We want to create a culture that promotes diversity, inclusion and mutual respect, attracting and retaining the best talent we can. We’re also investing to develop the leadership and technical skills of our people, and promoting an active and health culture. We believe that business performance is influenced significantly by the skills, behaviour and attitude of our people. To build great teams we invest in high quality, accredited training and state-of-the-art training centres and workspaces.
Professional development and training
We have a wide variety of development and training programmes for both existing and future employees, including our Advanced Apprenticeship Scheme, Graduate Scheme, leadership skills programmes, coaching and eLearning resources.
The talent of today and tomorrow
We aim to attract as many talented individuals to join our Company as possible. We know today's talent will become the backbone of the future. We continue to provide opportunities for young people in our new entrant programmes (Advanced Apprenticeship Scheme, Graduate Scheme, MSc, and Conversion Engineering programmes).
Online learning
We are constantly seeking new ways to help increase the management competence of our people, and in 2010/11 we introduced the NRLearning Portal, a new eLearning resource for all employees. This contains around 100 online modules covering topics such as communicating with confidence, project management fundamentals, and building and leading teams.
Our new National Centre
Our new National Centre workspace in Milton Keynes opens in 2012, bringing together a number of our national teams with the aim of helping us deliver a better service to our customers.
Work on the building has continued throughout 2010/11. The building has been designed to help inspire better ways of working, increase teamwork and stimulate cultural change and will be a best practice example of sustainability in action.
Promise and principles
In 2009, we launched our Promise and Management Principles. The Promise is Network Rail’s statement of intent so all employees can work together towards a common purpose. The Management Principles are the ways by which this is to be achieved.
During 2010/11, further steps have been taken to embed the Promise and its Management Principles into employees’ work practices and now they form part of the employee performance review process.