Home Group has achieved the Investors in People gold award by meeting 165 evidence requirements across the organisation. The gold award reflects the improvements and changes which have helped Home Group go beyond the Investors in People Standard it achieved in 2011. IiP assessors highlighted Home Group’s ‘leadership pathways’ programme which prepares managers for more…
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Performance Management
Watford Community Housing wins IiP Gold award with Georgia Group
A high-impact leadership programme for managers at Watford Community Housing Trust has helped the organisation secure a prestigious gold accreditation from Investors in People. Assessors for IiP praised the WCHT’s culture of continuous development, particularly the leadership course created by the Georgia Group, a Cheshire-based leadership consultancy. The leadership programme has been designed to address…
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Neighbourhub launched by Visualmetrics & Places for People
Places for People and Visualmetrics have collaborated to create Neighbourhub, a five-stage process intended to improve housing management performance, increase profitability and strengthen neighbourhood sustainability. By defining, analysing, and measuring neighbourhood performance using interactive dashboards, the goals of Neighbourhub are to reduce property turnover, arrears, void losses and repair costs at the same time as…
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Risk management in social housing
Risk management in social housing is becoming an important issue where governance is vital, particularly following several high-profile failures and frauds reported by the Homes and Communities Agency. However, some housing providers still think of risk management as ‘merely’ a compliance obligation or box ticking exercise, when in fact it does have considerable power to…
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Performance revolution at Raglan Housing with Qlikview
Raglan Housing is using Castle Computing’s Qlikview software to consolidate its myriad data sources, removing the need to collate information from disparate systems in numerous spreadsheets and reports. The project began in June 2013 and went live in October 2013. The QlikView solution provides dynamic and tailored information for all staff. It also allows them…
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Infor insights at Spectrum Housing
Spectrum Housing Group has implemented performance management software from Infor for planning and budgeting, replacing a very spreadsheet-led culture. The new software is intended to help Spectrum to deploy its resources more effectively and provide all budget holders with the tools to forecast more accurately. Spectrum’s previous spreadsheet-based planning processes meant that there was an…
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