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If you&rsquo;ve been around in business for a while, you&rsquo;re probably already familiar with the&nbsp;<a style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent;" href="https://www.medallia.com/net-promoter-score/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">NPS system.</a> NPS - or Net Promoter Score - is a reliable way of measuring customer satisfaction, offering insight into how likely your customers are to recommend your products or services.&nbsp;
More recently however, the traditional NPS model has been redesigned to evaluate employee&nbsp;satisfaction. Known as eNPS, it is now a very popular system in the world of HR. But&nbsp;<a style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent;" href="https://www.spacehr.co.uk/blogs/enps---why-recruiters-need-to-take-it-seriously" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">what is eNPS</a>? And how does it benefit businesses?&nbsp;
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<h3>The History of NPS</h3>
Before we take a look at what eNPS is, it&rsquo;s worthwhile having a bit of background knowledge about NPS - the &lsquo;gold standard&rsquo; customer experience measurement. Developed by Bain and Company in the early 2000s, the&nbsp;<a style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent;" href="https://www.bain.com/consulting-services/customer-strategy-and-marketing/customer-loyalty/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Net Promoter System</a>&nbsp;is used by millions of businesses today to gauge how satisfied their customers really are.&nbsp;
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<h3>How is NPS Measured?</h3>
NPS is measured by asking customers a simple question - &ldquo;How likely are you to recommend [Us/ Our Products / Our Services] to a friend or colleague?&rdquo;
Those being surveyed must provide a rating between 0 (not at all likely) and 10 (extremely likely).
The respondents answers are then translated into an NPS score, which is broken down into 3 categories:&nbsp;
<ul>
<li>Promoters&nbsp;-&nbsp;these are the respondents who score your company, product or service 9 or more. They are the most loyal customers, and will happily &lsquo;promote&rsquo; your business for you.&nbsp;</li>
<li>Passives&nbsp;-&nbsp;those who respond with 7 or 8. These people are content with your offering, but aren&rsquo;t going to shout your praises from the rooftops.&nbsp;</li>
<li>Detractors&nbsp;-&nbsp;these are the dissatisfied customers, who respond with a score of 6 or below. They&rsquo;re unlikely to do business with you again, and may discourage others from doing so.&nbsp;</li>
</ul>
To calculate your company&rsquo;s final NPS score, you must subtract the percentage of detractors from the percentage of promoters.&nbsp;
For example, if&nbsp;60%&nbsp;of respondents are promoters, and&nbsp;20%&nbsp;are detractors, your Net Promoter Score is&nbsp;40.&nbsp;
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<h3>How Does a Business Use NPS to Their Advantage?</h3>
Having your Net Promoter Score written out in black and white offers many advantages. It allows you to understand the sustainability of your practices, what key issues are letting your business down, and how much you should be investing into your customer service.&nbsp;
Because NPS surveys are either sent out on a regular basis, or after customer&rsquo;s interaction with your company, it offers real-time insights into what you could improve. This makes it a great way of creating a benchmark for a company&rsquo;s success.&nbsp;
So where does eNPS come into all of this?
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<h3>What is eNPS?</h3>
eNPS takes the principles of the Net Promoter System, and uses them to measure employee satisfaction and loyalty. When used in addition to&nbsp;<a style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent;" href="https://www.spacehr.co.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">employee engagement surveys</a>, the Employee Net Promoter System can help reduce staff turnover, increase employee satisfaction, and save businesses a considerable amount of money in recruitment costs. Moreover, it ensures that people in your business can provide feedback and contribute to the overall vision.
Just like traditional NPS, eNPS involves employees being asked one, or a series of questions about how likely they are to recommend their workplace to friends and family.&nbsp;
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<h3>What Are the Benefits of eNPS?</h3>
Much like traditional NPS, eNPS offers businesses a chance to gain instant, black and white insight into how their employees are feeling. When used effectively i.e. with a series of follow-up questions, the eNPS system offers a quick way for employees to regularly give valuable feedback.
Here are some of the major benefits of eNPS:&nbsp;
<ul>
<li>It&rsquo;s quick, simple and straightforward, making it attractive to employers and employees alike&nbsp;</li>
<li>It delivers higher response rates than longer, more time-consuming surveys</li>
<li>It&rsquo;s a simple metric to use as a benchmark for your company</li>
<li>Regular eNPS surveys makes your employees feel like you value their feedback</li>
<li>eNPS is anonymous and unbiased, making it an excellent measurement tool for&nbsp;<a style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" href="https://www.spacehr.co.uk/blogs/employee-engagement---why-consistency-is-critical" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">employee engagement</a></li>
<li>It&rsquo;s cost-effective, allowing you to&nbsp;<a style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" href="https://www.spacehr.co.uk/platform" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">check in with your employees with a simple text</a></li>
<li>It typically saves companies money on administrative and recruitment costs</li>
<li>Companies with good eNPS scores tend to attract the top-performing workers in their sector</li>
</ul>
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<h3>What is Considered a Good eNPS?</h3>
While there&rsquo;s no definitive answer of what is a &lsquo;good&rsquo; or &lsquo;bad&rsquo; eNPS, a threshold of between 10-30 is the satisfactory benchmark most companies will aim for. And while these numbers may seem quite low, it&rsquo;s important to remember that eNPS can range from anywhere between -100 and 100.&nbsp;
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<h3>How to Use eNPS Effectively</h3>
The simplicity of eNPS is what makes it so great, but it must be used correctly in order to be effective. Here are our top tips for implementing the eNPS system effectively.&nbsp;
1.&nbsp;Use Employee Engagement Software
<a style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" href="https://learn.g2.com/sms-marketing-statistics#:~:text=66%25%20of%20consumers%20either%20prefer,generates%20higher%20engagement%20than%20email." target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Studies show</a>&nbsp;that people these days are 134% more likely to reply to a text than an email. This means that the most effective way to implement the eNPS system is via a popular messaging platform, like&nbsp;<a style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" href="https://www.spacehr.co.uk/how-it-works" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Whatsapp.</a>
Outsourcing your eNPS to trusted HR professionals and offering anonymity in the process will also guarantee impartiality in respondents, and will likely be more cost-effective than doing it in-house.&nbsp;
2. Listen to Your Employee Feedback
One of the biggest pitfalls for companies is that they don&rsquo;t act on the feedback provided by respondents on their eNPS surveys.
Staff feedback is so integral to the health of your company, and if your workers see a positive change following the survey, they&rsquo;ll reward you with stronger loyalty and higher engagement rates.&nbsp;
3.&nbsp;Always Expand On Your Questions
What good is asking your employees for ratings if you don&rsquo;t find out the&nbsp;rationale behind their answers? Expanding on responses is key to ensuring you get the information you need to make improvements within your company.&nbsp;
This is another reason to outsource your eNPS surveys to&nbsp;<a style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent;" href="https://www.spacehr.co.uk/how-it-works" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">HR professionals</a>, and it will guarantee you receive valuable insights that are worth every penny.&nbsp;
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eNPS is a cost-effective and easy-to-implement tool that every employer should be using to&nbsp;<a style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent;" href="https://www.spacehr.co.uk/blogs/employee-engagement---its-not-about-solving-problems" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">increase employee engagement.</a>&nbsp;If you&rsquo;re interested in finding out more about how we can help you increase employee retention and boost workplace morale using eNPS contact&nbsp;<a style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent;" href="mailto:victoria@spacehr.co.uk" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Victoria</a>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<a style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent;" href="mailto:alec@spacehr.co.uk" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Alec</a>.

