RealWorth Employee Handbook

Hello – we are RealWorth

We help organisations to identify, maximise, measure and communicate social and environmental change and to assist them achieve better, more sustainable outcomes.

Our ultimate aim is to support the eradication of inequality by creating places which enable everybody to realise their full potential.

We figure that it wouldn’t make sense to apply this to our business model without also applying it to our employment practices as well. We are a 21st century business and therefore we don’t use outdated 20th century management practices.

We need and encourage all of our people to be the best version of themselves that they can. This means that we start from a principle of trust. We only recruit adults,  so we want to start by treating you as one. We think if we provide you with some sensible boundaries and outline guidance, we can trust you to use good judgement in all situations.

So a very warm welcome to our RealWorth employee handbook. It aims to be high on personality and low on rules. We’d like to continue improving it, so if you have any ideas on how to do that, please just let us know – happy reading!

Your early days

We’ve all been the newbie and experienced what it’s like when we don’t know who anyone is, where anything is and how anything gets done.

It’s pretty hard to figure out how to change that, so our approach is to say instead ‘hey, don’t worry’. It’s actually OK that you don’t know everything. In fact, we encourage you to bombard us with questions suggestions and ideas right from your first day.

We’ll make sure that your line manager is around to welcome you on your first day and to support you in putting together a plan for your early days with us.

Your first few days is  likely to consist of a combination of reading and shadowing. Reading will help you to get up to speed with our methods and some of our current projects. Shadowing will begin to give you a real feel for some of our customers, partner organisations and simply how we do things around here.

So it’s important to be in learning mode from the day you arrive. Feel free to ask anything at all. We would love you to tell us if you think we can do something better. The early days are perfect to capture those moments of “…how weird, wonder why they do it that way…?”

How am I doing and how will I know?

Because we are focussed on outcomes rather than inputs, we  deliberately avoid a traditional and bureaucratic appraisal process.

However, we do think that it is really important for everyone to know what is expected of them, what they are doing really well and what they can do to continue to learn and improve.

We will make sure that, within your first eight weeks with us, we agree with you what success will look like in your role and how we will measure it. It’s important to acknowledge though that things change and as our business evolves and new work is secured, priorities may shift.

Once you’re established, it will be up to you to seek feedback from your colleagues and we will build this in to a team and peer review process.