Corin recognises that the success of our business depends upon our people. We are committed to supporting your staff development, education and learning and you will be encouraged to meet your job-related training and development needs and maintain a Personal Development Plan that is reviewed regularly against team and individual objectives.

Seeing our people develop and grow to fulfil their true potential is one of the most rewarding of management experiences. We employ a variety of different talents across a range of different roles and encourage continuous learning and development. A range of training methods are available and include:

• coaching and mentoring

• on-the-job training

• job rotation and secondments

• in house/external technical and personal development training

• conferences and seminars

• professional qualifications and accreditation

Supervisory Development Programme

In 2005, 11 Corin staff took part in our Supervisory Development Programme. The programme included a total of seven modules and ran for 11 months. The modules included Leadership Skills, Communicating to Influence, Coaching and Developing Staff, Managing Performance and Difficult People and Managing Change. Both theoretical and practical aspects were included in the course and the programme concluded with presentations on a number of "change" projects.

The aim of the programme was to provide our

Supervisors with a range of skills, enabling them to manage their teams effectively and the programme also gave them the tools to move forward with change projects.

Support System

Effective networks were established as a support system for participants throughout the course programme. After each training module our Supervisors had to prepare an action plan and implement it into their day to day work activities and then report back to the group on how the plan had worked out. This helped them analyse their progress and implement their objectives into their everyday working environment.

Within their project groups they identified a business

specific project which they had to present on completion of the course and they were asked to focus on “people and their development in the work place”.

The projects are still ongoing and all the groups are implementing their plans and making good progress.

Building Relationships

The group felt that a big benefit of the programme was in developing new improved networks and working relationships across all areas of the business. Additionally participants gained an improved understanding of other teams priorities and objectives and this has had a positive effect in the work place.