And how can it help your business achieve its vision?

What is eNPS?

Are leaders born, or are they made? While we could spend all day posing arguments for both sides, it&rsquo;s probably more worthwhile to focus on what actually&nbsp;makes a good leader.
And, for this article, take a look at the behaviours that are associated with bad leadership. For it makes much more sense to rid yourself of those negative traits before trying to adopt some shiny new ones, right?&nbsp;
Here are some of the most important things NOT to do, if you want to be seen as an admirable, approachable and inspirational leader.&nbsp;
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<h3>Don&rsquo;t Be Overly Self-Indulgent</h3>
While this may seem like an obvious one, it can be easily forgotten when it comes to promoting yourself as a business. If you&rsquo;re the business owner, don&rsquo;t take all the credit for the things your team has worked hard for.&nbsp;
If you&rsquo;re telling the world (aka LinkedIn) of a recent achievement, tag your team and say thank you. Simple gestures like this will not only boost your team&rsquo;s morale - they set the tone for the supportive work culture you want to create.&nbsp;
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<h3>Don&rsquo;t Act As a Superior - Act Like a Colleague</h3>
A little humility goes a long way when it comes to leadership. If you feel the need to dominate your team as a superior, you&rsquo;ll likely get subpar results. Interrupting people, talking down ideas and showboating are signs of a &lsquo;boss mindset&rsquo; taken too far, and can leave your team feeling intimidated. This in turn will kill their creativity, deter them from speaking out about important issues, and wipe out any loyalty they may have had for you.&nbsp;&nbsp;
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<h3>Don&rsquo;t Assume You&rsquo;re Always Right</h3>
&ldquo;True leaders are the first to admit that they don&rsquo;t know everything and that they need help&rdquo; - Bill Byrd.&nbsp;
These are words to live by for every leader - not just in business, but in sport and life in general.&nbsp;
Always be open to feedback from your team. Welcome disagreement and company criticism with open arms - you have no idea how vital those opinions could be to the health of your business down the line.&nbsp;
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<h3>Don&rsquo;t Be a People Hoarder</h3>
This is one of the toughest pills to swallow for a leader. All too often, the &lsquo;higher-ups&rsquo; in a company will prevent their best talent from progressing their career for fear of losing them. This leads to anger and frustration, which is likely to hurt the company a lot more than if the employee had been shown support.&nbsp;
Instead of feeling betrayed, forsaken or bitter about your worker leaving, tell them how much their presence has meant to you. You have no idea how that same person could repay you for your respectfulness in the future.&nbsp;
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<h3>Don&rsquo;t Be Afraid</h3>
At the risk of sounding clich&eacute;, we&rsquo;ve put &lsquo;don&rsquo;t be afraid&rsquo; on this list because of its irrefutable importance. At the end of the day, leadership is all about taking risks, venturing where others haven&rsquo;t, and giving others the courage to go there with you.&nbsp;
There is no certainty in the world of business - or life, for that matter - and true leadership requires a degree of responsibility that most people don&rsquo;t want to deal with. Courage is perhaps the most admirable and identifiable trait of all great leaders, and it&rsquo;s the thing that history&rsquo;s most prominent leaders are remembered for.&nbsp;
So lead by example, inspire your team with your unwavering belief in them and yourself, and become the fantastic leader you&rsquo;ve always wanted to be.
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For more leadership tips and advice on how to create a positive and supportive work environment, visit our&nbsp;<a style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(16, 60, 192);" href="https://spacehr.co.uk/blogs" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">blog.</a>

Want To Become a Fantastic Leader?

