Our ability to create technology that empowers every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more can only be achieved thanks to our employees and by supporting them to achieve more.
Ashley Davies, finance director of A&R Contract Cleaning Specialists Ltd, explains why Rayner Davies should win the Leader of the Year category of the Guardian Small Business Showcase competition: A true leader is someone who inspires others around them to reach further, whilst supporting them to achieve their ambitions, I can think of no better example than Rayner Davies.
With the Marine recruits this seemed to come down to three key elements: providing a compelling vision for team members, supporting them to achieve the vision, and challenging them to make their own decisions through a learner-led coaching approach.
Chris Keates, general secretary of the NASUWT, one of the largest teachers' unions, describes teaching as "a career for those who are committed to doing the very best for young people, supporting them to achieve their full potential".
"We recognise that recruiting a diverse range of people, treating them in a non-discriminatory way and supporting them to achieve their full potential is key to that aspiration".
But they cannot do it alone, they need the rest of the world to support them to achieve this goal.
"They talk to people about their interests, skills, things they would like to do, become involved in or initiate, then support them to achieve their goal.
This drive is at the heart of any social technology venture, and I hope we can continue to understand the conditions to support them to achieve the necessary scale.
We have all discussed how to make it work; they support me and, in turn, I support them to achieve our own versions of work-life balance.
In addition, they need to know how AYA cancer advocates can support them to achieve these goals.
