Sharing knowledge, contacts and best practice

The Science Park's Special Interest Groups are invitation-only meetings. The aim of the SIGs is to bring together people with similiar roles in order to facilitate the sharing of best practice, experience and contacts, and to promote education and training. Discussions between members of the SIGs outside the formal meetings will be enabled via the Park's new community app.

• Human Resources
• Facilities Management
• Transport
• Executive Assistants
• Communications and Marketing

Human Resources

The ability to attract and retain staff at all levels of seniority is critical for  all the companies on the Park. The aim of this SIG is to provide a platform for people performing an HR function to discuss the issues they face, and to share experience, contacts and best practice.  Topics for discussion include:

• Recruitment
• Retention
• Training
• Mentoring
• Agile working
• Schools outreach
• CSR
• Apprenticeships
• Health & wellbeing
• Employee benefits
• Employment law
• Language classes
• Housing
• Immigration
• Staff relocation

IR35

Mental Health & Wellbeing Slides by Adelle Shaw-Flach

Facilities Management

• Business resilience/security
• Waste management
• Health & safety
• Lab equipment - maintenance and sharing
• Energy consumption

Souluva 

CK Market Report

Connected Kerb - 19 January 2021

Executive & Personal Assistants

This popular SIG provides a vaulable platform for  EAs to get to know one another, to exchange views, contacts and methods of working.

• Best practice
• Knowledge sharing

Communications and Marketing

Communications and Marketing is a set of activities involved in managing and orchestrating all internal and external communications in order to achieve the company’s planned objective(s).

The aim of this SIG is to provide a platform for sharing ideas, contacts and challenges. Each quarter the group will meet to discuss a key topic, deep dive into a current challenge, and make connections. This SIG is exclusively for Communications, Marketing and PR personnel of Cambridge Science Park businesses.

Along with other company departments, the reach of topics are broad. The list below is indicative and items discussed will be driven by the members.

Topics covered

• Strategic Marketing
• Marketing Communications
• External Communications
• Corporate Affairs
• Internal Communications
• Employee Engagement
• Branding
• Product Marketing
• Best practice
• Social media