If you've ever questioned the value of gathering employee feedback via a survey, it might be because you aren't making best use of the data and feedback. Used well, this insight can inform, improve and grow your business.
Here we look at some of the smart ways you can use the insight in your business, to drive improvement and growth. By the end of the read, we hope to have converted you to a raving survey fan! And if you already have feedback and you're doing nothing with it, we hope we inspire you to re-examine it and how it can help improve your business.
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<h3>1. Taking Action</h3>
Gathering employee feedback, then doing nothing with it can be really damaging. You have effectively ignored the feedback and wasted your team's time, which can negatively impact the trust you have with your team. The smartest thing you can do with the feedback is take action!
If you've got lots of feedback and areas to tackle from your latest survey then you might need to prioritise. Look out for key themes, repeat concerns and also some quick wins. Let your team know the top 3 to 5 things you intend to work on and then go and get them done.
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<h3>2. Supporting a Business Case&nbsp;</h3>
Don't overlook your employee engagement insight as evidence for your business case. If there are themes in your feedback they can be powerful to validate and support your arguments.&nbsp;
Let&rsquo;s consider that you were thinking of introducing a new piece of software to your business. Have you had direct feedback that there is a problem to solve in the first place? Or that this would make their working lives easier? Asking these questions first can help mitigate some costly mistakes further down the road.&nbsp;
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<h3>3. Company Communications</h3>
Planning a company update? Again take a look at the feedback you&rsquo;ve obtained. Is there anything in your survey feedback that your team would like to hear about?&nbsp;
Have a look where your lowest scores were, or any areas that were mentioned in written feedback. These are the areas that are important to your team and you can shape really impactful communication sessions around exactly what they want to hear. Similarly talk about success and the strengths of your team. A shot of positivity goes a long way.
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<h3>4. Process improvement</h3>
Broken and inefficient processes can have a noticeable impact on employee engagement. Often we see employees sharing ideas and improvements via our engagement surveys, which shouldn't be overlooked. If your customer service team is telling you via their feedback that they are frustrated, there are wins to be had by addressing their concerns, using the feedback they've already given you.&nbsp;
There&rsquo;s a clear link between employee feedback scores and customer satisfaction scores. If your employees are happy and performing exceptionally, then your customers will be happy too. The answers to unlocking both are likely to be in your survey feedback.&nbsp;
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<h3>5. Investing in skills</h3>
Often there are good indications in a survey, about training needs for leaders. Use the data and the feedback to look at what the team is telling you about it&rsquo;s leadership. Are there key themes where you can place your investment in their skills?&nbsp;
Return on investment when it comes to learning and development spend is important, so it makes sense to use feedback you already have to identify the biggest gaps and get the most from your training budget.
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<h3>6. Recruitment</h3>
One of the things we often talk about with our customers is the "story" behind a survey. What are your team telling you about what it's like to work in the business? What are your strengths and what does the team really enjoy about working there?&nbsp;
This is fantastic information to share during a recruitment process. "Our team has recently told us this&hellip; lots of our team really enjoy this... we're currently focusing on this.... as it's an area we'd like to get better at" . If you want to give candidates a good flavour of what it's like to work in your business, this is great information to repurpose.
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<h3>7. Improving Your Induction Process</h3>
Being a new starter in a business can be nerve-racking. No matter how positive the person is, they will be constantly assessing their new employer through the entire process. The good things will be expected, the bad will be remembered!&nbsp;&nbsp;
Here you&rsquo;re looking for feedback such as gaps in information, gaps in knowledge and cracks in process. If you can address these early in an employee&rsquo;s journey with you, then you can prevent them from becoming bigger issues further down the line.&nbsp;
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<h3>8. Leavers&nbsp;</h3>
Last but not least, are you marrying up the data you get from your engagement surveys, with the insight you get from your exit interviews? Are there common themes? Are there any areas for improvement that might be impacting on employee engagement and causing people to leave?&nbsp;
If so, you might need to prioritise these actions or else it can become a much bigger problem in your business. Don't overlook the insight that bringing these two areas of feedback together can bring.
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The Ten Space platform uses WhatsApp to quickly and easily gain feedback and insight. We've got a great way to capture written feedback from your teams too, so it isn't just data - your team can tell you directly what's on their mind. We can help you create a great employee engagement process that builds constant value in your team . For more information contact alec@tenspace.co.uk

8 Smart reasons to use Employee Feedback to make big changes in your business.

How can employee feedback change your business?

Inspired by&nbsp;<a style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(16, 60, 192);" href="https://www.un.org/en/observances/international-day-of-families" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">International Day of Families 2021</a>, we decided to take a closer look at how technology has changed over the past year, and impacted family life as a result. While many might argue that technology has driven us apart in recent years, social distancing has given the connective power of technology fresh relevance.
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Here&rsquo;s why we think technology is, today, more important than ever before to our personal, working and familial lives.&nbsp;
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Technology Has Connected Us Through Hard Times
However much of a technology-phobe you might have considered yourself in the past, it has proven so valuable to our relationships throughout the pandemic. FaceTime, Zoom, Whatsapp, and Google meet have allowed vulnerable relatives to keep in touch with their loved ones. Perhaps we outdid the Zoom quizzes just a little bit. But there&rsquo;s no denying the sense of connection we enjoyed sharing laughs with our loved ones in the moment.&nbsp;
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A Technological Shift in Businesses and Education
It&rsquo;s easy to reduce technology down to just social media and communication, but it is so much more than that. Major advancements in technology this year have made all aspects of our lives easier. Think about home deliveries, online appointments and e-learning opportunities.&nbsp;
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Businesses and teaching institutions have been forced to harness the true power of technology and make their products and services accessible for all. This has been particularly crucial for our vulnerable community members and their families, who have often been overlooked by companies hungry for footfall.&nbsp;
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Work From Home is Now the Norm
A&nbsp;<a style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(16, 60, 192);" href="https://www.flexjobs.com/blog/post/survey-productivity-balance-improve-during-pandemic-remote-work/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">2020 survey conducted by FlexJobs</a>&nbsp;found that 96% of workers desire some form of remote work. And if you thought that was staggering, a whopping 27% of them said that they would be willing to take a 10-20% pay cut just to be given that freedom. If this doesn&rsquo;t say something about&nbsp;<a style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(16, 60, 192);" href="https://www.spacehr.co.uk/blogs/can-flexible-working-improve-engagement" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">the impact of remote working on employee satisfaction</a>, we don&rsquo;t know what does!&nbsp;
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Of course, the pandemic quite literally&nbsp;forced&nbsp;businesses to allow their staff to work from home - many of whom, pre-pandemic, would have considered remote working impossible for their company. Funny how much a business can change their minds when delivered an ultimatum!
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Naturally, those with families have largely welcomed remote working with open arms. It helps workers maintain a better work/life balance, and massively reduces the cost of childcare, which, of course, can be extremely expensive.&nbsp;
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We&rsquo;ve All Saved Humongous Amounts of Time
Regardless of how you&rsquo;ve used technology over the past year, you can be sure it&rsquo;s saved you time.&nbsp;
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Instead of nipping out to do the groceries, we fill our virtual baskets on Deliveroo and our order&rsquo;s with us in 30 minutes. Rather than waking up at 6am to get ready for a pre-work networking event, we roll out of bed at 7.30am and switch our webcams on. No more sitting in tailbacks afterwork on a Friday, we simply get up from our at-home desks and crack open the wine.&nbsp;
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All this extra time can be spent focusing on the things that matter most to us in our life, like family. It&rsquo;s no wonder that&nbsp;<a style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(16, 60, 192);" href="https://globalnews.ca/news/7397575/covid-19-family-relationship-research/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">families feel like they&rsquo;ve become closer</a>&nbsp;throughout the pandemic.&nbsp;
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We&rsquo;re so proud to be a business at the forefront of this new technological movement. We provide solutions that help companies improve employee satisfaction, so that everyone can love what they do.&nbsp;<a style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(16, 60, 192);" href="https://www.spacehr.co.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Visit our website</a>&nbsp;to see how we can help your business.&nbsp;

