What are companies doing with regards to 'Personal Growth'

Employees benefit from Structured Training Pathways, with chefs having extended training programmes to replace external recruitment, building expertise. Managers participate in the daily Management Mind Gym workshops and can pursue external qualifications like ILM, ensuring staff gain expertise and strengthening retention through clear advancement routes.

The company is committed to being a learning organisation, strengthening retention and building talent pipelines. They offer clear Professional Development Pathways and formal Learning and Development Opportunities, including training and apprenticeships, which help employees feel more capable, confident, and connected to their purpose.

The company supports development by listening to employees' interests and providing a management development programme for managers, including workshops on employment law and peer networking. They also recently created a management forum, allowing managers to take a lead by collaboratively solving business challenges and sharing insights.

Portal Training supports continuous professional development, ensuring employees complete specific amounts of CPD per annum to stretch skills. Learning needs are identified during bi-annual performance and wellbeing reviews. This fluid approach facilitates employee promotion and job changes, which positively impacts the retention of skilled workers throughout the organisation.

The Career Progression Framework provides a career development roadmap with clear competencies, resulting in faster promotions at junior levels and a reduced turnover rate of 13.5%. The organisation further supports growth through regular company-wide training and individual financial support for learning & development.

Staff development is supported through personalised training plans, mentorship, and the unique development plan SKILL which ensures a clear progression route for every engineer. External CPD sessions and the Degree Apprenticeship Programme demonstrate Davies Partnership’s dedication to continuous learning.

The comprehensive Learning and Development framework provides clear career progression pathways, increasing employee motivation and engagement by showing they are invested in. This framework includes regular individual development planning sessions and funded professional qualifications (e.g., MBAs, RICS, CIPD), strengthening the talent pipeline for internal promotion and succession planning.

Westward Housing supports colleagues in reaching their full potential through initiatives like internal secondments and job shadowing. The 'Leaders of the future' programme provides coaching and mentoring, while professional qualifications and external training are supported with paid memberships and a qualification bonus for compliance courses.

The Career Ascent programme at Alconex is designed to help employees achieve their career aspirations by combining technical, professional, and leadership development. The organisation also provide transition coaching for all new hires and offer mentoring and shadowing opportunities, which has resulted in no voluntary leavers in the past 12 months.

RE:GEN Group actively invests in its people's development through dedicated programmes like the bespoke leadership programmes for senior leaders and the "Leading from the Middle" course for managers. The company-wide mentoring programme, which is not tied to hierarchy, further encourages learning and growth at all levels, benefitting both individuals and the organisation.