Good News Story — Hunter Water and Forsythes Training.
Hunter Water have formed a strong partnership with Forsythes Training in 2015 to offer a Leadership Program to 107 leaders across all operational and corporate business areas.
The Smart and Skilled Program has enabled Hunter Water to deliver this opportunity to upskill, accredit and grow various levels of leaders; strengthening leadership experience and capability across Hunter Water, enabling leaders to achieve qualifications in Certificate IV and Diploma in Leadership and Management.
An array of feedback has been given by some of the students, from leaders who oversee maintenance crews, to leaders in corporate business related areas, highlighting that the program has provided leadership tools and techniques to have difficult conversations and reinforce feedback to teams, along with raising critical business improvement ideas.
The Smart and Skilled benefits have enabled a large number of leaders from Hunter Water to benefit from experiencing a program which engaged Executive and Senior Leadership presence and involvement; aligning with Hunter Water’s Leadership Framework and strategic priorities.
The opportunity to access Smart and Skilled funding was an enormous benefit as we truly value training our people but like many organisations are under huge cost pressures as we work towards our productivity challenges.
We hope to continue to work with Training Services and Forsythes training to develop our people into the future.