We've taken a closer look at how technology has impacted on families over the last year.

How Technology Has Helped Families Through the Pandemic

I&rsquo;ve recently completed the most fantastic programme called FreelanceHer100. The first of its kind, it was designed to help 100 freelance and self-employed women in Greater Manchester to establish and grow their businesses. It came at the perfect time for me, when I was establishing Space HR. When I saw it was being led by Naomi Timperley, I knew I HAD to get on that programme!&nbsp;
The core of the 12 week programme was two sessions a week. One based on the topics that mattered to us as business owners. The speakers were phenomenal business experts and those who had trodden the path before us. They shared their expertise, wisdom and answered all our questions! The second session was a weekly group mentoring session.&nbsp;
I have to admit, I was a little disappointed when I heard it was group mentoring. Despite my background in HR, I&rsquo;d never really come across this approach to mentoring before. It wasn&rsquo;t something I&rsquo;d seen in action and I couldn&rsquo;t quite work out what to expect. How could I get the advice and support I hoped for, with others in the room?&nbsp;
I was completely wrong to be sceptical! It turned out to be an incredible experience and one that I would absolutely recommend to businesses looking to support their talent and provide creative avenues of development.&nbsp;
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There seems to be a few key elements to a successful mentoring group&hellip;.&nbsp;
Firstly, you need a flippin&rsquo; awesome mentor! Enter, Tina Boden...! Tina runs a number of different businesses and is a business mentor to others, she is the best of the best! As a mentor, she needed to know what to talk about, how to do it and have experience to draw upon. Tina brought the group together and showed us how we could get the best out of the sessions.&nbsp;
Secondly, you need a shared goal. All the women had roughly the same goal and outcome; to establish and / or grow their business. This meant we had shared experiences, concerns, fears and challenges and the aim was to work on them together - with the guidance of Tina.&nbsp;&nbsp;
Finally, you need a WhatsApp group! A lot of the joy of this experience was connecting with a new group of people. This has to happen outside of the group, as well as inside of it.&nbsp;
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Each week, Tina would know where to explore and take our conversation, so that we were discussing the topics that mattered the most to us that week. We&rsquo;d share our own experiences, give advice, sign-post and recommend.&nbsp;
We of course talked about business, I learned a huge amount from the group and moved my business forward massively as a result. But I also found a community and incredible support from an unexpected place. The joy of celebrating successes with the group was inspiring each and every week. There were usually tears and emotions too and we just let it happen. If a listening ear was what we needed that week, then it was the perfect place to let those feelings out - with a group who understood.&nbsp;
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For some, that sounds awful - but don&rsquo;t let that put you off! Remember we made that mentoring group what we all needed it to be at the time. Fast forward 6 months to bring us back together, we&rsquo;ll be in a different phase of our businesses, not in lockdown (I hope), so our group might have a different output and focus. That&rsquo;s the skill of the seasoned mentor, to identify what the group needs and steer them in the right direction.&nbsp;
I believe group mentoring can be powerful inside an organisation too. Bringing together a group of people with a common purpose is really inspiring. It allows them to network, share, impress each other and build connections. Imagine if your talent programme wasn&rsquo;t built around competition to be the best, but was built around a group of people collaborating to achieve more together. That fits my values much more closely.&nbsp;
One-to-many mentoring can really super-charge the learning experience and bring a different dynamic to mentoring. Rather than benefiting from the experience of one person, you benefit from many, along with community and networking that can last a long time after the sessions have ended.&nbsp;
I&rsquo;m a total convert, scepticism long gone! I&rsquo;ve accelerated my business and found a group of people who I know will be on the journey with me for a long time to come.&nbsp;

