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A Happy Coincidence? New FMB Scotland Board are almost all Esteem Customers
We were delighted to learn that the new FMB Scotland Board was mostly made up of SMEs who have worked with Esteem to gain VQs, Supervisory and Management Training over the years. Is this a coincidence, or can we take some credit for assisting these talented Scottish SMEs? Andrew Haldane from Haldane Construction Services took…
Westerwood Hotel – a Lesson in Customer Service
Last week – Trudy and our Esteem team were surprised with a very large jar of sweeties, gifted to us by the Westerwood Hotel in Cumbernauld, as a thank you for all our custom. We thought this was a lovely gesture – especially given our team and clients battled very snowy conditions – and the…
Esteem Sponsors Charity Horse Race
On Saturday night – our MD Trudy had the pleasure of presenting a bottle of champagne to the winner of the Esteem Ltd sponsored charity horserace. The lucky winner was Fiona Green – who just so happened to be celebrating her 60th Birthday! So we are sure the champagne went to good use. …
Wishing a Happy Birthday to our Emma and Cheryl!
We would like to take the opportunity to wish two of our Steemies a Happy Birthday! Emma – our Project Coordinator and Cheryl one of our Assessors both had their Birthdays this week. Photo above is Emma being surprised the day before her Birthday at our Team Day at Novotel Glasgow – we just…
Carillion – Sad Times for it’s employees and the Supply chain
It will probably come as no surprise at this point about Carillion entering into Compulsory Liquidation. It certainly was a surprise at the beginning of the week when the news finally broke. Despite initial profit warnings being expressed in July 2017 by Carillion – it was thought that such large multi-faceted contractor with a number of…
Wishing you a Very Merry Christmas – From the Esteem Team
The Esteem offices close today for the Christmas break – back to work Thursday 4 January. We hope you all have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Our First Supervisor Modern Apprenticeship Programme Comes to an End – With our First Completer!
A milestone for Esteem was reached last week – with the final workshop for one of our first Construction Site Supervisor Modern Apprenticeship programmes! It was a bit of an emotional farewell to our candidates as we won’t be seeing them again on this programme. We had candidates come from all over the…
November Marks the Start of our Contracting Operations Management Programme
Esteem are excited to announce our brand new Modern Apprenticeship programme has hit the ground running this week! MA Contracting Operations Management is a development programme aimed at Contract Managers, Operations Managers and Directors. Our first group of motivated candidates attended their Induction workshop on Monday. The programme, which is 50% funded via Skills Development…
Nothing Better than Homemade Soup (Especially When it’s at Work)!
I’m sure we can all agree that homemade soup is a necessity when it comes to this time of year. In fact, I’m enjoying some lovely homemade potato and leek soup now as I type this post. Can you imagine waking up on a cold, frosty, dark morning – forcing yourself out of bed, getting…
Friday Ditty from Esteem… Are You a Tense Person?
We all vary significantly, that’s what makes the human race so interesting! And nothing is more prevalent – than the way in which we deal with stress and tension. We were sent the below passage from one of our dear clients which showed 18 signs that you are a tense person and we loved it! …