It’s that time again! Another new addition to the Connect Three team, so another episode in our ‘Connection Series’. Each post in the series shines the spotlight on the work of a member of the Connect Three team, and hopefully gives you a little insight into what we do, and how we can help you. Next in the interview hotseat is Samantha Gaughan
Hi Sam, welcome to the team! Let’s start with an easy one, what’s your role at Connect Three and what do you do?
My role as Employee Experience / Learning Consultant is a very exciting dual role.
As our Employee Experience specialist, I will be implementing and adopting best practices across the core and wider team to ensure we remain a people first employer. This includes measuring and improving employee engagement, wellbeing, sustainability, and satisfaction regularly. In a nutshell Employee experience is about creating a great work environment for people and helping them to be their best.
As a learning consultant I also support our delivery team in designing and delivering management development training courses and conduct skills development analysis, programme evaluation and creating reports for our clients.
Wow! Sounds like we’ll be keeping you busy! With all of that going on, what has been your or favourite moment in Connect Three so far?
My favourite moment would be our Halloween themed quarterly team update. We got the whole team together for an afternoon to celebrate successes and talk about future projects in the pipeline. It was a fun filled action packed event where we got to have some fun with Halloween quizzes, fancy dress competition and apple bobbing.
It was so much fun – even if I was robbed in the costume competition…anyway, tell us, what are you reading right now?
I’m not much of a reader (unless on holiday and child free) so If I’m not busy with the kids, I like to sit down and watch a good psychological thriller. I’ve just finished The Deceived’ on Netflix ‘a 4-part psychological thriller lots of twists and turns that kept me gripped and guessing throughout the series.
Oh, love a recommendation – final question, what is the boldest thing you’ve ever done?
It’s an interesting one. If anyone ever remembers the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games opening ceremony, they will remember what some would describe as the cringeworthy, nostalgic introduction that included John Barrowman and Karen Dunbar, I was in there too. I was a backing singer for Karen, played a part in capturing ‘Nessie’ and held a very heavy placard showcasing some of the finest things about Glasgow. All that in front of 40,000 people and a TV audience of around 9 million viewers, it was such a fun experience.
What?! That’s crazy! Well, that is definitely bold! Thanks Sam, I’m sure we’ll be hearing from you on the blog again soon!