The programme is already achieving much of what we hoped it would:

• The chance for employees to benchmark and improve on skills.
• A safe, enjoyable and collaborative learning environment.
• Training that will support us all through growth and change.
• A learning experience that will support us in our desire to develop and create learning opportunities for our teams.
• Raising self-awareness to support us all through learning and change.
• Accessible learning that doesn’t take up too much time encouraging employees to take part.
• A diverse range of employees attending from different departments and disciplines including 22 nationalities at Calnex Linlithgow alone.
• More people connecting and learning with employees from different areas of the business.

Testimonials

“The Power Skills has been a great experience. […] The skills learnt during these sessions have provided me with more awareness and confidence when communicating and collaborating as part of a multicultural team at Calnex.”

Rebecca Moffett

“The sessions provide an excellent opportunity to reflect on current ways of working. I found there was always at least one useful concept or insight that can be applied immediately.”

Steven Alcock

“I really enjoyed the power skill sessions […] they definitely got me thinking about my overall interaction with different people and how I could make more consideration for how other people think and work.”

Andrea Maguire

“Power Skills courses have been a nudge in the side to remind one-self to broaden their horizon. It is very easy to think that people see things as we do. Most course content would challenge that but nowhere near as much as the discussions ensuing between participants. The foray into unconscious bias was particularly interesting to me.”

Sébastien Saury

“I took the opportunity to sign up for all of the Power Skills courses that were being offered […] a good number of them explored topics that I had never considered before or offered a different way of thinking about the topics. They were all presented in a fun and interactive manner.”

Paul McGee

"These sessions have been far more valuable than we ever could have realised. From the outset Connect Three were instrumental in helping us take the right approach for this important area of learning. It’s often hard to know where to start for something so significant so it was great to take it right back to the fundamentals to help us understand ourselves as humans first and foremost, and the things can influence our emotions, behaviours and ultimately the way we interact with one another.
"During the sessions, we were able to take the time to look inward as individuals and as teams, to think about the space we create for one another and how we can truly live and breathe our values. We have always been fully invested in creating values which we believe in and actually mean something.
"So many company values are on a list somewhere and get forgotten about and that is something we’ve always worked hard to avoid at MadeBrave. From getting the values up on the walls or bringing them to life through song and artist collaborations, our aim has always been to make sure that our team believes in them and can see and feel them in action.
"During these sessions, we quickly realised that to ask our team to truly ‘Be Their Weird Self’ or to operate as ‘Amigos without Egos’ and ‘Be Brave’ we have to create an environment that enables and proactively champions the behaviours that facilitate these values. To truly create that sense of belonging and inclusion, which then promotes equality and facilitates diversity – we have to start by understanding ourselves."