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OVER 15,000 HOURS OF LEARNING In parallel to our talent acquisition strategy, during 2024 we increased our focus on growing our own talent within the organisation.
Shortlisted for a Learning and Development award at the Personnel Today awards, we have continued to roll out our ‘Power Up’ for people managers. This programme focuses on supporting managers to lead high performing, engaged and inclusive teams, where people feel a strong sense of belonging. We’ve run modules on key skills including feedback, coaching, career conversations, inclusive leadership and planning and prioritising. Feedback from participants has been exceptional, with an average 92% of survey respondents saying that they would recommend the content to their colleagues. The Power Up programme has been a valuable resource. The Leading High Performing teams module gave me a great insight into ‘defining a purpose’ and led to us developing a team charter and best practice, and The Communicator module gave me the skills needed to share impactful feedback with my team.” Attendee comment Power Up for People Managers Following the success of this programme, we launched a new learning offering for all colleagues, branded ‘Power Up Your Career’. This includes virtual and in-person workshops on a range of topics, such as financial industry awareness, communicating with impact, influencing, business partnering and project management. This forms part of our strategy to develop talent at different levels of the organisation. Again, feedback on the sessions has been excellent, with an average 97% of survey respondents saying that they would recommend the workshops to their colleagues.
I found the session really useful and enjoyed the group discussions… some really useful tips and structures shared... lots of interaction and shared
experiences.” Attendee comment Power Up Your Career
Supporting this, we also ran two ‘Learning at Work’ weeks with virtual and in-person sessions across all our offices. We had more than 1,600 sign-ups to over 25 sessions across the two weeks, including external speakers on topics such as developing a growth mindset through to colleague-led talks on topics around AI and future capabilities. Feedback from participants has been excellent with an average 95% of survey respondents saying that they would recommend the session they attended to their colleagues.
Very informative and I definitely learned new things…”
Attendee comment Learning at Work Week
2024 saw us hire our largest ever graduate cohort (over 20 in both 2023 and 2024), providing a structured career and development programme for these early career colleagues. This includes rotations, apprenticeships leading to professional qualifications, and an 18-month programme focused on core soft skills. In addition to these in-house programmes, we provide other learning and development opportunities, including full access to LinkedIn Learning, apprenticeship programmes (BPP), development programmes (partnering with Corndel for level 5 & 7 and the Chartered Insurance Institute), external training and professional qualifications in areas like actuarial, finance and technology.
We support positive wellbeing through a flexible approach of company funded and employee selected options. Delivered through our Just Thrive programme, an example of one of our key activities was promoting World Wellbeing Week in June. This included:
A brilliant experience working at Just As part of setting our sights on Just becoming the best place to work in financial services, we have continued to focus on delivering a brilliant employee experience. This comes together in our EVP – Employee Value Proposition – which articulates the ‘deal’ between our employees and Just as an employer.
• In-office ‘know your numbers’ health assessments delivered by AXA for awareness around cholesterol, blood pressure, BMI, height/weight and more, attended by over 90 colleagues. • Women’s health and hormones talk, men’s health webinar, each hosted by our Women’s and Men’s networks. • Benefits webinars from some of our benefit providers, including Level Payroll Saving, My Gym Discounts, My Care Hub, Cycle to Work, EAP and Tooth Fairy. We have continued to promote our range of physical, mental and financial wellbeing support including our mental health webinars, Headspace app, virtual yoga sessions, menopause support and running or football get togethers. Our mental health first aiders provide a confidential safe space where our people can be listened to, heard and supported via signposting to other resources as necessary. In addition, our Menopause Cafés, hosted by our Menopause Champions, support discussion, sharing advice and resources, asking questions, or simply listening.
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