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Join our free employee engagement seminar at the region’s biggest B2B expo

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As the East Midlands’ employee engagement specialists, we’ll be running an employee engagement seminar designed to help SMEs grow at the region’s largest B2B expo taking place in Solihull in November.

More than 500 business owners are expected to attend the Midlands Business Expo on Friday 26 November 2021 to meet organisations providing services to help them grow.  As part of the free event, we’ll be holding a seminar to help business leaders grow their business and increase employee engagement.

The 6 Ways to Grow Your SME Through Employee Engagement seminar will be led by our CEO of Employer Services, Scott Read, who is a results-driven business leader with a track record in helping employers strategise key business growth through enhancing employee engagement and communication. The seminar will explore the link between employee engagement and business growth, giving you six takeaways to implement within your organisation immediately.

Scott Read Growth Partners speaks at Midlands Business Expo

Scott Read Growth Partners speaks at Midlands Business Expo

Scott Read said:

“We’re looking forward to meeting business leaders from across the region to talk about their plans for business growth. We know so many SMEs have exciting plans to grow, after what’s been a tough 18 months and we welcome the opportunity to be able to help with their journeys. With the right direction, focus and commitment, employee engagement can genuinely drive positive returns in staff retention, productivity and profitability.”

There will also be an opportunity to chat to a business growth consultant at our exhibition stand and arrange a free employee engagement consultation.

Register for free

The 30-minute seminar will take place at 10am on Friday 26 November 2021 at the King Power Stadium, Leicester.  You can register for your free ticket through the Midlands Business Expo website

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About us

As an employee engagement company, we’re on a mission to help make employers’ and employees’ lives easier. You can book a free demo of our all-in-one solution for payroll, pensions, benefits, wellbeing and employee engagement services here.

New app for SMEs
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New app designed to help businesses grow

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We have announced My SMART-e, a new app to help businesses grow. My SMART-e is an all-in-one solution for payroll, pensions,  and employee engagement services.

Paul Bresnihan, Group CEO at Growth Partners said:

“Our new app replaces our GrowthPro product which has been used by our clients since we launched it in 2017. We have learned what our customers want and how they like to access services, and so we’re really proud to have built a product based on their feedback”

New employee engagement app for SMEs

“Our My SMART-e app is an all-in-one solution to free businesses from the burden of day-to-day administrative processes and compliance so they can focus on their business and their employees. We believe a focus on employee engagement is the key to growth.”

Features and benefits of the new My SMART-e app include:

  • 24/7 online access to pay and pension documents for employees
  • The latest range of benefits and discounts to help employees’ wages go further
  • Confidential online and phone appointments with a doctor within three hours
  • A fitness and wellbeing hub with wellbeing checks and access to fitness and nutrition experts
  • A full Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) with 24/7 confidential helplines, resources and expert face-to-face counselling sessions
  • Specialist support for managers including free employment law guidance and tribunal representation

New My SMART- employee engagement app for SMEs

My SMART-e is available now for as little as £2 per employee per week, with introductory offers available to help businesses invest in their employees and save money at the same time.

For more information about My SMART-e, visit our SMART Employment page or book a free demo

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We’re headlining local Women in Business Awards

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LeicestershireLive launched the Women in Business Awards 2021 to recognise the achievements of female entrepreneurs and professionals across Leicestershire. As headline sponsors, we’re playing a key role in highlighting the work of female business professionals in the region and helping to choose the finalists for each category.

The Women in Business Awards is an important event in the local business calendar, celebrating female role models for future generations.

 

Our HR Business Partner Claire Antony said:

“We really wanted to do something locally to support diversity in business and the Women in Business Awards is a perfect fit. It is well documented that across the UK, females in business continue to face barriers and are underrepresented in leading roles and sectors. As this is an issue that could affect more than half the population at some stage in their lives and has such a wide-reaching impact on an individual and societal level; we are certainly keen to help tackle it.

We want to be an organisation that is not only known for helping business leaders with things such as payroll and HR legal advice but for our commitment to providing long-term employee engagement solutions and the financial and strategic support to go with it.”

Hosted by TV presenter Emma Jesson, the awards will mark the achievements of the outstanding female entrepreneurs and businesswomen who have helped make Leicestershire such a great place to do business.

Claire continued:

“We’re looking forward to meeting all the finalists and being able to celebrate together in person at the King Power Stadium on 9 September 2021.”

Leicestershire Business Awards 2021
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We’re set to crown Employer of the Year

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The LeicestershireLive Business Awards will reunite local businesses after a tough year to crown the Employer of the Year and other companies putting Leicestershire on the map.

As sponsors of the Employer of the Year category, we’ve helped shortlist the region’s top employers who have demonstrated a strong investment in their employees.

Our Group CEO, Paul Bresnihan, said:

“The Employer of the Year Award resonates so well with our mission to make employers’ and employees’ lives easier, happier and healthier. The award is all about celebrating companies that invest in their employees, and we truly believe that when business owners take active steps to make their employees’ working environments a happier and healthier place, their businesses can thrive.”