Group Mentoring

Fashion, football, factories, festivals, and arguably the best music scene in the world - just some of the many things Manchester is famous for. Once dubbed &lsquo;Cottonopolis&rsquo; and &lsquo;England&rsquo;s Second City&rsquo;, this incredible place has been a beacon for British businesses throughout modern history.
Of course, a lot has changed since the industrial revolution, and yet Manchester has effortlessly evolved with the times. It&rsquo;s now the&nbsp;<a style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(16, 60, 192);" href="https://technation.io/news/tech-nation-report-2020/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">fastest growing tech city in Europe</a>, and we couldn&rsquo;t be prouder to be here.&nbsp;
Here are some of the top reasons why we think Manchester is such an awesome city for businesses, freelancers, and workers in the digital space.
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<h3>New Opportunities Are Created Every Day</h3>
From the textile boom to the tech boom, Manchester has been a thriving hub for new businesses for the past 300 years. The city employs over&nbsp;<a style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(16, 60, 192);" href="https://technation.io/bright-tech-future/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">100,000 workers in the digital economy</a>, with new jobs created every single day. Even in its mid-pandemic state, the digital sector continues to thrive. A surge in demand for remote working tools, video conferencing, e-commerce functionality has put tech at the forefront of the entire economy&rsquo;s bounce back effort.&nbsp;
While a lot of companies had to make cuts and stall recruitment over 2020, many are now planning to hire new staff this year. Manchester Digital has reported that over&nbsp;<a style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(16, 60, 192);" href="https://businessmanchester.co.uk/2021/04/30/north-west-business-confidence-highest-in-the-uk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">71% of respondents</a>&nbsp;to its survey said they would onboard in 2021, with 70% planning to introduce brand new roles. See? We told you we were excellent at evolving!&nbsp;
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<h3>It&rsquo;s an Optimistic Haven</h3>
It would be a lie to say that everything&rsquo;s always rosey in Manchester. After all, it does rain here 140 days a year on average! And although the pandemic has indeed brought forth a lot of suffering, Manchester&rsquo;s wider community has never lost its &lsquo;glass half full&rsquo; spirit.&nbsp;
A recent survey by the Business Barometer found that&nbsp;<a style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(16, 60, 192);" href="https://businessmanchester.co.uk/2021/04/30/north-west-business-confidence-highest-in-the-uk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">business confidence in the North West and Manchester rose to 29%</a>&nbsp;- the highest reading since 2018, and the highest figure in the UK! The feeling is so tangible that you can practically smell the optimism in the air - or is that just our favourite restaurant opening back up?&nbsp;
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<h3>It&rsquo;s Amazingly Accommodating</h3>
No matter what sort of thing you&rsquo;re into, Manchester can accommodate. It offers some of the hottest nightlife, music venues, cafes, history and culture hotspots in the whole of the UK - all accessible by fantastic transport links. The city&rsquo;s frequent tram services allow you to forget all about timetables - which is great news for those whose zoom meetings frequently run over!&nbsp;
Manchester is also home to a student population of&nbsp;<a style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(16, 60, 192);" href="https://www.investinmanchester.com/why-manchester/talent/universities" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">over 100,000</a> - one of the largest in Europe. This makes it the perfect place to establish symbiotic relationships between fresh talent and startups ready to grow.&nbsp;
To put it simply, we absolutely love Manchester, and we couldn&rsquo;t be more excited to contribute to its digital sector with cutting-edge technology that helps businesses improve employee engagement and thrive.&nbsp;
If you&rsquo;re a fellow digital business interested in collaborating to celebrate this sensational city,&nbsp;<a style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(16, 60, 192);" href="https://spacehr.co.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">get in touch with us</a>!&nbsp;
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What do you do with crazy high engagement scores?
Take your business international! Read our Case Study of how we're working with BEAM Fieldwork.&nbsp;
One of Ten Space&rsquo;s first ever clients was is the wonderful BEAM Fieldwork.
Amy, the MD, leads a small but perfectly formed team of research professionals. Organising market research studies for large and well known brands.
When we first started working with Amy, we were in the thick of the pandemic. She had a number of team members who were on furlough and she was uncertain about the impact it was having on the team and what the path out the other side of lockdown looked like.
We worked with Amy to build an anonymous survey, which we sent out to the team via WhatsApp. This method worked for a team who weren&rsquo;t all sat in front of emails, depending on if they were on or off furlough at the time.
We built a set of questions that would allow Amy to take a temperature check from the team, gain insight into their sentiment and obtain written feedback to help Amy to move the team forward.
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So, what did we find? We found a team who were so engaged it was almost off the scale! Nearly &ldquo;full marks&rdquo;! In fact her scores were so high, they had us checking our code to make sure we&rsquo;d counted right!
So what advice do you give when the client can probably tell you a thing or two about engaging a team?! Well you talk about what you&rsquo;re going to DO with those engagement scores!
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At Ten Space we often talk about the engagement bank account, the more credit in the bank, the more great things you can buy for your business. The higher your engagement (credit), the more you can achieve with your business. We discussed how Amy could comfortably make some withdrawals; implement change, challenge the team some more, take some risks and still have an engaged team supporting her every move.
It gave Amy the extra confidence she needed to press the 'super charge' button on her business and go international. It had always been an ambition, but with the knowledge her team were behind her and some additional client wins, she went for it.
Fast forward to BEAM&rsquo;s next quarterly survey. We worked with Amy to evolve her questions. Her business was changing and so we needed to be tapping into slightly different things to keep it relevant and deliver the feedback Amy needed to move forward again.
She&rsquo;d just held a team meeting, where she&rsquo;d announced the changes and what the future of the business was going to look like. Big changes; new line managers, more risk, extra challenges for the team and no more furlough.
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So did her engagement drop? Did Amy make a withdrawal from her engagement to enact the change?
Nope! Honestly, there&rsquo;s dream teams and then there is BEAM! Amy knew what her team needed to keep them engaged in the future of the business (backed up with our engagement model). She was able to lead her team through the change, reset the vision and keep them engaged with her and with each other.
We&rsquo;re going to be following Amy&rsquo;s business, every quarter, evolving her question set to keep it relevant and fresh. To ensure that she knows what&rsquo;s going on with her team in the moment. What impact the changes are having and how it&rsquo;s impacting on engagement.
If something shifts and we see a downward trend, we&rsquo;ll know about it quickly and we&rsquo;ll know why it happened. Her team will tell us.
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We&rsquo;d like to wish Amy and the whole team at BEAM all the best for the future. We&rsquo;re honoured to be partnering such an incredible business at such a pivotal part in their journey. Go get them!
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We offer a managed service at Ten Space, so we get to know your business and where you&rsquo;re heading. We&rsquo;ll work with you to get you the employee insight you need to help move forward and achieve your business goals.&nbsp;

