Big potential. Could be excellent. Needs to change. - Anonymous employee Enhance Media Employee Review

3.0
11 May 2014
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Sometimes it was an awesome place to work, but that could be flipped in a second to make it feel like the worst. Good, friendly, hard working staff. Nights out were good. MD is both a pro and a con. Should stick at what he's best at and get more senior experienced staff to lead in other areas. One director is intelligent, experienced, shows positive leadership and knows how to motivate to get the best out of staff. This is the standard the company desperately needs and can only be acquired from outside to fill the experience gap and take the business to where it could be. I hear things are better in some areas like training but steps forward like this can be undone by the MD at a whim..

Cons

Hard work is frequently unappreciated. Long hours and unrealistic presumption that staff should work even longer hours. MD overbearing and unreasonable sometimes. One director is too inexperienced and is out of their depth, can come across as false and deflects shortcomings by shifting blame or taking credit for someone else's work. This has been overlooked for more than a year. The company has to aspire to better. Hardly any benefits. Holiday allowance was too low when I was there.

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Enhance Media Response
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I want to thank you for your comments about our great team. I read every comment on here and discussed them all within the senior management team. Both positive and negative comments are opportunities to learn. We are lucky to have some very talented people working with us and we try to build a positive team culture. Events including the company nights out that you mention are good examples of this. With regards to my own performance I readily accept that I have strengths and weaknesses, and our continued growth means I can start to focus more of my activity on these areas of strength. As you know, we’re committed to getting in experts wherever we can benefit from their input, and I’m no exception to that – there’s a lot I have to learn too. Our senior management team is a balanced forum. Decisions come jointly from the senior leaders in our business. This happens more than ever now as a direct response to feedback from the team about working collaboratively at the senior level. I’m glad you have recognised that we are investing in team and individual training. I am the first to acknowledge that we are not yet close to being a finished article, though we always try to do the best thing for the business, the people in our teams, and of course our clients. Thank you again for your comments and I wish you every success in your future career.

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