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Quorum Group

Quorum Group specialises in all aspects of Organisational Effectiveness and is able to provide comprehensive support for organisations looking to jump start their performance and establish Great Workplaces.

Drawing on our extensive experience in this field, Quorum can work with you and your people to realise the full benefits from your JRA survey, by:

• Rapidly identifying the real barriers to organisational improvement
• Finding practical, pragmatic solutions
• Identifying and engaging with those key ‘influencers’ in your organisation whose support is critical to the effective implementation of change initiatives, and
• Developing and implementing a plan of action drawn from the identified key drivers of employee engagement.

When you complete your survey it is critical that your people see you are committed to taking the necessary action. Quorum can help you get things moving quickly and effectively.

The New Zealand Herald

The New Zealand Herald is part of APN – a leading media company, encompassing newspapers, radio, online, outdoor advertising and printing. The Herald is not only recognised as the Best Daily Newspaper at the Qantas Media Awards in 2008 but is also the country’s leading metropolitan daily newspaper with an average readership of more than half a million people on any given day and more than one million people every week*. We offer a wide range of products including canvas, VIVA, The Business Herald, SuperSports, SuperWheels, HeraldHomes and HeraldJobs giving you the opportunity to engage with many different audiences.

We’ll be looking to profile New Zealand’s best workplaces in a supplement in conjunction with JRA following the completion of the survey. We believe this will not only profile our brightest and best places to work, but also provide ideas and inspiration to other organisations.

*Source: Nielsen Media Research, National Readership Survey, January - December 2008 AP 15+

HainesAttract

HainesAttract is an employment communications agency, helping New Zealand businesses engage, attract and retain the talent they need to grow. As Employer Brand specialists who help businesses become great workplaces with highly engaged and motivated employees, we’re proud to sponsor this year’s JRA Best Workplaces Survey.

Auckland Chamber of Commerce

For 150 years the Auckland Chamber of Commerce has inspired business vitality in the greater Auckland Region, helping you “be the best that you can be in business". The Chamber does this by positively influencing the environment in which businesses operate and providing opportunities, products and services that will improve their success.

Dow Group

Dow Group is at the forefront of working environment and property strategy in New Zealand. They work collaboratively with senior management to develop a ‘physical environment’ that supports core business aspirations. Their unique mix of property, working environment and change management skills ensure they not only get the ‘right space at the right time at the right cost’ but they also focus on using the working environment to support wider organisational challenges such as:

Institute for Strategic Leadership

The mission of the Institute for Strategic Leadership is to advance the understanding, practice and development of strategic leadership. Their objective is to support their clients in building their organisation's leadership capabilities, encourage development and innovation, and assist with change initiatives that are in line with the organisation's strategy. The Institute delivers the highly regarded Strategic Leadership Programme for Chief Executives and Senior Leaders at Millbrook in Queenstown, and the Leadership Programme for High Potentials at Clearwater resort in Christchurch.

Business Performance Improvement Resource

The BPIR is one of a number of initiatives that is managed by the Centre for Organisational Excellence Research (COER) – a Centre that exists to help organisations improve their performance through acquiring, sharing, and applying knowledge relating to organisational excellence. In addition to a dedicated BPIR team that includes several trained business excellence award evaluators (both Baldrige and EFQM), the website also draws upon COER's substantial research team of PhD researchers who ensure that the Centre is at the leading edge of research into business excellence, benchmarking, best practices, and performance measurement.

New Zealand Business Excellence Foundation

The New Zealand Business Excellence Foundation's mandate is to assist New Zealand organisations improve their performance and capabilities by providing a best practice business framework known as the Criteria for Performance Excellence, and by offering support, training and networking with like-minded managers.

Approachable Lawyer

Our research shows that the most successful businesses and Best Workplaces maintain a high performance culture. Those businesses that allow performance issues to slide tend to perform poorly. One reason for allowing this is a perceived bias towards employees by New Zealand employment law. Michael Smyth is a practising employment law barrister and author of Employed But Not Engaged: How to break up with your employees and hold on to the ring - a book described by Sir Robert Jones as “… every employer’s bible.” He specialises in guiding companies through performance management processes, restructurings and other dismissal scenarios. He is also owner of ApproachableLawyer.com, an online legal resource designed to assist business owners take the litigation risk out of their business.

Think Red

For most businesses their brand is their greatest asset, second only to their people. The better your staff understand the core purpose of your business, the more unified they'll be in achieving it and the more powerful the brand message to your customers. A strong brand is one that articulates your culture and values and matches it with your external perception. To align your people with your brand achieves an internal momentum that can propel your business forward. Your brand becomes the vehicle for the future development of your business. To ingnite your brand Think Red.