How will you communicate the new shape of your business and the opportunities Employee Ownership presents?
How will you communicate your intentions or your commitment to Employee Ownership? How will you get everyone on-side?
How will you engage and empower your people? How will you ensure sustainable succession? How can you frame Employee Ownership as an opportunity for growth?
How will you ensure your brand works in sync with your culture? How will you put the people at the heart of your business at the heart of your brand?
When you need to communicate your adoption of employee ownership, you need to generate the right messages for both internal and external communication.
Take advantage of this crucial opportunity to get everyone to understand why employee ownership is right for your business – why it matters, what it means for your team and, potentially, your partners and customers. These communications need to be constructed carefully, ensuring that you get the messages right, and early adopters onside.
Depending on the structure of your employee-owned business, we’ll run a workshop with a bespoke combination of owners, operational board, trust board or other leadership. Then we’ll help you craft the required messages around the transition and work with you to get that message out.
When you need to engage and empower your people, you need to encourage them to adopt a position of ownership and show why they should care. You need to explain what’s in it for them, and the wider benefit for your business.
We can help to align your teams around your culture. We can help you to celebrate and communicate that culture by working with leaders and teams to extract the ingredients unique to your organisation.
We’ll run workshops with leadership, and wider stakeholders from the team where we’ll interrogate your vision, mission and values to ensure they fit your new shape. We run an intrinsically inclusive process, improving buy-in across the business, by working with larger stakeholder groups.
We’ll help you unite your teams, craft your unique employee value proposition and internal communication plans, and adapt existing messaging for use across branded touchpoints.
When you need your brand to represent your people-focused business, this is the opportunity to use employee ownership to your advantage.
We’ll run strategic narrative workshops with your leadership to craft a customer-centric story around your offer. Designed to help you attract both the right customers and the right teams, this narrative will help you to sharpen up your elevator pitch and reaffirm or shift your positioning and value proposition.
These outputs will become a central foundation from which all your external messaging arises, ensuring that every part of your organisation is primed to communicate everything about you with clarity and consistency.
"Having gone through the process with their own business and working with other EOs, Bella and Harry recognised the importance of aligning and engaging the team before announcing the sale to the wider world.
Their first-hand experience with employee ownership was invaluable for these workshops and our subsequent communication to clients and candidates.
It’s so refreshing to work with experts who genuinely care about the success of employee ownership for the companies they assist. My only regret is not involving them earlier in the initial communication with the team. If you are considering transitioning to employee ownership, I highly recommend getting Salad involved early in the process."
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Salad has a long and fruitful history of working in partnership with a diverse range of businesses, helping them align business & brand to create clarity and consistency through collaboration.
A little while ago, our founder and MD, Bella, shared her thoughts as an ex-owner as we transitioned into Employee Ownership. Now, the baton has been passed to me to share the view of this transition from the other (employee) side, and with the benefit of some hindsight.
Neatly fitting into ten points, here’s a round up of my learnings as we pass our two and a half year anniversary of being employee owned.
