WHOLE-WORKFORCE
Training & Engagement
Education Technology for the Cleaning Sector
WHAT IS UhUb?
UhUb provides whole workforce training out of the box, but it's much more than that.
COMPANY ACCREDITATION
You can't buy accreditation from UhUb, and training a handful of managers and operatives won't cut it.
UhUb accreditation is earned, telling your clients that not only do you have excellent training ability, you apply it by engaging with it at all levels of your business.
CAREER PATH & SPECIALIST SKILLS EDUCATION
UhUb provides CPD Certified Supervisor training L1 & L2 (A step into Management) and a growing suite of specialist skills training courses at no additional cost.
LIVE REPORTING FOR ALL ACTIVITY
UhUb’s ever growing reports suite allows you to track activity throughout the organisation in real time providing you with the highest level of demonstrability and compliance for reviews, audits, quality measurements and legal proof.
CLIENT COMMUNITY
UhUb clients are a community and they develop what we do, as well as share hints and tips between each other. A unique thing in a competitive sector.
EASY TO USE, QUICK TO ENGAGE
Instantly usable with no user training required.
RECOGNITION & REWARD
Using UhUb earns points, enabling all staff throughout the company to be recognised & rewarded regardless of location, job title, or pay grade.
BRING YOUR OWN DEVICE
Learners can engage through the tech they love, their own phones.
LEARNER CERTIFICATION
With each module completed learners receive a UhUb Certificate of Training.
QUALITY TRAINING, CONSTANTLY UPDATED
Sharing industry recognised best practice and methods, all UhUb content is CPD Certified, and our Cleaning Training was City & Guilds Endorsed in 2019.
Voice-over instruction is clear and methodical and closed Captions assist both English learning and the hard of hearing.
ADAPTABLE EXPANDING CONTENT CATALOG
In addition to UhUb’s out of the box courses, we partner with 3rd parties to share a full range of learning such as EDI, Mental Health, Hospitality & Leadership.
Create your own content on any subject, develop and share customer centric learning and deploy Product & Equipment training to maximise understanding, productivity and investment.
All content can be shared with whole workforce, teams, clients, sites or individuals allowing a truly tailored experience.
CREATE & SHARE YOUR OWN CONTENT
Create & share your own training for anyone in the business at all levels, whether, Specialist Operatives, leadership, HQ or any subject you like. Maybe work with clients for client or site specific training, to add additional value to your services.
OFFLINE CONTENT WORKS TOO
Have content that’s not in digital format? Create ‘Offline Courses’ and Action lists, all with full reporting.
OUR CLIENT COMMUNITY
All our customers commit to a Whole-workforce solution.
If you cant see who you are looking for, then feel free to contact us and ask.
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CLIENT CASE STUDIES & COMMENTS
Below is a selection of case studies where each client has focused on what they feel are the important impacts of UhUb in their businesses and beyond.
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Enhanced
Training
(2022)
Positive Employee Impact
(2022)
Benefits to Business & Sector
(2022)
UhUb & Company DNA
(2022)
Surprise & Delight At UhUb'sLaunch Process and Benefits
(2022)
Below is a selection of short clips and comments from client interviews where each focused on what they felt was the important impacts of UhUb in their businesses.
OUR CONTENT PARTNERS
Below is a selection of some of our partners, who are specialists in their field, and who contribute to our Content Catalogue with their own training and information.
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If you would like to see your product range or other training shared through UhUb then do get in touch and we will be happy to share how.
Sustainability Guidance and Training
At UhUb we understand that cleaning businesses and therefore training needs are about more than just skills.
So, we have partnered with Just One to develop and share excellent content on Sustainability. The unique content is aimed at educating & informing all about sustainability at business and individual levels, with additional courses designed to help Just One clients with their sustainability journeys.
A Growing Range Product & Equipment Training
At UhUb we seek out the very best, but can share any training for any product or any piece of equipment from any manufacturer a client may use.
Our catalogue enables clients to select and deploy training at a click.
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Total Training through UhUb with more than just Cleaning skills
At UhUb we know that you are responsible for those you employ and deploy beyond wages, uniform and skills training. We understand that the skills required to fulfill a contract may not only be those of cleaning.
