An expectation of employee owned businesses is that the voice of employees is encouraged, enabled and engaged with, now that they have become ‘employee owners’. But employee voice means different things to different people, and without careful thought about how best to harness the power of this, can become reduced to chat about coffee supplies and the Christmas party.

To get the best for the business from employees using their voice, and to ensure employees who use their voice are encouraged to do so on an ongoing basis, can often be a challenge as much as an opportunity.

What should businesses do with employee voice? Where specifically do you and they want their voice to be used? Is voice being used for the benefit of the business? Do you have a diversity of voice? These are questions an employee owned business might ask or consider.

Joining our next Employee Owners Knowledge Share is Dr Shelley Poole, MD and Founder of Wellington HR, who advises businesses on their HR, culture and policy needs, and has undertaken research on the employee ownership sector to identify how a business can best hear employee voice and what employees want to use their voice to talk about.

Following the Q&A we will then divide into breakout rooms.

Join us for our informal knowledge share if you are an employee trustee, on an employee council, an employee owner, or from an employee-owned business with a vested interest, question to ask, or best practice to share.

Please RSVP to: Sam Moles at s.moles@stephens-scown.co.uk