Make Your Mark at Work
Make Your Mark at Work is a celebration of ideas, innovation and creativity in the workplace. Companies that encourage an enterprising and innovative work environment are great places to work, inspire and energise employees, deliver superior performance and continually evolve.
Throughout Enterprise Week, we encouraged organisations across the UK to celebrate and recognise the wealth of talent that is evident in every business; the best ideas often come from existing employees.Enterprise Week provides a fantastic opportunity to encourage your employees to start thinking about ideas that have a very clear and tangible business benefit, such as thinking about the responsibility businesses have towards their local community and to society.
What you can do for Enterprise Week 2008
For some ideas, download the activity suggestions document.There's also a great Make Your Mark at Work Toolkit to be downloaded from the Make Your Mark website. It's full of useful tips and information on how to create a more enterprising workplace.
Use Make Your Mark at Work to showcase what you do well already with existing programmes or launch something new.
What you do is up to you. It could be anything from:
- coming up with ideas to improve your business
- tackling business issues
- enhancing professional development
- community involvement
The Orange Make Your Mark Graduate Panel
The Orange Make Your Mark Graduate Panel is a team of undergraduates, graduates and postgraduates who want to have a voice in the debate about what businesses must do to understand and inspire young people in the workplace. Take a look at what they said at the last panel.Industry campaigns
The Make Your Mark campaign is focusing on three sectors of the UK economy - the Creative Industries, Manufacturing and Engineering and Retail.
These three sectors are being encouraged to take on the enterprise agenda to support the development of working environments that foster creativity, innovation and enterprise and to inspire young people about the very real opportunities that exist for employees to have ideas and make them happen.
We'll be adding information here on how to Make Your Mark at Work in these sectors - so check this page again soon!