We are seeing a more diverse need for services that include a mix of site and service types that demand broader skills, and believe that all employers should care for and develop all employees in as many areas as possible both in work and out.
So, to help with that we have partnered with the top organisations in their fields such as MIND, iHASCO & Flow to bring Total Training to all your people.
EDI Training From Dr Jonathan Ashong-Lamptey Phd
We are thrilled to be sharing this unique training. Dr Jonathan creates straight forward, informative, conversational content that helps anyone discuss & understand Race, Racism and their relationship with it.
NEWS
To Read Through Our Editorials and News Items HERE
Or for our latest News, Comments and Client Feedback, please visit us on LinkedIn.
SUSTAINABILITY & PLANET
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NET ZERO AND BEYOND WITH ECOLOGI
Working with ECOLOGI across a range of initiatives enables us to ensure we operate as not just Net Zero but a firmly Climate Positive business.
TIME FOR ACTION hubTalks
At our Time For Action event at WWF we shared hubTalks from a range of speakers & thought leaders around their experiences and vision for sustainability in the sector.
MEASURING UhUb & HELPING THE CLIENT COMMUNITY
Working with JustOne to measure our own sustainability credentials and helping to spread the information individuals and businesses require to go Net Zero both in the working environment and in their personal lives by sharing Just One training with their clients, and non clients, who use UhUb.
OUR COMMITMENT & PROMISE
Our philosophy is that doing what we love shouldn't cost the earth, and we love doing UhUb. So why then would we be a negative impact on a world we love, a world that we will be leaving to the people we love.
We decided not to be!
As UhUb as is a Network structured business with a ‘work where you want’ approach, we felt this should not be difficult to do.
And guess what, it isn’t!
Also we want to encourage everyone we work with to consider the impact they have in all they do, whether holding a meeting, heating their homes, choosing a cleaning product, traveling abroad or dare we say, training their people.
Firstly, we had to lead by example so each year between 2019 to 2021 we were measured by Planet First for our Planet Mark Certification (the first App to do so), and each year any CO2 we used, plus a bit extra, was offset using the Carbon Footprint schemes. We are proud to have consistently held Planet Mark Certification 2019, 2020, 2021. Becoming Climate Positive in 2020, we committed to offsetting 10x Co2 we use each and every year.
This changed in 2022 when we moved to Just One for our measurements and Ecologi for our offsetting. To be clear this is not because Planet Mark were not good, they are excellent, very excellent, but for us Just One and Ecologi suited our small team structure a little more efficiently. Through Ecologi we can choose which projects to support and can demonstrate the effects of our offsetting arrangements, and in 2022 we upped offsetting to x26 the Co2 we use. Something we achieved for the first time in August 2022.
This means simply having UhUb in your supply chain is a positive for your own sustainability credentials.
Secondly, we have to spread the message, so in 2020 we started our ‘Time for Action’ series of events at WWF's Living Planet Centre, where 100 guests from around the Cleaning sector joined us and a range of speakers from UK and EU shared their stories and insights. Something we will continue (pandemics allowing) throughout the decade. With a 2 year hiatus due to Covid we are continuing the series of events in 2023.
It is our promise, not to just be Low Carbon, or even Carbon Neutral or Net Zero, but to being Climate POSITIVE. Not only that but we decided to take the view that CO2 offsetting should be considered 'profit margin'. We now offset 26 x our yearly usage annually.
It is our commitment to help others get there too, whether through our promotion of Just One, Ecologi and Planet Mark or with training, product choice, sharing information, or promoting tools for good.
Tomorrow is soon today, and that is why we are taking action now. Will you join us?
UhUb is focused on helping those that have been dealt a bad hand by circumstance. To this end UhUb is extremely happy to support a fantastic organisation that assist the Homeless and Ex-Homeless back into work and onto a better path. Click the logo to find out more.
This is not just a random act of charity, this is personal.
Our MD, Stephen, spent some time in his teenage years homeless, and because of his experience and the understanding he has of the effect homelessness can have on a person, he is determined to help others escape, and recover from the experience by making philanthropy in this area part of the UhUb DNA.
Stephen says; 'At UhUb we consider social benefit, like our Sustainability results, to be a 'profit margin', perhaps not always measureable but one that all businesses should be determined to create. We find our Client Community feel much the same. I am looking forward to a long relationship with HoSB and our Community helping where we can in their efforts. Whilst the process of considering where we can help has meant revisiting a time in my life I had put behind me, which is often difficult and painful, its worth it to help even just a handful of individuals back on their feet'.
