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Our Thinkers and Doers-
TAGs and Regional groups
James Court-Smith – Director – Stillae Ltd
Chair of Thought & Action Steering Group

Our website – a key channel & rich resource
• The Evidence
• Practical tools & resources
• Research
• Community events & Regional
groups
• Case Studies & Best Practices
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Content from our Thinkers & Doers:
Our volunteers – Engagement practitioners & experts
Enabled and coordinated by the EFS core team
Guided by our Thought & Action Steering Group

Thought & Action Steering Group
Our core purpose is to ensure the energy, enthusiasm and hard work of volunteers
is put to good use
• Minimize duplication of work
• Identify gaps and future areas of focus
• Oversee the quality of outputs
Supported by the core team, and critically by…
• Director of Research – Gary Gill
• Sector- and Topic-specific TAGs
• Communities Director – Helen Cook
• Regional Groups
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Thought & Action Steering Group
Steering Group members are elected from amongst our volunteers
• 12 people
• Academics, Practitioners and Consultants with substantial experience and/or expertise in
Engagement
• Serving for 2-3 years
We are a committed and highly active group…
• Monthly 3 hour meetings
• Members are also active within TAGs, or Peer Review process
• Oversee the creation of new TAGs
• Oversee the quality of TAG outputs
• Support and input for Regional Groups
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Regional Groups
Led by our Communities Director – Helen Cook
Reaching thousands over recent years
Each Regional Group is led by a Chair
Groups set their own agendas, but typically include:-
• Organising local events & activities
• Spreading the message and prompting action
• Networking and sharing of solutions and challenges
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Our 12 Regional Groups
Your region needs you – GET INVOLVED
• Visit our EFS stand over lunch
• Visit our website for contact details & more
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North West Scotland North East
Northern Ireland Greater Birmingham Coventry & Warwickshire
Cymru - Wales South West Milton Keynes
Devon & Cornwall London South East

Our TAGs
Topic- and Sector-specific Thought & Action Groups
Led by our Director of Research – Gary Gill
Around a hundred volunteers directly involved each year
Each TAG is led by a Chair
TAGs set their own agendas, with Steering Group input
They work towards concrete outputs such as:-
• Toolkits and content Hubs
• Case studies and Best Practices
• Primary research – leading to White Papers (peer reviewed)
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Our 17 current TAGs
Your Sector …or Topic needs you – GET INVOLVED
• Visit our EFS stand over lunch
• Visit our website for contact details & more
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Communications Engagement Surveys
Engage for Career Success Diversity & Inclusion Barriers to Engagement
Engaging Managers Hub Social Media Education Sector
Leadership & Engagement CSR & Sustainability Healthcare Sector
Engaging with Apprenticeships Organisational Integrity & Values Not For Profit Sector
Winning insights: High
performance and Elite Sport
Performance Management Open for business in a wider world

Communications Engagement Surveys
Engage for Career Success Diversity & Inclusion Barriers to Engagement
Engaging Managers Hub Social Media Education Sector
Leadership & Engagement CSR & Sustainability Healthcare Sector
Engaging with Apprenticeships Organisational Integrity & Values Not For Profit Sector
Winning insights: High
performance and Elite Sport
Performance Management Open for business in a wider world
Our 17 current TAGs
Your Sector …or Topic needs you – GET INVOLVED
• Visit our EFS stand over lunch
• Visit our website for contact details & more
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TAG highlights
Winning Insights: Leadership, Engagement and Wellbeing in High-
Performance Business and Elite Sport
What high-performance business and sport leaders can learn from one
another to create and sustain engagement, wellbeing, and performance.
18 interviews completed with leaders from high performance businesses
Currently seeking high-performance organisations who would be able to commit
to a 12 month process during which data collection will take place at 6 time-points
The commitment required, and the benefits of involvement are clearly outlined in
the TAG booklet
Visit our stand over lunch or contact the TAG Chair - Jonathan Matthews
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TAG highlights
Organisational Integrity and Values
Helping organisations to close the ‘say-do-gap’
• Equip senior managers to ensure that their organisation’s principles or values are
clear, relevant to the mission and understood in meaningful ways by each employee
• Support efforts to enhance organisational integrity — this means equipping
managers to discover choices and actions that are not aligned with agreed values, or
areas where organisational systems frustrate people’s attempts to do what they
promise
Our work:-
Website hub to showcase the work (public library of resources)
Primary research initiative on ‘integrity’ underway with an NHS Trust
See the TAG booklet for more information
Visit our stand over lunch or contact the TAG Chair – Quentin Millington
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TAG highlights
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Healthcare sector
Focused on the need to maximise the full potential of healthcare employees and to
protect their wellbeing – both of which rely upon employee engagement
• Our first major output of a toolkit is now nearly complete and we hope to be able to transfer it
on to the Engage for Success website in April
• The toolkit covers a wide range of issues to assist healthcare organisations and their employees,
namely: Business Case & Evidence; Strategic Narrative; Culture; Empowerment; Development,
and Leadership
We would love to welcome new members to the TAG, in order to help us further
improve the toolkit we’ve created, and to help us shape the next practical output that
we can create to support employee engagement in healthcare
See the TAG booklet for more information
Visit our stand over lunch or contact the TAG Chair – Juliette Alban-Metcalfe

TAG highlights
Engaging Managers Hub
Aimed at anyone who identifies as a manager, in any sector, at any level, from the front line to the corporate
centre and everywhere in between. Anyone for whom success depends on being able to engage people
effectively.
Contents include:-
• ‘Employee engagement’ and ‘engaging managers’
• How to take ownership of engagement
• Guide to your engagement landscape and the drivers of engagement & disengagement
• How to enhance your approach and become an exceptionally engaging manager
• A guide to taking action and making change happen
Work is ongoing - driving toward a pilot stage in the summer of 2018.
We continue to explore how to best access manager’s across the board.
Your help in this area, and in the further development and testing of the Hub would be hugely appreciated!
See the TAG booklet for more information
Visit our stand over lunch to meet the TAG Co-Chairs Katy Downes
& Sarah Ingoldby
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TAG highlights
Performance Management and Employee Engagement
Primary research in collaboration with Cranfield University & the CIPD
To understand:-
• The very different ways managers in highly and lowly engaged teams conduct performance
management conversations
• How this influences employee views about their work, manager and the company
• How the performance management policy is put into practise by different managers
The TAG presented findings from it’s first phase of qualitative research at the CIPD’s Applied
Research Conference in December
We are looking for organisations to participate in our next phases.
This could include interviews with managers, employees and HR;
the use of companywide surveys, the use of mixed methods or a collaborative research
approach.
See the TAG booklet for more information
Visit our stand over lunch to meet the TAG Chair – Frazer Rendell
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Join our Thinkers & Doers
GET INVOLVED
• Visit our EFS stand over lunch
• Visit our website for contact details & more

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