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"I believe we have everything to gain by working in partnership – at national, regional and workplace level."
Brendan Barber, General Secretary, TUC |
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"Partnership has helped us to work together to agree a common definition of success. Today our company adopts a clear set of partnership values which help to respond effectively to changing business needs and deliver solutions at making our business successful."
Divya Odedra HR Manager, Severn Trent Water |
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"Organisations which involve and engage trade unions and the workforce know that these are powerful forces for addressing major service delivery challenges."
Christine Osgood, HR consultant, Employers' Organisation for Local Government |
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"Working within a partnership agreement has enabled us to manage significant and essential changes and to overcome potentially difficult situations, taking into account the interests of the company, trade unions and employees."
Mike Gibson, National employee relations manager, Lafarge Cement UK |
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"The Partnership Institute was pivotal in helping our trust to develop a partnership agreement. The process was not an easy one. It was often challenging. One of the greatest achievements of this new agreement was to get so many very different unions to sign up to it. This demonstrates the depth and breadth of understanding that can be obtained when principles of partnership are applied effectively."
Dee Brown, Chair of Staff Side, University Hospital Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust |
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"The facilitator was clear and informative. He made the focus meeting interesting and entertaining."
Accord union rep at HBOS |
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"The course touched almost all areas relevant for staff association reps. All our concerns and questions were handled well. The trainer was inspiring and well informed. I liked his training style. There were no dull moments."
Staff Association rep, Department for International Development |
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"I appreciated the skill of the facilitation in keeping a very mixed ability experience group engaged and involved and outcome focussed."
Ken Akers, Head of HR, General Social Care Council |
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"There is no doubt that, in my opinion, partnership delivered well is a win-win for all involved. We could not have achieved the results both for the union and the business at Tesco without the involvement of the Partnership Institute."
John Hannett, General Secretary, USDAW |
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