What we offer regularly
All colleagues
Personal and professional growth should be exciting, fulfilling, accessible and impactful. We never stop learning and that’s why we have designed a range of Learning and Development offerings to help you grow, upskill, and achieve your career aspirations – whether you're looking to enhance your leadership capabilities, sharpen your technical skills, or build your confidence.
Ready to discover something new and develop your skills? Book onto your session now.
Remember, learning doesn’t just happen in a classroom – it happens with every experience, every conversation, and every challenge you take on.
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Get the low-down on who we are as a business. Discover our values, purpose and ambition. Learn what we do and where and get to know the people who make it all happen. Also, spend some time with our People Operations team....
“It was very informative. It covered a wide range of topics in clear, bitesize sections and very good mixture of presentation, videos and interactive parts.”
Debbie M
“Wow what a session! L&D have managed to craft a fun interactive session that is memorable and exciting. Highly recommend!”
Delivered by: L&D and People Relations
Duration: 2.5 hours
Format: Face to face or webinar
Recommended for: New starters, graduates, apprentices, work experience
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Hear from our engaging guest speakers
Help to improve your skills and confidence at work, build on your relationships with others, and expand your knowledge with continuous learning.
Hear from guest speakers who will speak about their own career successes, trials, challenges and learnings –including the new skills and learning opportunities that they picked up along the way.
Delivered by: L&D and special guest
Duration: 1 hour
Format: Webinar
Recommended for: Everyone
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“I found the session very engaging and informative and learnt a lot about AI from Bjoern which I found the content so interesting! Love the hour long bitesizes.”
“Used accessible, inclusive language that was understandable by all, which is rare or a topic considered complex.”
Nick H
Chloe M
At Drax, we are committed to building a fair, safe, and inclusive working environment, where everyone has the tools to do their best work and feel they belong.
To build a culture that encourages the safety, inclusion, and fairness of our ambitions, we need make it part of how we work – no matter our location. Our new suite of learning will help you along on your inclusion journey.
Psychological safety Impacting inclusion
In this session, you'll discover practical strategies to foster a more inclusive environment where everyone feels valued and respected. We'll explore how your actions and attitudes can contribute to a culture of belonging, and provide you with the tools to bring this to life. Join us to learn how you can make a meaningful difference.
Gain a practical understanding of what psychological safety means and how it impacts our workplace culture. We'll delve into your influence on individuals and the broader team dynamics, helping you recognise actionable steps to foster psychological safety within your teams and throughout Drax. Join us to learn how you can create a supportive and secure environment where everyone feels empowered to contribute and thrive.
Delivered by: L&D
Duration: 2 hours
Format: Webinar
Recommended for: Everyone
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Delivered by: L&D
Duration: 2 hours
Format: Webinar
Recommended for: Everyone
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The power to see yourself as others see you
Insights Discovery is our transformational experience. It brings psychology to life in an accessible, practical model that shows people how understanding themselves better can make a positive difference in the workplace and beyond. The 4 colours help individuals learn more about their preferred behaviours, the strengths they bring and the challenges they’re likely to face.
Delivered by: L&D
Duration: 3 hours
Format: Webinar
Recommended for: Everyone
“It helped me better understand other people ways of working. Why certain people within team do things differently. It was very beneficial to identify people by they colours as I can now implement different tools when having conversation with them. But it also gave me a better understanding of myself”.
Monika W
Insights: Team discovery
For teams who are newly formed or have had significant change. All colleagues will receive a new profile and a Team Wheel. These sessions are facilitated by the L&D team and are bookable on request.
Insights: Self aware leader
For leadership teams across the business who are looking for more insight into their leadership skills and development opportunities. All colleagues attending will receive a Transformational Leadership profile. These sessions are facilitated by the Leadership Development team and are bookable on request.
Insights: Thriving through change
This Insights workshop helps us understand our emotional responses to change. Leveraging the Insights Discovery Personal Profile, we learn to raise our awareness and resilience to not only survive change, but to thrive through it.
Insights: Team culture
This workshop helps teams asses their perception of current team culture. It helps identify where the team may be effective, and where there may be gaps. Delegates will need to have completed a Personal Profile.