How BEAM used their engagement scores to expand their business

Case Study: BEAM Fieldwork

It&rsquo;s great to learn something you didn&rsquo;t know before.
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Back in 2015 I completed the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses programme, North West. The programme was an investment to help entrepreneurs create jobs and economic opportunities. Over 20 days of study, the course covered all aspects of business growth, including finance, sales, marketing and exit strategy. The aim of the course was to write a business growth plan that would help our business achieve its objectives.&nbsp;
At the time, I was a Founder/Director at a digital marketing agency and the business was about 6 years old. It&rsquo;s fair to say that at the start my business partners and I had no idea what we were doing but regardless, we were young and we were doing it for ourselves so we were loving work and finding our way.&nbsp;
We offered a broad range of digital marketing services to SMEs. We built a reputation for being a really solid local agency. We worked hard for our clients and charged a very reasonable price for the work we did. We also worked hard at improving the business, bringing more experienced and more diversely skilled staff into our team as the business matured. We totalled about 16 people at our biggest.&nbsp;
At the end of the course, I had to present my business plan to the rest of the cohort. After i&rsquo;d finished my presentation, one of the course leaders asked me - &ldquo;What business activity did you think was the most important before you did the course and what is most important now&rdquo;. I really didn&rsquo;t have to think long about my answer.&nbsp;
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Before it was Sales.&nbsp;
Now it was Company Culture.
So what made me change my mind?
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At the time I started the course, one of the biggest challenges we were having was attracting great talent to come and work for us. We had a good core of staff (about 6 or 7) but Manchester is not short of digital agencies and the competition to attract great people to advance the business was pretty fierce and was driving salaries and recruitment fees through the roof.&nbsp;
Building an awesome company culture was the answer to this and, as I discovered, many other things too.&nbsp;
Company culture runs through your business like DNA in a person. It&rsquo;s what makes you unique. It incorporates things like your company vision, values, language, beliefs, behaviours and habits, but it&rsquo;s so much more. You can&rsquo;t decide exactly what the culture of your business is going to be (just like your own personality) but you can use things like your company vision, mission and values to steer it, just like you can use your own values to guide you personally.&nbsp;
Also, you cannot fake it. You can&rsquo;t pretend to be something you&rsquo;re not or you get found out pretty quickly. The founders of any SME business probably tend to set the tone for the company culture by the way they behave, the values they live by and the vision they have for their own business. However, once it gets past a certain point the company starts to outgrow their reach and suddenly the people they employ begin to have a much bigger influence on the culture, particularly as headcount grows. At this point, it becomes imperative that the culture becomes embedded in the business.
What I discovered (probably not a big shocker for some of you out there) was that creating an amazing company culture helped to attract much better people to come and work for us. Our staff became active promoters of our business, both internally and externally and our staff retention was incredible. But the even more positive effect was on our clients. We started to win bigger accounts that wanted to spend more with us and who bought into the skills and experience of the newer members of our team. They also became active promoters of our business too and so the sales job started to become easier.&nbsp;
Our company culture started to build and take on a life of its own because we had a more engaged team. The better clients and the better team went hand in hand. You can&rsquo;t build a digital marketing agency with great clients and a crap team, nor can you keep a great team if you have crap clients. Building an engaged team and a great culture takes time, but it's totally possible if you spend the time listening to your co-founders and bringing your team into the conversation. Making sure they have input and their values are aligned with yours, as well as giving them a bloody good listening to goes a long way.
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So that&rsquo;s my Why. That&rsquo;s why I'm here at Ten Space.&nbsp;
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I want to help other businesses make a positive difference to their company culture. I want to help other businesses build a great team for the future. I want to help them grow into great businesses with exceptional leaders and exceptional workers that are all bought into the same vision, living by the same values and working to the same goals.&nbsp;
But I also want to build technology that helps make proper decisions based on real data. Too often, leaders make decisions based on their &lsquo;gut instinct&rsquo;. They also think that because they feel great about the way the business is going then everyone else does. This is often not the case and regular interactions with your people will help you get a better understanding of that.&nbsp;
If you don&rsquo;t lay the right foundations then you&rsquo;ll never build an engaged team and a great company culture. Whether you&rsquo;re a digital marketing agency or any other type of business, that&rsquo;s what we&rsquo;re here for. Let us help give your people a voice. You might be surprised what comes back.&nbsp;

