The North West region are working on Leadership and Promoting Engagement as our People Survey priority areas.

Our objectives are:

• To increase visibility and engagement with Senior Leaders – engage with staff and wider service/partner agencies to improve the services we deliver through improved business performance, people development, increased operational resilience and greater capacity for change.

• A greater focus on listening to the views of Staff by embedding engagement events and our ‘Engage to Improve’ schedule of events throughout the year.

• Promote and support a healthier, inclusive workplace and  build better relationships and ensure sustainable practices – adopt the ‘Belonging Approach’.

• Follow the principles set out in the MOJ Be Well Strategy, focusing on  the 4 key health and wellbeing strands (Mind, Lifestyle, Finance, Environment) to contribute to sustaining a healthy, happy, productive workforce/

Progress so far

Between April to June we have:

• Co-ordinated two all staff engagement events with an agenda developed from listening to our people
• Hosted 10 ‘Engage to improve’ sessions on a range of topics such as Learning and Development, Engaging People on Probation and Workload creative Solutions:  These sessions are well attended and have created good discussion an input to inform our approach on a range of work related topics.
• Held PDU face to face team development sessions enabling new teams to come together and build a collective understanding of our priorities
• Published our quarterly You Said, We Did,
• Held a Senior Leadership Team development day
• Held monthly Regional Reward and Recognition panels since launching our new R&R strategy on the 1^st April

We regularly celebrate our people and share our successes through our monthly eZine.  This goes out to the whole region and features staff achievements including award winners, activities, photos, biographies, thank yous and shoutouts.