Insights: Manager lead activities
A selection of activities that can be led by individual team management and leadership teams. People Development will provide the activities and ensure that you are comfortable delivering to your team.
Insights: Resilience
Using the Insights Discovery Personal Profile, this session is designed to give a useful overview of resilience with sufficient depth that participants can reflect on their own experience against the resilience checklist and leave the session with some practical tips about strengthening their own resilience levels.
Insights: Effective communication
Using the Insights Discovery Personal Profile this facilitated exercise looks into participant do’s and don’ts when it comes to individual communication preferences. This helps teams to work together more collaboratively with an understanding of to communicate to get the best out of each other.
Insights: Value to team
This facilitated activity uses the Insights Profile to explore the individual value that each member brings to a team. This is an opportunity for participants to share their value with a view to understanding individual strengths and preferences.
What we offer on request
All colleagues
Creatively explore the concept of producing a winning PDP. You will understand the importance of a growth mindset, recognise your drivers and motivators and provide some techniques to help you step out of your fear zone and into the learning zone.
Delivered by: L&D
Duration: 1-2 hours
Format: Face to face or webinar
Recommended for: New or experienced people managers
“I liked the topics and the learning environment created by the trainer and delegates. The trainer was engaging with great activities to confirm the learning”.
'Easy to digest and lots of content and great open and honest delivery”.
Anne K
Gav K
Create lasting impressions on to achieve your goals and gain support for your ideas.
We have brought together key elements to support you, in your career and how you can impact your role. There will be elements around - Empowerment & Being Brilliant, Emotional Intelligence, Influencing and your Personal Brand. We will also explore the 'Imposter Syndrome' and the 'Chimp Paradox’.
Delivered by: L&D
Duration: 5.5 hours over 2 days
Format: Face to face
Recommended for: Everyone
“Engaging, stimulating, thoughtprovoking, relevant, accessible and immediately applicable.”
“'It was a very insightful and engaging couple of sessions, it didn't feel like a course because it was very open and it offered the opportunity to reflect. Fundamentally, showing the value in self reflection.”
Scott G
Steve R
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Building self-belief while getting a grip on your imposter syndrome, understanding assertiveness and when to use it.
Take time to understand your confidence and where we might create barriers for ourselves. We address the imposter syndrome and understand why it might appear. Assertiveness is the confident and direct expression of your thoughts, feelings, and needs while also acknowledging and maintaining respect for others. Let's learn together how to become more assertive.
Delivered by: L&D
Duration: 1.5-2 hours
Format: Face to face or webinar
Recommended for: Teams/Departments
I enjoyed the interactive sessions, especially the confidence auction activity. I felt like this helped to provide a chill atmosphere whilst also making us realise what is most important for us and if we had to pick only one (or a couple) of things, what would be our top goals and why.
Kezia B
A Resilience and Growth mindset are essential skills for overcoming challenges, adapting to change, and pursuing goals.
This session will increase your knowledge of personal resilience and key contributing factors. Providing tools to develop these skills and boost your confidence and motivation to aid a growth mindset.
'I thought Sarah delivered the course in a really great and fun manner. The course felt really relatable and I think this made the engagement so much easier.
'It was good being F2F and facilitator created a "safe space", and encouraged self-reflection and participation.
Delivered by: L&D
Duration: 5.5 hours over 2 days
Format: Face to face
Recommended for: Everyone
Richard H
Amy G
Getting a grip on your time and how prioritisation can transform your day.
We will delve into tools and techniques on how to get the best out of your time, prioritising tasks and activities while handling those timewasters.
Delivered by: L&D
Duration: 2 hours
Format: Face to face or webinar
Recommended for: Everyone
‘Adapt, innovate and thrive’
We will engage with you, the stakeholder, to understand what, how, and when change is having an impact. We will create a bespoke session, driving into the areas your area needs support with.
engaging and motivated our group to participate and reflect on personal/professional experiences we had related to change and associated neurological reactions.
Delivered by: L&D
Duration: 1.5-3 hours
Format: Face to face or webinar Recommended for: Teams/Departments dealing with upcoming or direct change
Kezia B
Ricardo R
Becoming that trusted leader while building high-trust relationships.
