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United Biscuits

United Biscuits is committed to creating a learning culture, encouraging innovation in the workplace.
TD Waterhouse

At TD Waterhouse, we recognise that our greatest asset is the people we work with. So we have developed a strategy that is designed to attract, train and retain the best people. Learning and Development dovetails into everything that we do, and is delivered to the highest standards. It is more than just training to powerpoint but a way to develop skills through coaching and mentoring and ensure employees feel a part of the team through other activities, such as CSR.
Southern Railway

Southern Railway is committed to creating a learning culture, encouraging innovation in the workplace.
Sodexo

Within the business, Sodexo’s employees need to be able to at times produce and at others understand both numerical data and also the written word. Currently the organisation has examples of charges incurred as a result of incorrect detail contained within written proposals or inaccurate figures. To increase profitability and employee satisfaction, this situation has to be improved across the business, through encouraging and developing learning and skills.
Scottish & Southern Energy

SSE is committed to creating a learning culture, encouraging innovation in the workplace.
Royal Mail

Royal Mail is committed to creating a learning culture, encouraging innovation in the workplace.
Paver Smith

Paver Smith has embedded learning as part of the agency’s culture - exploiting the obvious competitive advantage of having skilled and motivated staff. Being able to talk about their training infrastructure and how that improves outputs for clients has helped them with new business, as well as offering career development opportunities to staff.
Npower

Npower offers a range of vocational courses to support professional development, additionally delivering a number of ‘fun’ taster sessions during Adult Learners week , including 5 minute Massage Sessions - Indian head massage & acupressure; Camera Workshops - improve your photography skills (bring your camera); Sign Language - 1 hr taster sessions; Languages - conversational Spanish and Italian, webpage creation and Salsa. If employees have a particular interest, hobby or ambition that npower do not currently offer they are encouraged to get in touch with the Learning Resource managers as the first step in getting a learning activity up and running on site.
NEC

NEC Group is passionate about helping employees to achieve their potential.
NEC Group’s Learning solutions operate on a group wide level, and with outstanding technical training programmes taking place in different operational and front line business areas.
To ensure live events are brought to life, the service and behaviours of their people are critical parts of NEC’s development activity.

NEC is also a flagship employer in the West Midlands region - their Chief Executive chairs both the West Midlands Employment and Skills Board and the Solihull Chamber of Commerce, therefore attracting the best talent is really important to the company.
Microsoft

Microsoft encourages a culture of learning and development including Career Planning, Mentoring, Coaching, On the Job development, Career Growth and Development planning, Microsoft UK Learning Centre, and 360 degree feedback.
Merseytravel

Merseytravel encourages a true learning culture throughout the organisation, keeping levels of morale and motivation high. Learning for pleasure and for fun with their friends and colleagues is often an employees first opportunity to dip their “toe in the water” which leads on to undertaking NVQs, and skills for life.
McDonald’s Restaurants

McDonald’s philosophy for junior staff is the same as it is for the executive team – they believe passionately in career long learning – “from crew room to boardroom”.
McDonalds has a comprehensive roadmap of development from the moment that you step into the restaurant working your first part-time job. At all levels they combine functional and operational training with softer skills, such as hospitality and team working. At the restaurant level, they use shoulder-to-shoulder training combined with learning workbooks and in-store classes.
Marshalls

Introducing a learning culture where people seek to broaden their skills has led to a number of innovative ideas by employees that have produced significant cost savings for the business. Changing culture, and training, has enabled employees to feel valued, and as a result Marshalls has an extremely low turnover of staff and everyone knows that they will be helped and supported through their career.
Incommunities

Incommunities menu of opportunities is diverse and they support a wide range of ways to learn, from traditional courses, qualifications, peer coaching, volunteering, toolbox talks, e-learning and regular information sessions. By investing in their people and working towards a learning culture, Incommunities have helped to drive improvements in performance.
Google

Google is committed to ensuring that employees (known as ‘Googlers’) are ‘able to keep creating, inventing, finding solutions, breaking boundaries, and realising new technologies we never imagined possible’. The work environment at Google is designed to challenge and engage employees, and includes innovative and fun activities designed to encourage staff to meet, interact and work as a team.
Ginsters

Ginsters offers regular events to promote learning through their Samworth Academy. The business recently encouraged employees to share their own passions with fellow colleagues. This resulted in family history research , guitar lessons and about 40 Ginsters employees taking to Dartmoor to try letter-boxing for the first time.
First

First is committed to creating a learning culture, encouraging innovation in the workplace.
Clugston Group Ltd

Clugston Group Ltd is committed to creating a learning culture, encouraging innovation in the workplace.
CEMEX UK

CEMEX UK is committed to creating a learning culture, encouraging innovation in the workplace.
Carillion

Carillion actively encourages and supports its people to gain the skills and qualifications that will support their future employability and meet the needs of the business in support of the organisations strategic people objective to “attract, develop and retain excellent people by becoming an employer of choice”.
C4

C4 is committed to creating a learning culture, encouraging innovation in the workplace.
Business in the Community

Promotion of a learning culture helps to enhance the contributions of individuals and teams to BITC’s success. BITC invests in the learning and development of its staff:

• To ensure it has a skilled and qualified workforce to meet its needs now and in the future;
• To demonstrate to its member companies that it “walks the talk” in promoting responsible behaviour toward employees.
BT

BT is committed to creating a learning culture, encouraging innovation in the workplace.
Barclays

Barclays Bank Plc has established a thriving culture of corporate responsibility and recognises the positive impact that investment in local communities brings to the individuals in those communities and to their workforce. Their commitment to making a difference beyond giving money provides a range of exciting opportunities for staff to improve their skills and get involved with issues that they care passionately about.