented change.

recruitment

Energis attracts and retains a high-performing workforce

Getfeedback's role was to translate senior management's view of the behaviours and attitudes that would be needed, into a concise and measurable format that could be used to underpin rigorous selection and development.

consultancy

UGS takes a new approach to leadership

Instead of appointing one of the big consultancies, UGS turned to Getfeedback, a UK talent management consultancy with specialist expertise in leadership development

consultancy

Developing leaders at Kleinwort Benson

Kleinwort Benson required a common language and objective processes to get the right people in the right jobs in the leadership team.

consultancy

Enterprise plc invest in managers to steer through a period of growth

Having undergone a period of rapid growth through strategic M&A to obtain specific skill sets and enter new markets, Enterprise plc was looking to develop a standard across the business to provide consistency in managerial level behaviours.

consultancy

Culture of innovation required greater structure for new growth at Articon Integralis

Europe's leading IT security company, Articon Integralis had grown rapidly since the merger of two independent businesses. But as industry competition increased and profits shrank, the company began to look at ongoing obstacles to success.

360 Degree Feedback

Automating performance management helps Vauxhall transform company culture

With a new CEO behind the wheel, Vauxhall wanted its employees to embrace revamped cultural priorities and turn those into demonstrable results.

consultancy

Management enhancements at Royal Institution designed with members and public in mind

Working closely with RICS learning and development consultant Albert Tonks, Getfeedback designed new performance management systems to help employees perform at the top of their game.

psychometrics

Using assessment to raise the standard of recruitment consulting

"It has become relatively easy to find candidates for clients - but the real challenge is identifying the candidates that can not only perform but excel in the role and so we've introduced a number of Getfeedback's questionnaires and tests and use their online system to manage this," says Charlie Jaggard of LinkTalent.

Employee engagement

Bayer finds that the 'drip-feed' process gets survey results to the right audience at the right time

Bayer worked closely with Getfeedback to develop a long-term vision to define how employee and customer measurement programmes would be linked.

employee engagement

Understanding employee satisfaction is key to one organisation's cultural renaissance

Working with the senior management, Getfeedback developed a survey designed to truly get a feel for the organisation's culture - which included regional differences in employee behaviours, as well as perceptions versus realities.

Employee engagement

Nissan shifts into high gear with sophisticated organisational development tools

Nissan looked to develop an innovative approach to the employee survey and development process. In reflection of the three year corporate plan, costs needed to be kept to a minimum and results needed to be achieved as quickly as possible.

Consultancy

Developing employee core skills helps Mowlem build a strong foundation for growth

Mowlem wanted design a new core skills training programme to ensure their staff were equipped with the skills to operate efficiently and grow the business.

recruitment

Technology turnaround aided by talent assessment and leadership

Getfeedback formed a strategic partnership with a leading technology organisation to help leverage existing talent and focus on high levels of customer satisfaction.

360 DEGREE FEEDBACK

Managing employee performance at ION Trading

High tech company ION Trading found itself in this situation, doubling in size every year, while expanding internationally. With 80 staff, the organisation was at the point where it was time to develop more effective, and more formal, human resource practices.

recruitment

Assessment Centre ensures internal selection process is fair and transparent

When the role of Regional Sales Manager for the North within BBraun became available, the company which has a strong culture supportive of internal personal development and recruiting from within, hoped to find the ideal candidate internally.

recruitment

Finding what good looks like in volume recruitment

Profiling and assessing what good looks like to aid objective and accurate volume recruitment

GFB Case Studies

Partnerships

The perfect Partnership: Growing Capability in Ghana

Read more about partnership with Capabilities Trust

consultancy

Spratley & Partners: developing our leadership Capability

Read more about developing leadership at Spratley & Partners

psychometrics

Using MyStrengths to Assess strengths and possible gaps

Read more about using MyStrengths to assess skills gaps in teams

Recruitment

Recruiting the best modern minds in law

Read more about volume recruitment at one of the top 10 global law firms

360 degree feedback

Growing Leadership team performance with 360 degree feedback surveys

Read more about developing leaders with 360 degree feedback at Missguided

Recruitment

Accelerating development at B&Q

Read more about developing leadership at B&Q

Recruitment

Recruiting the best minds in economics

Read more about graduate recruitment at Oxera

Recruitment

Building the leadership capability at sure international

Read more about developing leadership at Sure International

employee engagement

creating one berendsen

Read more about employee engagement at Berendsen

360 degree feedback

CIPD develops their leaders using GFB's 360 degree feedback surveys

Read more about developing leaders with 360 degree feedback at CIPD

Consultancy

Developing a sales academy to become a market leader

Read more about organisational change projects with our clients

Recruitment

ESAB implements a new talent management programme

Read more about developing the talent management programmes with ESAB

Psychometrics

Applying the hogan test in extreme conditions

Read more about The Rivers of Ice expedition using the HDS psychometrics

Recruitment

Costain leads the way in driving up quality of delivery through talent management

Read more about talent management programmes at Costain

Employee engagement

Royal Caribbean Cruises assess the bigger picture

Read more about how Royal Carribean Cruises used their employee engagement survey

Consultancy

Understanding what 'good' looks like at Yell

Read more about how Yell profiled their talent to find 'what good looks like'

consultancy

Costain: building project management for the future

Read more about how Costain developed a Project Management Academy to tackle their talent issues

recruitment

Recruiting people that will change the face of an industry

Read more abou the recruitment for the team developing Terminal 5

consultancy

Creating a Core Skills Programme at Alfred McAlpine

Read more about how we supported Alfred McAlpine creating a core skills programme

employee engagement

RWE npower links employee engagement to customer retention

Read more abou the RWE used employee engagement surveys to improve customer retention rates

consultancy

Xerox creates a two-way communication with its workforce

Read more about how we worked with Xerox in creating a two-way communications with it workforce

employee engagement

3 engages its people to transform itself and the telecommunications industry

Read more abou the 3 used employee engagement survey to check in with their workforce after serious organisational change

recruitment

Energis attracts and retains a high-performing workforce

Read more about Energis' selection and development programme

consultancy

UGS takes a new approach to leadership

Read more abou how we supported UGS with their leadership development programme

consultancy

Developing leaders at Kleinwort Benson

Read more about Kleinwort Benson and their programme for recruiting and developing the right people for their roles

consultancy

Enterprise plc invest in managers to steer through a period of growth

Read more about Enterprise and their organisation wide skills programme

consultancy