John Henry COMMUNICA Issue Four | Page 50

COMMUNICA | Issue Four TRAINING TIME COMMUNICA explores how an innovative new digital training platform will help to develop a new generation of colleagues’ skills sets at John Henry Group. Editorial and photographic by: Ofori Canacoo I nvestment can be a bit of a risky business; there’s a cost to it and whether that cost is, money, time, effort or energy, you hope that the return is beneficial to you. One of the things that can encompass a lot of these concerns, is the topic of training. The benefits of company training are that the reward can be invaluable but there’s a risk that sometimes you invest heavily in your people and the skills set you’ve invested in goes with them. For John Henry Group, the company has taken on the philosophy of investing in its employees and the return on this ‘investment’ is realised by increased job satisfaction, colleague loyalty, a lower turnover of employees, amplified work ethic and effort and commitment to the business. As a business, John Henry Group’s training strategy has evolved over the past two years to adhere to the growth that the company is currently experiencing. You’ll have already read in Mark Heraghty’s article earlier in this issue, in relation to the skills gap in the civil engineeringr market sector - so John Henry Group has designed a new integrated digital and personnel training programme to invest in its people and future our colleagues’ skills sets. 50 |