After the success of previous years, we are proud to be sponsoring the Awards again. The finalists for Employer of the Year 2021 are:

Hosted by Gail Emms MBE and Mark Dolan and in association with Champions and charity partners Rainbows, the awards ceremony will take place on 16 September, celebrating the county’s best companies and the hard work they do.

Paul continued:

“I launched Growth Partners to help SMEs flourish by giving them access to the same benefits and services that help larger businesses prosper. There has been a lot of uncertainty over the last year for both business owners and employees. There will never be a better time to adopt better employee engagement processes and for business owners to unburden themselves from day-to-day administrative demands so they can focus on growing their business. We sincerely applaud the impressive work demonstrated by each of the finalists, and on the night, we wish them all the best of luck.”

Read more about the LeicestershireLive Business Awards

Excellence in Customer Service
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Top recognition for our Excellence in Customer Service

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East Midlands Chamber of Commerce has announced Growth Partners as a finalist for the Leicestershire Business award of Excellence in Customer Service.

The award recognises organisations with a focus on customer service and care and is designed for businesses that demonstrate excellence and a commitment to exceeding customer expectations.

Scott Read, CEO of Employee Services, said:

“We are delighted to be shortlisted for this award in recognition of our commitment to customer care. Our customer services team work hard to support all our clients – they’ve been busier than ever over the last year, extending their working hours to support our clients and their employees access our financial wellbeing and emotional wellbeing services throughout what’s been a tough year for everyone.”

The winner of the award for Excellence in Customer Service will be announced at a Gala Dinner in December alongside 13 other award winners, including Excellence in Innovation, Entrepreneur of the Year and the Collaboration Award.

Customer Services Manager, Byron Wing said:

“It’s a proud moment for the team – we’re really happy to be announced as finalists for this award to recognise the work we do for our clients,”

“In the past year, we responded to more than 40,000 enquiries, and 8,760 people used our technology to access our mental health services, so we know our work has a positive impact on peoples’ lives.”

Growth Partners is on a mission to make employers’ and employees’ lives easier, happier, and healthier so businesses can thrive. Customer services form a crucial part of this; supporting customers to access all our services, from assisting them in downloading their payslips to helping them access confidential 24/7 counselling support.

The Leicestershire Business Awards is organised by East Midlands Chamber of Commerce. More information about the awards, including a full list of finalists, is available on the Leicestershire Business Awards website

Growth Partners backs mental health charity, Mind
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We’re backing mental health charity, Mind

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We’ve announced Mind as our new Charity of the Year. This commitment to supporting Mind is part of our mission to make employers’ and employees’ lives easier, happier and healthier so businesses can thrive.

Claire Antony, HR Partner at Growth Partners said:

“We asked our employees to vote for the charity they wanted to be our company charity of the year, and Mind was the overwhelming favourite.

As an employee engagement company, we recognise the importance of mental health and wellbeing and the impact it can have on employees’ lives. By choosing Mind as our charity, we’re reemphasising our commitment to looking after employees and removing the stigma around mental health – we want everyone to feel able to talk openly about their wellbeing.”

The news comes as Mind declared a mental health emergency during last year’s UK national lockdown with more people having experienced a mental health crisis than ever previously recorded. With calls to their helpline doubling, many fundraising events cancelled and shops just reopening, they really need financial support to be able to help people when they need it most.

Our team is hitting the ground running with 18 staff members taking part in Mind’s 100 miles in May challenge – walking, running and cycling a total of 1,800 miles between them. With a challenge fundraising target of £1,800, they’re hoping to raise £1 for each completed mile.

Our team has lots of other fundraising ideas in the pipeline, including the development of innovative open-source software for local businesses, a charity auction, a summer BBQ and a curry contest.

If you’d like to sponsor the team in their challenge, visit the Growth Partners Just Giving page to find out more.

About Mind

Mind is a registered charity that provides advice and support to empower anyone experiencing a mental health problem. They campaign to improve services, raise awareness and promote understanding. They empower people to understand their condition and the choices available to them through a free, confidential Infoline, a legal line and their award-winning information.

Growth Partners and Qonnectd
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We’ve partnered with a recruitment company to help tackle employee retention

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We’ve partnered with recruitment company, Qonnectd. By working together, we’re looking to help SMEs make their employees’ lives happier and healthier and, in turn, increase productivity and staff retention.

Our CEO of Employee Services, Scott Read, said:

“We are thrilled to be working closely with Qonnectd as we share such similar values. We’re on a mission to make employers’ and employees’ lives easier, happier and healthier so businesses can thrive, which fits perfectly with a recruitment platform that is focused on employee retention. We’re always looking to work closely with businesses who share our vision so we can really improve employee engagement in the workplace.”

