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elderly guests were welcomed to our offices for tea parties with cake, conversation and a performance from our Just choir, as a way to help combat the loneliness and isolation felt by many people in later life. We were also proud to sponsor Run Reigate in September, awarding the trophies and prizes for the fastest runners in the over 55 half marathon categories. The event was a great opportunity to increase our presence in the local community, promote our brand and demonstrate our purpose of helping people achieve a better later life (as outlined in our corporate social responsibility policy). We are committed to developing leaders and managers who inspire, energise and engage their teams around our purpose. During the year we have designed and delivered two flagship development programmes, Just Lead and Just Engage. These bespoke in-house modular programmes are based around insights into our leaders’ strengths and gaps, following a leadership benchmarking exercise last year. The programmes draw on contemporary thinking and practice and comprise face-to-face workshops, group and individual coaching sessions, videos, articles and discussion forums to enable collaboration and learning. We complement these programmes with sessions from external speakers on topics such as inclusive leadership, influence and impact and resilience. In addition, a number of our people managers are taking part in a manager Level 5 apprenticeship standard which leads to chartered manager status. Participants will develop skills in operational management, project management, leading people, building relationships and managing self. Our commitment to the growth and development of our people is reflected in our Group training and competence policy. A new approach to career planning We are committed to supporting the development of every employee at Just, either through in-role experience, coaching, mentoring, online learning or face-to-face training. In line with this focus, we launched a new career framework in 2019 which provides a map of potential career paths. This helps us to offer opportunities for personal growth and career development to the right groups of people at the right stage of their career. At the end of the year we were also pleased to start working with LinkedIn Learning, a new e-learning platform which will give our people the resources, autonomy and ownership to grow their own skills and advance their development at Just. GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT Investing in our people
I feel so proud to have been part of Just Walk. It was challenging, but so rewarding
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