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SOCIAL IMPACT
MEET THE TEAM
Stephen Goodall
Founder & MD
For me UhUb is about change and allowing clients to design, develop and deploy the change they want to see in training in the sector. I am really excited about the effect whole workforce training and engagement is having on the cleaning industry and how fast it's being adopted as the new UK standard. What started as a good idea has become a commitment to improve education delivery in the sector.
Paul Griffiths
Mobilisation & Support Manager
'It's great to be part of a solution which truly engages with employees by improving their opportunities, while helping our Clients deliver quality services. Closely collaborating with our Clients on improving all areas of UhUb is an exciting way to develop our offering'
Rebecca Lyon
Learning Content Manager
Being part of an ever changing and growing company such as UhUb means working here is a unique experience that allows me to be creative and flexible when developing content & solutions that solve our clients needs. Our collaborative approach means I can adopt a personal touch to making sure that each client & learner can get the best out of the platform.
Julian Baker,
Chief Technical Development Officer
UhUb is a new way of doing things. Taking advantage of current technology in a new way to embrace peoples love of phones and maximise BYOD is the way forward, and UhUb is at the forefront.
WHY WE CREATED UhUb?
The UhUb team is small.
We like it that way.
It enables us to respond quickly to new needs, ideas, directions in technology, or the market. But make no mistake we are not only techies.
Far from it!
We love our concept and we love the way we are able to deliver it, but some of our team are individuals that have spent 17+ years in the Cleaning and Facilities industry, experienced in both Development and Operations. Or in other words have been where you are, and understand the issues and challenges you face.
At UhUb we have the experience of selling, mobilising, merging, rationalising and transferring everything from single cleaner contracts, through to multi country TFM service provisions, and over the years we have become aware that the ‘Win’ and the ‘GP’ is often being achieved at the cost of the cleaners work life quality.
One day we got together and realised that we all had the same main frustration.
Training and Development always promised, usually paid for, but rarely properly delivered to cleaning staff in a way that truly makes a difference to them, the business, and the service user.
We wanted to change that.
Not just as a box ticking exercise during the tender process or a promise across the table, but in a way that genuinely allows workers to feel and do better, in quality of delivery, a feeling of social connection, and by providing real demonstrable recorded training that can lead to actual career progression.
So UhUb was developed, and with more than 700,000 cleaning staff in UK alone, most of whom are low paid, and often remote or lone workers, many even new to the UK, there was, and still is, a lot to do. We believe as key workers they all deserve better and that ‘better’ can be provided whilst also benefiting the company and certainly the service users.
In short it is our vision to improve the opportunities for those who often have few. All whilst benefiting the industry as a whole through information flow via Knowledge Networks and in a way which further strengthens opportunities to workers both within our Client Community and as part of our Social Impact ethos.
We know it’s been difficult to achieve these things until now. After all, how do you train and include an individual who works late night or early mornings on their own?
No problem, everyone is in the same boat, but now there is a new way...UhUb.
Training and Development always promised, usually paid for, but rarely properly delivered to cleaning staff in a way that truly makes a difference to them, the business, and the service user.
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CPD CERTIFIED CAREER COURSES
All UhUb Courses have been certified by CPD. This includes UhUb Cleaning Training, Supervisor Level 1 and Supervisor Level 2 as well as any course written & produced by UhUb.
WORKING WITH EHRC
UhUb is working with The Equality & Human Rights Commission to deliver information to cleaning staff on their rights to work within the UK and the Cleaning & FM sector.
ENDORSED BY CITY & GUILDS
The UhUb Cleaning Training content was fully endorsed by City & Guilds in 2019, with a rigorous line by line review of all lessons. C&G concluded that UhUb Cleaning Training is 'not only excellent basic training for all, but a foundation upon which further qualifications may be sough'.
APPROVED BY BSA
The British Services Association says “The Responsible Cleaner Scheme promotes the welfare and development of employees and the professionalisation of the industry itself....UhUb provide[s] tools for engagement and training which can bring practical benefits to cleaning suppliers and employees.”
GET IN TOUCH
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