CEO and Co-Founder of Qonnectd Sean McAuley said:

“By working with Growth Partners, we will be helping our clients with their employee engagement and retention strategies which we know leads to increased staff productivity. I am really focused on reducing staff churn and matching candidates with careers, so this partnership is the perfect fit for us.”

This new partnership means SMEs can benefit from:

About Qonnectd

Qonnectd is a recruitment platform, established to challenge the status quo found when working in and around recruitment agencies. By embracing technology both front end and back, Qonnectd give a better, more cost-effective service to their clients.

About us

Growth Partners is an employee engagement company specialising in helping businesses to grow.  Their services free SMEs from the burden of day-to-day administrative processes and compliance so they can focus on their people and their culture.  The services are delivered through the SMART Employment model; SMART Employers benefit from a range of services and employee engagement tools.

Find out more

To learn more about making your life and your employees’ lives happier and healthier, email scott.read@growthpartnersplc.co.uk or sean@qonnectd.com or get in touch here

 

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A look back at one year of working from home [Infographic]

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March 17 marks exactly one year since we turned off the lights at our offices in Leicester’s Colton Square and set up our workstations at home.

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit the UK in March 2020, our priority was to protect staff and client services. With our roots firmly based in developing the latest technology, we knew we had the tools to continue to deliver from anywhere and provide a seamless service to our clients.

Paul Bresnihan, Group Chief Executive Officer, said:

“It’s been a tough time for everyone, and we have taken some time to reflect on what’s been an unprecedented year.

We, like all businesses, have learned a lot from this crisis, and I am truly thankful to all our staff who have each played their part.”

The infographic below takes a look back at some of the positives we have taken while working from home for a year during the pandemic.

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A reflection on the positives since working remotely:

  • 90,000 pay documents uploaded each month for clients through our payroll and pension services
  • 50,000 employees now using our platforms to access their pay, pension, discounts and physical and emotional wellbeing services through our EAP
  • 489 portals upgraded for our clients
  • Customer service satisfaction levels increased by 4% to 93% during this time, which evidences the seamless transition to remote working
  • Refocused our business with a new identity, website and app and realigned our people strategy
  • Continued engagement with employees despite the distance with 1937 virtual team meet ups and four employee engagement events
  • Mindful of the impact on our employees, we carried out 100 wellbeing sessions and arranged 20 pick-me-ups in the post
  • Through continued communication throughout the business, we celebrated a proposal, eight house moves and welcomed two babies and four new pets to the team
  • Working remotely, we adapted our learning, embracing more social and informal learning techniques

Want to learn more about us and our services?

Get in touch for a chat or arrange an online demo of our services – we’re working from home!

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We’re proud sponsors of the Niche Business Awards

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The Niche Business Awards take place virtually on Friday 22 January 2021 and we’re pleased to be sponsoring Digital Business of the Year.

The Great British determination has definitely come to the fore in supporting one another over the last year so we chose to sponsor the category for Digital Business of the Year as a fitting tribute to the efforts of local companies in surviving 2020.

Our CEO Scott Read said:

“We chose the category because it resonates so well with how all businesses will need to operate moving forward. Excellence in this area is not only testament to that business but can so often provide invaluable digital expertise to a host of businesses, streamlining efficiencies and making businesses more profitable.

It has paid to be flexible, adaptable and open during this time. In addition, it has become even more clear that you have to find a blend between your business needs and the needs of your employees. Everyone has faced uncertainty this year, and whilst making business decisions, it’s been imperative to think about how your employees are feeling and how these decisions will impact them.

Here at Growth Partners, we’re striving for a profitable and sustainable business where employees feel happy, fulfilled and appreciated. I think that more people are thinking about how they can add value, improve their businesses, and offer employees even more support and opportunities. There will never be a better time for businesses to adopt better employee engagement processes and a more fluid approach to agile working.”

Read more about the Niche Business Awards and see the list of finalists on the Niche Business Awards website

Our offer to finalists and winners of the Niche Business Awards

In recognition of all the excellent work by the companies who have entered the awards, we’re offering all nominees 50% off our payroll solutions and 12 months free payroll solutions for all winners for which the full terms and conditions are below. Our payroll solutions come loaded with employee benefits and wellbeing services which are of great support to employers and their employees particularly in these difficult times.

Exclusive Offer for Niche Business Awards

To find out more about our payroll solutions email hello@growthpartnersplc.co.uk or leave us a message here You can also call the team for a chat on 0116 340 3116

*Terms and conditions

50% off payroll solutions is available for all companies nominated for Niche Business Awards 2020 (taking place on 22 January 2021). This discount can only be applied when taking our SMART employment model. The minimum contract is 12 months.

For all companies who win their category at the Niche Business Awards 2020 (taking place on 22 January 2021), a 100% discount is available on the first 12 months of their contract. This discount can only be applied when taking our SMART employment model. The minimum contract is 12 months.

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