However, a regularly cleaned carpet can actually help to reduce any allergens in your home. Laminate and hard wood floors regularly become dusty which can further irritate allergy suffers. Carpets on the other hand will trap any dust or soil allergens within the pile, enabling you to eliminate them with ease.

Laminate and hard wood floors are difficult to clean as they become dusty extremely quickly. While this type of flooring can look stylish in modern homes, it can also make rooms feel colder during winter months, and poses a slip and fall risk, particularly in homes with young children.

With a professional carpet cleaning machine you can have carpet throughout your home whilst also keeping your house healthy, happy and safe. Easy to use carpet cleaning devices are now available to rent or buy in hundreds of stores across the UK.

Commercial grade professional carpet cleaners were once expensive, heavy and bulky machines that were extremely difficult to use. New designs are much more affordable and powerful machines that feature one pass cleaning systems, meaning unlike older carpet cleaners, no back and forth motion is required. Using a high quality carpet cleaner will extend the lifetime of your carpet, saving you thousands of pounds and keeping your carpet looking brand new for years on end.

Modern professional carpet cleaning machines are compact designs with an easy one button operation. Extending nozzles enable you to clean all stairs and landing areas with ease. Their lightweight design allows you to move the machine across your carpet and let the vibrating brush action and powerful vacuum eliminate all in-ground dirt, brightening up your carpets.

Many carpet cleaning machine manufacturers are now producing a range of cleaning solutions, which are ideal for effectively removing carpet stains by hand. Traffic lane cleaners are perfect for eliminating any embedded dirt, grease, soil, tar or varnish stains that often appear in kitchens, hallways and doorways. The effective spot cleaner loosens the dirt and works as a brilliant pre-treatment before using your carpet cleaning machine. Many of these specially designed spot cleaners are pet friendly and can be used on woollen carpets.

Rent or buy your professional carpet cleaning machine today for fresh, clean carpets all year long.

Rug Doctor produce a range of unique carpet cleaning machines and solutions which eradicate dirt and allergens, providing a thorough deep clean and leaving your carpets feeling soft and looking brand new. Visit their website to rent or buy one of their professional carpet cleaning devices.

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The techie bit

We looked at everyone who has completed a 360 degree survey with us. This included those who used our Inspiring Leader competency framework (around 14,000 individuals) as well as those using their own competency frameworks. We sliced out the data from everyone who has completed a 360 year-on-year using the exact same competency framework and we looked at the ratings they received from those people who gave them feedback in both years (i.e. we excluded anyone who only rated them in one year). In this way we were looking at individuals rated by the same people, to the same competency framework, from one year to the next. We also only looked at clients who either used 360 within the context of a development programme and those who use it purely for appraisal – and asked the question, what happens with their 360 scores?

What did we find?

We noticed two trends in particular.

Year-on-year scores went up if an individual was completing their 360 as part of a wider organisational development programme and year-on-year scores went down if an individual was completing their 360 as part of an appraisal process.

What does this mean?

Where the scores have gone up in the context of a development programme it doesnt necessarily mean that performance has improved, just that scores have gone up and we just dont have the data to tell us if performance has improved. It could be that scores have gone up because people expect a developmental programme to help make someone a better manager, so they have given better scores year-on-year based on that assumption. However, our experience of working with clients would suggest that a developmental programme, particularly when it is dovetailed to respond to the needs identified through the 360 degree process, does positively impact an individuals performance and how they show up for their colleagues at work.

There is also an interesting phenomenon which occurs when using 360 for appraisal, which may contribute to scores going down year-on-year. We find that when 360 degree feedback is used for pay or bonus decisions colleagues tend to give more generous ratings. In the first year of such schemes individuals dont want to provide feedback that risks negatively impacting their colleagues pay, so the scores people receive are inflated and raters are nicer, overly positive, or purposefully un-negative with their feedback. We have spoken to people where they dont think highly of a colleague and yet they give them high scores, “because it wouldnt be fair to impact their pay”. As these schemes bed in and greater honesty is requested by HR and Leadership, the scores start to come down over time.

In summary, our experience of working with clients backs up the stats. Where 360 takes place in a developmental context it adds value to the individual and the organisation, in the best cases transforming individuals, leadership and culture. Where 360 is used for appraisal it does not appear to have as positive an outcome.

Talent Innovations partners with organisations wishing to develop their people, through the use of 360 and other development interventions. With an unique understanding of 360, development and transformation, Talent Innovations can support you to design a programme with real impact.

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