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As an ever-growing business with an expanding workforce, we manage a lot of courses, keeping
track on a wide range of expiry dates and retraining requirements. Every time one of our businesses
wins a new contract, Train With Us works with the mobilisation team to provide information about
how much training will be needed for the new project so a new training matrix and course profile can
be generated.
We currently have 275 apprentices in the business, with many other individuals either training
for a promotion or engaged in a trainee position in which they can gain skills
under supervision.
Combined with the fact that most of our operating businesses run their own Graduate
Training Schemes, and still more manage contract-based mentorship programmes to help
encourage and foster the next generation of talent, it starts to become clear how our Group is
a positive force for providing training and opportunity across the communities in
which we operate.
Building Talent
Our talent and recognition programme
Our people are our greatest resource, and we have identified the
recognition and development of emerging talent as one of our
highest priorities. We began our Building Talent programme in
January, which identified the 300 of our most promising people
from across our business and mapped their potential onto a talent map matrix to identify
who might be ready for promotion, who might need training and who should be targeted for
specific encouragement.
Selected candidates from this exercise have been invited to complete interviews and
psychometric testing to corroborate the opinions of their line managers, helping us to uncover
tomorrow’s managers from a pool of people who may not have considered promotion into
more demanding roles without being invited to do so.
We have already been able to promote several people as a result of this process. The plan
is to develop this programme to a wider group of people as an on-going process.
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