Understand the definition of trust and its significance in work relationships, what makes a trusted leader, and how we apply this to our roles. We will learn about ‘trust barriers’ and how to overcome them.
Delivered by: L&D
Duration: 1.5 hours
Format: Face to face or webinar
Recommended for: Managers and leaders
Getting a grip on your time and how prioritisation can transform your day.
What is the difference between coaching and mentoring?
Which is right for you? This session will review both elements and how you can become a coach or find a coach or mentor, or mentee.
This session is a bespoke session; we will tailor it for your required purposes.
Delivered by: L&D
Duration: 2 hours
Format: Face to face or webinar
Recommended for: Everyone
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This face-to-face session puts into practice the principles you have learnt from 'the core principles' session. We will be on our feet, delivering, observing and giving feedback to our peers.
You will be tasked to deliver material in a safe environment and growing your presentation and storytelling skills.
Delivered by: L&D
Duration: 3 hours
Format: Face to face
Recommended for: Everyone
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Kickstart your journey as a people manager
Manager Essentials takes a blended learning approach and includes a cohort of facilitated workshops, digital eLearning’s, pre and post work resources, and through its entirety is supported by a Learning Journal.
The program is aimed at aspiring managers or individuals who are new to people management.
Delivered by: L&D
Duration: 6-7 hours over x weeks
Format: Face to face or webinar
Recommended for: New or aspiring people managers
Manager Essentials is a series of seven facilitated workshops, and one eLearning module, delivered over 3-4 months, which means that you can take on information and apply at each stage.
“Since completing MEP, I have moved on to a new role and Fred has stepped up and is leading the team, very effectively. I work with him in a different capacity now and am pleased to see the changes and how effectively Fred has stepped up into this position”.
Fred’s manager
Take your people manager skills to the next level
Manager Accelerate is a series of individual facilitated workshops.
Mangers who are already experienced in people management or have completed the Manager Essentials program can pick and choose the courses they would like to attend from this curriculum.
Delivered by: L&D
Duration: 1-2 hours
Format: Face to face or webinar
Recommended for: New or experienced people managers
“I liked the topics and the learning environment created by the trainer and delegates. The trainer was engaging with great activities to confirm the learning”.
Gav K
“Easy to digest and lots of content and great open and honest delivery”.
Anne K
“I wouldn't change it, except will love to take away notes of the course as it was very interesting”.
Sunita F
Unlock Your Leadership Potential with the Foundations of Leadership Programme
The Foundations of Leadership programme is built around three core leadership pillars:
Being an authentic leader – lead with your true self, inspiring trust and respect through integrity and transparency
Developing growth leadership skills – drive personal and professional growth, constantly evolving to meet new challenges and fostering development in others
Becoming a global leader – lead with a global mindset, embracing diverse perspectives and adapting to an interconnected world
Are you ready to elevate your leadership skills and make a meaningful impact - the Foundations of Leadership programme is the perfect place to start!
The programme equips you with the Manager and Leadership competencies that are essential for today’s Drax Leaders:
Develop a deep understanding of our direction and learn to align your actions with our mission, values, and goals. You’ll gain the skills to think strategically and critically, foresee challenges, positioning your team for long-term success.
Learn how to drive your performance, deliver results and exceed objectives. Gain the tools to set clear goals, stay accountable, and execute effectively, ensuring measurable outcomes.
Embrace change and transformation, fostering a culture of innovation. Learn how to navigate change with agility, driving improvements, and seeking inspiration for cutting-edge practices that push the boundaries of possibility.
Master the art of building strong, collaborative relationships developing the skills to influence effectively and create mutually beneficial partnerships. Your ability to communicate and collaborate will be key to your success as a leader.
Develop a Leadership Mindset: Build a strong foundation in leadership, rooted in authenticity, growth, and global thinking that will build a high-performance team that consistently achieves results
Boost Career Trajectory: Enhance your personal brand as a strategic, innovative, and impactful leader.
Practical Insights: Gain actionable tools and frameworks that can be immediately applied to gain confidence in making decisions that inspire and motivate others
Network and Learn from Experts: Engage with seasoned leaders and like-minded peers to expand your leadership network
Delivered by: L&D, Drax Leaders and external partner facilitators
Duration: 1 session every 3 weeks over 24 weeks
Format: Multiple
Recommended for: Existing managers
At the heart of our organisation are the people who drive its success and propel us toward our purpose.
