JRA Newsletter February 2008

Winners of the 2007 unlimited/JRA Best Places to Work Awards Announced!

At a black tie event in Auckland on 28 February 2008, the winners of the unlimited/JRA Best Places to Work Awards were revealed. Visit our Hall of Fame to view the full list of finalists – you may be surprised! Congratulations to all our 2007 finalists, and especially to:

• Overall Winner - Outward Bound Trust of New Zealand
• Category winners - Maven, James Cook Hotel Grand Chancellor Wellington and Flight Centre
• Most improved organisations - BDO Spicers Hawkes Bay, Fujifilm New Zealand, James Cook Hotel Grand Chancellor Wellington and GHD
• Highly Commended – Brookfield New World and Career Services rapuara

Preregistrations for the unlimited/JRA Best Places to Work Survey 2008 are being taken now. If your organisation participated last year, then you’re already on our list, but if not and you’d like to make sure we contact you for this year’s survey (running June-August 2008), please fill out this form.

Thank you to all who took part in the survey in 2007, and we’re looking forward to a big 2008! Thanks also to our Best Places to Work sponsors Adcorp and Dow Group, awards event sponsors Catapult, TBWA\Whybin, The Zone and Staging Connections, and survey partner unlimited magazine. The Best Places to Work issue of unlimited is available at newsstands now!

Employee Engagement: From Insight to Action

In recent weeks we have been putting the final touches on our latest publication with the above title. This publication again builds the case for focusing on engaging your employees at work, but then goes on to describe four different post-survey processes that have worked for some of our most successful clients. This is a practical publication – and it’s free! We will be posting it out to our current clients (i.e. clients who did a survey with us in 2007) in the next couple of weeks, but if that doesn’t include you, please reply to this email with your postal address and we will send a copy your way.

Special thanks to the organisations who kindly provided us with case studies: Southern Cross Travel Insurance, Hutt City Council, Overland Footwear and Toyota New Zealand.

Best wishes,
The Team from JRA