Retaining quality staff and maintaining morale in facilities management can be challenging when most employees are spread out geographically and spend most of their working lives within another company.
When Rollright was founded in 2002, we had a small team of 34 employees and found that building a close-knit relationship between the leadership team and the service line staff was a natural product of our small size. Almost ten year’s later we have experienced year on year growth and now employ over 250 members of staff located at sites throughout the UK.
We are still dedicated to ensuring communication between the leadership team and service staff remains accessible, open and encouraged which is why we have developed our annual programme of campfire meetings.
This month marks the start of the 2011 campfires and Pinder, Clive, Charlie and Mark will be travelling to all our sites throughout the UK.
What are campfire meetings?
Campfire meetings are held in groups, chaired by a director and exclude direct line managers
- Campfire meetings are chaired by a director who is not involved in that part of the business
- Every employee attends
- The staff attending set the agenda
- Everything said in the meetings is confidential
Why are campfire meetings important?
- Staff have a chance to have an open discussion without their line manage present
- Helps foster a sense of company pride, something that can be difficult to obtain when staff spend their time on another company’s premises
- Senior management can learn and resolve issues they wouldn’t ordinarily hear about
- Gaining feedback from a group reassures staff that it is not a personal assessment of their performance and encourages honest communication
