Sally Neale, Chief People Officer at AvartoConnect discusses how their Learning and Development initiative brought opportunities for employees who may otherwise have been overlooked.
Everyone in your organisation deserves to access the learning and development they need to progress.
We created the The CEO Club to offer this support for anyone in the business who wanted to grow and develop in their role and in the business. CEO stands for coaching, empowerment and opportunity.
We created it for people who wanted to grow or develop in whatever way was good for them. Sometimes that means increasing their confidence, sometimes it means offering management or leadership skills. It’s open to anyone in the organisation but we were particularly thinking about our frontline workers who could feel they were overlooked or didn’t access our usual programmes.
The CEO Club offers a 12 month programme for 12 individuals. We match each of them with a senior manager to mentor them throughout the programme so the whole thing is personalised from the start.
While this programme certainly helped our people internally it also had to have an impact externally for them. I have a passion that we should be developing our peoples for their next job as well as the one they have so the programme is quite flexible and bespoke, keying into the kind of skills and interests they each have.
Learning and development can give anyone company knowledge and skills to do better.
