Learning & Development Business Partner Review

I help to train and develop people in my client group. This can be having career conversations with people, working out a development plan to help them progress and to also train them in certain areas where they need help. I create content for our digital platform by creating e-learning, videos and document to help get the messages across for the task people need help with. I also write the apprenticeship magazine for the company, get involved with company projects and take part in meeting to help organise events or learning days. Im a insight discovery practitioner so run days to help people be more self aware and soon i shall be using my coaching skills to coach people within the business.

Yes during the coaching course i have learnt alot about emotional intelligence, limiting belief and questioning techniques, this helps my role at work when speaking with my client group to understand their needs and development that help form their performance plans. At work i also use alot of technology and have upskilled myself on creating cartoons, videos and elearning to best get a message out to people in a fun, interesting and exciting way.

I have really enjoyed the theory days where we learn alot more about ourselves and putting into practice the coaching questioning techniques. I like practising the coaching sessions with my group as we are all learing and its good experience befoe the real thing. I have also really enjoyed getting back to writing essays as i havent done this for years and its given me the time to research and really study the subject to enable my essays to flow.

Its been really well organised, i had the map of what the next year would look like at the start of the course and in month 1 we got all dates for the entire year for the teahing days, this way its easy to plan around them and understand whats needed of me and by when. I have also enjoyed using the onefile portal which is easy to use and clear for what assignement is have and when they are due, its also really great to see how far ive come on the progress dial. We are encouraged to contact our tutor when we need and its very open and helpful to speak with them.

I have been really fortunate to be able to plan my days and weeks so that i can study at work and am encouraged to use work time to complete essays and learning. The company is also championing a coaching culture so are excited for when i can start coaching people in the business already identifying potential coachees. The business is very supportive and encouraging by shouting about the courses and celebrating apprenticship success with categories in our awards days dedicated to them and a magazine dedicated to them letting others know the opprotunities. We also have whole training programmes that work alongside apprenticeships to encourage learners to get the most out of them and learn even more from the L&D team along the way.

We have calls every month from our ttor to check in and see where we are up to in our assignements. we have training days planned to help us write the esseays and carry out tasks just before they are set so we feel supported and knowledgeable when completing them. We also practice our coaching out on each other in these sessions making great network connections and excouraged to carry on the conversations offline with the group.

This course is very much made for my role right now as e have changed how we do things in the L&D department and we are trying to take a more coaching approach as opposed to previous times. the course is helping me to understand more about what a team needs and getting deeper to what the root of the situation in for the teams to be able to offer them the most we can at the right time in the comapany. its helping me slow down and be less reative but more proactive.

Yes there are activities such as walking, hiking, running and swimming to take part in and meet new people for the alzehmers charity, we can also take part in company forums called One Team talks to help improve the company. We have a sustainability group called green force to help drive our CSR responsibilities and in the past people have been litter picking on the beach during work hours.

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I believe we have good opportunities for development and career aspirations to come true. We encourage staff to learn and have an online learning platform for people to use when studying. We offer recognition schemes such as apprieciation cheques, award days for collegues in various categories to win an expences paid holiday. We also offer flexible working hours dependant on role.

get involved straight away with development if you want to go far in the company. Put yourself out there to network and work hard as it does get rewarded and seen. If you are applying show passion for the industry and come across as wanting to enjoy the job as well as hard working.