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Learning and development
Underpinning our corporate values, our four
business divisions have their own employee
values. These behavioural frameworks are
central to who they are and how they operate,
playing an important role in building teams
and strengthening performance.
Our business is committed to learning and
development to ensure everyone has the
required skills and knowledge to thrive in their
current role as well as building readiness for the
capabilities we are likely to need in the future.
At Barr Soft Drinks, which comprises our
largest group of colleagues, employee values
are embodied by the Barr Behaviours. Created
by our own people they represent what is
important to a business that has been
successful for over a century – Being Brilliant,
Always Learning, Results Driven and
Relationships Matter.
For the more recent additions to the A.G. BARR
Group – FUNKIN, MOMA and Boost – their
employee values are more reflective of the
entrepreneurial and agile nature of their
businesses, which we believe are important
characteristics to retain and nurture.
From recruiting new employees to developing
existing teams, these employee values support
how our teams work together to enhance
performance and are fundamental to our success.
For more information on our employee values
visit our website at agbarr.co.uk
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Employee values
We have developed a Company-wide learning
culture where all colleagues are encouraged
and enabled to take ownership of their
performance and drive their own development
and careers. How colleagues learn and develop
can vary and we therefore ensure that we
provide a blended learning experience
whenever possible.
In recognition of our commitment to building
colleague confidence and competence we have
grown our learning and development team over
the past 12 months. The ever-changing and
volatile external landscape make reskilling and
upskilling more important than ever before. We
recognise the importance of skilled employees,
exceptional leaders and knowledge – all vital
to our ongoing commercial success. As such,
in addition to our regular technical and
compliance based training, we have shaped
progressive development programmes to
accelerate the development of key colleague
populations. We are pleased to be in a position
to deliver much of this development in-house
which we believe will increase the likelihood
of the development being embedded across
our organisation for the long term.
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Careers Week
Almost 170 of our people participated
in our new Careers Week initiative, an
opportunity to learn more about career
planning and development. Covering
areas such as career planning,
apprenticeships, and our internal
e-learning catalogue, this will now
become an annual event as part of our
learning and engagement calendar.
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