Company culture in digital agencies

I&rsquo;m so incredibly fortunate to have two awesome girls who we brought into the world via IVF. My eldest is getting ready to go to school in September, my youngest is now 18 months. Our house is noisy and messy!
IVF is one of those little talked about &ldquo;mysterious&rdquo;, sometimes controversial, processes. As such it can be difficult to know how to support families going through treatment in the workplace. In 2018 an estimated 54,000 patients went through IVF treatment in the&nbsp;<a style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: transparent;" href="https://www.hfea.gov.uk/about-us/publications/research-and-data/fertility-treatment-2018-trends-and-figures/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">UK</a>.
By sharing a little of my personal story, I hope to inform and show how employers can support employees and their partners, going through this emotionally charged and physically demanding process.
IVF is time demanding and very time critical - there is very little wiggle room on when things happen once the process is in full swing. It&rsquo;s full of anxious waiting, poking, prodding, awful phone calls, hope and disappointment. I consider myself relatively fortunate in that I knew I wasn&rsquo;t going to be able to get pregnant naturally. So I was spared the many months and years of disappointment before we entered the clinic. But it still took us many years, many rounds, a lot of money and a lot of heartbreak before we completed our family.
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Not everyone&rsquo;s process looks the same, there are different protocols that patients may be put on. I&rsquo;ve shared mine, but there are so many different ways IVF can play out. If you are reading this as an employer, be thinking about the amount of appointments, time, physical and emotional demands needed at each step. The mental health and general well-being strain that IVF puts on a family is unreal.
<ul>
<li>Appointment with consultant, make an initial plan</li>
<li>Meet with a counsellor to make sure we&rsquo;re aware of the emotional implications and where we can access support from if we need it</li>
<li>Blood tests and scans</li>
<li>Appointment with consultant - outcome of results. Make another plan.</li>
<li>Appointment with nurse to show how to administer injections and medication</li>
<li>2 weeks of injections administered at home - had to be the same time every day and needed to be refrigerated</li>
<li>Scans to check everything going as expected</li>
<li>Final scan to make sure my body is ready</li>
<li>Stimulation shot - done at a specific time with egg collection exactly 12 hours later - no earlier, no later</li>
<li>Day surgery to collect eggs - general anaesthetic - from this point on, it&rsquo;s a waiting and numbers game... My numbers were 12 collected.</li>
<li>Phone call to say how many eggs had fertilised - 6 left :-(</li>
<li>Call at day 5 - how many are actually good enough to use - 3 in my case - this is a typical drop off rate. It&rsquo;s an awful phone call to take...</li>
<li>Then there&rsquo;s the big appointment to put an embryo back in</li>
<li>Two week wait - this is a horrific time of symptom spotting, googling &amp; worrying (some women take this time off work - I decided not too and to keep myself distracted)</li>
<li>Pregnancy test - ❤️ Or 💔</li>
</ul>
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This is just one process, if it doesn&rsquo;t work first time, embryos can be frozen and the last couple of steps repeated until all embryos are used. The phone call from the clinic to hear if your embryo has successfully thawed prior to them being implanted is also horrendous!
So how as an employer can you support this? I&rsquo;d encourage you to get clear on what your stance would be if one of your team told you there were going through IVF. I&rsquo;m not one for a whole raft of policies, but many larger employers do have one - either way , it can be helpful and supportive to talk upfront with employees about how you can support and help.
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Here&rsquo;s some of the key considerations:
<ol>
<li>Ask them to share their process with you if they are comfortable to do so. There is a lot of information, medical terms and jargon used in IVF. I was mostly dazed and confused throughout, so don&rsquo;t automatically assume your employee will know exactly how it will play out!</li>
<li>Appointments can be last minute and frequent. Where you can, be flexible and understanding. Not every job can facilitate that - but what can you do? What information would you like so you can keep work things moving, but support your employee at the same time? Consider unpaid leave, annual leave entitlement, or a period of temporary flexible working as a way of enabling the employee to take the time out that they need.</li>
<li>If you offer your employees mental health support, make sure you are sharing the details of how to access that (I&rsquo;m thinking here about EAP schemes, or private medical insurance). They will likely have been signposted to support via their clinic, but you can also play a part in supporting their mental health through the journey</li>
<li>Whatever your usual medical appointment process is, you should follow the same. Don&rsquo;t treat it any differently. I don&rsquo;t want to hear any comments about it being and &ldquo;optional&rdquo; thing - don&rsquo;t be that employer. This includes time off sick as a result of side effects from IVF treatment, you should treat this as you would any other period of sickness.</li>
<li>The medications are pumping hormones into your body. They can make some people extremely unwell and can change their appearance. The bruises from injecting every day are horrid and you feel bloated, uncomfortable and at times in pain. Are there ways you can make the physical demands of the role easier for the employee during this time?</li>
<li>Case law suggests that an employee is considered to be pregnant from when an egg has been fertilised, before it is put back into the uterus. Wrap that same care and support around them that you would any other pregnant employee. Usually if you&rsquo;re talking about &ldquo;rights&rdquo; then you&rsquo;ve lost the engagement game - but pregnancy and maternity rights do apply here - you can read more in this&nbsp;<a style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" href="https://workingfamilies.org.uk/articles/workplace-rights-for-those-undertaking-ivf-treatment" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">article</a>.</li>
<li>The two week wait is HORRENDOUS. You want to wrap yourself in cotton wool - you worry about every little twinge, every knock - everything is hyper exaggerated. Your employee may need support from you here too.</li>
<li>Please think about the partners of the employees going through this too. They also need to be at appointments and are experiencing all the emotional highs and lows even if their body isn&rsquo;t experiencing it.</li>
<li>If the IVF doesn&rsquo;t work, medically it&rsquo;s a miscarriage. Emotionally it is no different. Miscarriage is a whole different article, but it should go without saying that it is devastating to experience. Support your employee, and their partner.</li>
</ol>
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Hurrah - you&rsquo;re pregnant. We&rsquo;re done right?! Well not really! I was still taking medication to help protect my pregnancy. I needed early scans to check on what was going on in there. My anxiety was at an all time high once I&rsquo;d got that positive. The baby is so precious, I&rsquo;d been through so much to bring it into the world. My Googling at this point was out of control! Don't skip out on that important health and safety risk assessment that you should be doing for all pregnant employees, however early on in their pregnancy they are, you may identify area of adjustment that can help.
I&rsquo;d really encourage you to support families in your team going through this as much as you can. If they feel comfortable talking about it, listen and offer as much support as you can. Yes it&rsquo;s a lot of time away from work, but what&rsquo;s more important? The work, or their potential to start family? If the work can get done and you can help them fulfil their dreams of having a family, isn&rsquo;t that what a wonderful employer would do?
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If you&rsquo;d like to ask me any questions about how to support your employees, or build a policy around this, I&rsquo;d be delighted to help. Email me at victoria@tenspace.co.uk. I&rsquo;d also love to hear of any best practice in this area, so I can add it in to this blog.🙂

My story and how you can support employees going through IVF

Supporting IVF in the workplace

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 A great employee engagement platform will give you the data, insight and feedback you need to enact real change in your organisation. Using a third-party platform adds an extra layer of trust. By segmenting the data from engagement surveys, you can uncover valuable insights specific to different employee groups. You can find where your problems are coming from and create targeted actions.