Our business thrives on the talents, dedication, and efforts of the talented many who contribute daily to our vision. To sustain growth and achieve excellence, it is critical that we focus on nurturing, developing, and unlocking the potential of our people. As we continue to evolve and shape our work environment, our goal is to cultivate a high-performance culture that drives both personal and organisational success.
We aspire to build a workplace where colleagues not only thrive but are fully empowered to reach their highest potential. We want to create a space where careers are built, meaningful connections are made, and experiences are continuously shaped and enriched.
By developing a highperformance culture we will foster greater colleague engagement, stronger business outcomes and a fairer more accountable work environment
To do this we have curated a variety of facilitated and self-led learning to support the performance of colleagues:
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Creating a high-performance culture is not a onetime initiative but an ongoing commitment to our colleagues, our values, and our shared goals. By focusing on leadership, development, supporting performance and continuous evaluation, we will create an environment where every colleague feels motivated, valued, and able to perform at their best. This commitment will lead to stronger business outcomes, enhanced colleague engagement, and a more rewarding workplace for all.
Owning your development
Personalandprofessionaldevelopmentisn’tjustaboutgettingthatnextpromotionorbeing“thebest”–it’s aboutgrowth,fulfilment,andunlockingyourfullpotential.Investinginyourdevelopmentand‘mentalrenewal’ isoneofthehabitsofhighlyeffectivepeople(StephenCovey7Habits–SharpentheSaw)andthegoodnews isthatwecanalldoit!
Set personal goals that bring you Joy!
First things first, what do you want to achieve? Goals are not one-size-fits-all, so make sure you have something personal alongside the Objectives you agree with your manager. Think about what will excite and challenge you. Do you want to take on more responsibility? Learn a new skill? Build a network of amazing people? Deliver the best performance of your career? Whatever it is, set your sights on it and break it down into bite-sized, achievable steps. It’s all about making progress, not perfection.
Own your learning journey
Every great professional knows that learning never stops. Whether it’s attending a webinar, reading industry-related articles, or learning on-the-job from others, the key is to make learning a regular part of your routine and build the muscle for it. You can’t expect to grow without adding new knowledge to your toolkit! So, make time for growth – you’re worth it. Plus, the world of online learning makes it easy –you can go from “I don’t know how to do that” to “I’ve got this!” in no time.
Make connections
Whether you connect with peers, mentors, or colleagues from other departments, having a support system is crucial. They’ll help hold you accountable, provide advice, or even open doors to new opportunities. Building relationships that push you to be your best self and don’t hesitate to network, collaborate, and surround yourself with people who challenge and inspire you.
Embrace feedback
Feedback isn’t always easy to hear, but it’s one of the best tools for growth. Ask for feedback from colleagues, managers, or even clients. It’s not about criticism; it’s about improvement. Be open to hearing what’s working well and what could use some fine-tuning. And remember – feedback is a gift! Use it to enhance your strengths and address areas for growth.
Celebrate your wins, no matter how small
Progress is progress! Whether you just completed a project milestone, mastered a new skill, or cracked the relationship code with a colleague, take the time to acknowledge your achievements. Take a moment to recognise your efforts and the efforts of others. Even celebrating the small wins provides a feeling of accomplishment, which is one of the single biggest motivating factors in how engaged and motivated we feel at work.
This habit supports great performance, positively impacts motivation, and opens the doors to career growth and satisfaction.
So, what’s next?
Take a step up in how you Unlock Your Potential todayyou’ve got this!
APDPprovidesstructure,clarity,andasenseofdirection,helpingyouachieveyour fullpotentialandmakemeaningfulprogressinyourpersonalandprofessionallife.
Experience
When considering your PDP we recommend considering the 3E’s.
This model will help you structure your PDP by asking you consider ways you can include learning activities that don’t only include formal education (10% of your overall learning).
You should consider exposure (20% learning from others) and experience (70% learning on the job) interventions you can put in place to increase your learning potential.
Education
Exposure
