Engagement Working Group 

Meet your Engagement Champions 

The Engagement Champions are members of your team who have put themselves forward to represent you on our Engagement Working Group. They will be talking to you to get your ideas and thoughts on topics that have been discussed in our meetings; to make sure that you all have an opportunity to have your say. They are as follows:

Service Improvement Team:  Gemma Lancaster
Procurement: Liz Wallington
Financial Accounts: Adeline Chan
Finance Executive Assistants: Antonia Barton
Sales Ledger Cashiers: Kate Bembridge
Sales Ledger Commercial Team: Karen Marsden
Sales Ledger Student Fees: Andrew Fleming
Management Accounts ACES: Grazina Manchester
Management Accounts D&S: Gary Allen
Management Accounts HWB: Rebecca Houchen
Management Accounts SBS: Fiona Herrick
Directorate Management Accounts:  Katheryn Brewin
Purchase Ledger: Kathryn Whitley
Corporate Reporting: Pauline Fairclough

What is engagement?

The Engagement Champions working hard looking at the barriers to engagement

There are over 100 definitions of employee engagement and it can sometimes be hard to grasp the concept. The working group have tried to tackle this by coming up with our very on Sheffield Hallam Finance Directorate definition of engagement:

“Happy to work together to meet worthwhile goals in an environment of mutual commitment, support, trust and respect.”

Please let your engagement champion know what you think, so we can capture your thoughts too.

Here is an infographic with more information on what was discussed on the day  (Please click on the infographic twice to see in full):

One of the things your engagement champion will be talking to you about is some quick wins. What can we do now, that will make a big impact on the directorate. Please let your champions know what you think and if you have any ideas of your own.

Lots of ideas on lots of flip chart paper

For more information on the Engagement Working Group, what it is for and what the group is trying to achieve, please look at the Terms of Reference for the group:

Engagement Working Group Terms of Reference

In our next session we will be coming up with some Values for the Finance Directorate. We will try to get the the bottom of “What values do we as finance hold?” and “what really matters to us collectively?”

We will also be looking at the results of the Employee Engagement Health Check and come up with an action plan. How can we improve on what we already have?

Come back to our website next week to find out what was looked at in our engaging managers workshop