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<div><h3 class="heading pb-4">What is Employee Engagement?</h3>To put it in its simplest form: Employee engagement is the level of commitment, enthusiasm and dedication employees have towards their work and the organisation. Enhanced employee engagement reveals itself in employees reaching their full potential and delivering exceptional performance at work.</div>

Measuring employee engagement in your legal firm can be achieved through regular employee surveys. This first step is critical in gathering data that will help you make decisions. Ideally you should be surveying your business every month so you can quickly observe any drops in engagement and affect a plan quickly to resolve issues. Regular surveys provide the data you need to build a strategic engagement plan based on real information, not gut feeling.


Using an ‘engagement specific’ survey platform will help you gather data faster, more securely and more accurately. The right platform will also make it easier for people to submit their responses in a way that’s easy for them. You’ll be able to compare results over time to analyse trends. By segmenting the data from engagement surveys, you can uncover valuable insights specific to different employee groups. You can find where your problems are coming from and create targeted actions.

Once you’ve done your first survey, things will become instantly clearer. You’ll start to see the hotpots in your company by a variety of segmentation criteria such as team, location, gender, role and tenure. Open-ended feedback will often help provide a solution to the challenges you’re seeing. We’re always amazed how much insight a first survey provides to our customers from a high level right into the detail. Measuring consistent data-points over time will help gain a deep understanding of how to build your strategic plan.


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When your employees feel connected to the mission of the company, their engagement improves significantly. They find meaning and purpose in their work, knowing that their efforts contribute to something larger than themselves. They become more invested in the success of your organisation, leading to higher productivity, increased job satisfaction and a stronger sense of belonging within the team.

A great leader inspires and motivates their team members, earning their trust and respect. They provide clear direction, guidance, and support, allowing employees to perform their best and reach their full potential. A great leader creates a sense of empowerment, job satisfaction and loyalty among the team, leading to enhanced employee engagement and overall success.

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The Ten Space engagement model underpins the data. It ensures a consistent approach to capturing feedback that can be measured over time. Our platform helps you build the perfect question set to understand the real issues preventing high engagement. 

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Retaining your best people is all about understanding the individual and collective journeys they're on. Ten Space allows you to predict retention issues before they occur and prevent your top talent from leaving.  

The Ten Space survey platform allows leaders to seamlessly follow their employees' journeys within the organisation, gaining invaluable insights into their professional growth and development. The platform provides a unique ability to monitor employee sentiment through live data streams from surveys, enabling leaders to make informed decisions to enhance workplace satisfaction.

All of your employees are on a journey. Even before they work for you, they're building an impression of your organisation through the hiring process. Common experiences for all employees may include hiring, onboarding, probation, promotion and exit. Ten Space allows you to unpack the employee experience at each stage of the journey, helping you improve the experience for future employees. 

Ten Space provides a highly customised in-depth feedback loop to understand which parts of your HR initiatives and processes could be causing retention issues. Our platform sends our feedback surveys at critical times to gather sentiment and understand feeling. At every step, you'll gain a true understanding of how employees really feel and what retention risks exist.

Ten Space makes the process of collecting feedback really easy. Our platform allows you to build and launch custom feedback loops that can analyse specific journeys being experienced in all parts of the organisation. You can customise your questions to gain a deep understanding of employee experiences. And our AI summaries make it easy to analyse retention hotspots at all times.

At any time, your HR team can log into Ten Space and view our feedback dashboards. Our customer success team will hold regular reviews and insights sessions with you, so you feel fully supported. We'll help you to get the most out of the insights you've captured and support you in taking the next steps to further enhance employee satisfaction. 

The Ten Space way

Ten Space assists you in exploring high-performance within your organisation. Leveraging our performance-focused surveys, we enable you to achieve your goals and unlock the full potential of your teams. Our platform helps you identify the unique qualities that make a team exceptional, empowering you to replicate and build upon their success. Analysing performance culture team by team in organisations where performance matters.

Ten Space equips you with everything you need to drive team performance and achieve success. By leveraging our platform, you can assess and enhance the culture, communication, management, individual commitment, projects and processes that contribute to team effectiveness. Through comprehensive performance evaluation metrics and insights, you gain a deeper understanding of your teams and can make informed decisions to drive improvement and productivity.

Utilising our performance-based question sets we’ll help you understand how to assess performance in organisation. We guide you by asking the right questions to extract the necessary insights on performance evaluation for teams. Whether your team operates in creative, technical, administrative, or sales-focused areas, we tailor the process to fit your team's specific requirements.

We assist you in segmenting your team data, enabling you to gain in-depth performance insights and understand the trends that impact team effectiveness. Our intuitive dashboard helps you quickly identify key insights from your results, allowing you to focus on actionable steps and next moves.

Harnessing the power of Ten Space as a trusted third-party anonymous platform, we provide a safe space for employees to share any challenges, barriers, or catalysts that affect their performance. This way, we foster a climate of openness, encouraging individuals to provide candid feedback that can uncover valuable insights.

We can help you integrate communication and training needs analysis into your surveys, allowing you to gather ideas and solutions directly from your team members. By capturing this information, you gain a clear understanding of work expectations and where your team would like you to focus your efforts to improve performance culture. There are no limitations or holding back when it comes to taking action.

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