MY MOUNTAIN DEVELOPMENT
Introduction
The purpose of My Mountain Development Magazine
My Mountain Development for Line Managers:
• Mountain Warehouse Management Essentials (Virtual Workshops)
• Management Development Programme (MDP) (iAM & Virtual Workshop)
• Situational Leadership (iAM)
My Mountain Development for all Colleagues:
• Colleague Essentials (iAM)
• Colleague Development Programme (CDP) (iAM)
• Mountain Warehouse Masterclass (Virtual Workshops)
• Learning Library
FAQ’s
Contents
Introduction
Welcome to My Mountain Development. The start of your great development adventure!
As a growing business we recognise the importance of our colleagues growing their skills and careers with us. As you journey through your career at Mountain Warehouse, it is important to take time to learn, push yourself out of your comfort zone, and place yourself into different experiences to develop.
As a brand we want to invest in highly skilled and engaged colleagues providing everyone with opportunities to learn and grow. This fuels the goal of supporting everyone to enjoy the great outdoors.
So, whether you are new to our business, wanting to progress into other roles, or simply upskilling yourself to increase your expertise, our My Mountain Development will provide opportunity and support for you.
The delivery of the workshops can vary from: - Live workshops delivered though teams - Workshops hosted in person -Self – Learning -Continuous Learning
My Mountain Development Magazine Purpose
This magazine will explain your development opportunities and aims to signpost what is available to you as a colleague and at what career stage. It also provides insight into what type of development is on offer. Whether this be through our iAM portal, or our apprenticeships; we have you covered!
We ensure our offer is flexible to your needs and relates to the business skills driven from our Achievement Book, and Mountain Talk processes. Giving greater purpose to the development on offer.
We always advise colleagues all development conversations should take place with your Line Manager ensuring your development is endorsed, followed up and connected to your career goals.
Feel free to contact the L&D team for any further enquires via our e-mail learningdevelopment@mountainwarehouse.com
Our Line Manager Development Programmes
Mountain Warehouse Management Essentials
Venturing into a management role is an amazing career achievement that comes with increased responsibility. Making it essential for all line managers to keep topping up skills and refreshing techniques on how to best manage their teams.
Our Mountain Warehouse Management Essentials is aimed at supporting all new line managers on their leadership adventure. This workshop is mandatory for all new line managers joining the business, and available for other line managers to refresh their knowledge on how to lead the Mountain Warehouse way.
You will come away from the workshop understanding our brand policies that support you leading your teams.
The workshop explores the Mountain Warehouse tools….Mountain Talk, and Achievement Books providing details on how these tools support line manager success.
Delivery : Teams or in Head Office.
CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP
Management Development Programme (MDP)
It is important for all our management team to invest in their skills to lead high performing teams. Our MDP programme offers opportunity to all managers to increase their toolkit on topics such as…
• Dealing with difficult conversations
• Leadership Brand
• Change Management
• How to Create a Feedback Conversation (new content 2024).
• Self Awareness & The Art to Managing Up (new content 2024).
The programme will provide insight and greater confidence to all line managers when leading colleagues, ensuring you feel fully equipped to navigate your team towards business success.
Delivery : Teams /In head office/ Self – learning / Continuous learning
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Situational Leadership
Situational Leadership is a style of leading that requires you to adapt to various team scenarios that commonly playout. It is a flexible and adaptive model focused on driving the best results through the leadership of developing your team. Examining the right approach for the right scenario to get the most effective result.
It covers the following skills…
• Coaching (CTTT Behaviour – Coaching)
• Effective delegation (CTTT Behaviour – Teamwork, Project work and Leadership)
• Support vs. Direct leadership (CTTT Behaviour – Teamwork, Trust, Builds relationships, Emotional Intelligence, Coaching, Leadership)
• The impact of Skill vs. Will (CTTT Behaviour – Teamwork, Self-Learning, Coaching)
The workshops will increase your toolkit creating highly influential leadership moments that inspire you team to develop.
This is an advanced workshop for managers who have previously completed our Management Essentials and MDP programmes.
Duration : 4x 60-90min workshops.
Delivery : Teams or one day in person workshop.
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Our All Colleague Development Programmes
Mountain Warehouse
Colleague Essentials
Joining a new business is an exciting part of everyone's career. Whether it is your first career job or joining with previous experience it is a large change for all. To support all our colleagues in landing successfully here at Mountain Warehouse we offer all our head office colleagues our essentials package. This enhances your role induction setup by your department, and line manager.
It focuses on enhancing core business skills in the form of bite-sized digital content.
Including….
• Outlook skills
• Confidence & Assertiveness
• Communication Skills
• Growth & Fixed Mindset
• Excel skills
Delivery : Digital Learning Content.
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Colleague Development Programme (CDP)
As a growing business we value all our colleagues having access to differing development opportunities.
Our CDP allows all colleagues to access fundamental skills that will support their career growth, and role development.
Our Colleague Development Programme (CDP) offers you insight on various following topics complete the below to request the development session you are interested in.
CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP!
Mountain Warehouse Masterclass
We want you to have the opportunity to choose sessions which can develop your skills in the following areas. Workshops are available on a rotational 6 months basis and reflect our business Mountain Talk goals that are created with your line manager, they can include topics such as….
• Presentation skills
• Resilience
• Negotiation
• Day in the life of (new content for 2024).
• Power BI (new content for 2024)
• Data Skills (new content for 2024).
We want you to be able have flexible opportunity to develop yourself based on your Mountain Talk goals and our Masterclass series provides the perfect opportunity to do so.
Delivery : Teams /In head office/ Self – learning / Continuous learning
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Mountain Learning Library
We are launching our new learning library to support all colleagues with the opportunity to increase their skills and knowledge through accessing differing literature on topics such as…
Leadership
Equality Diversity & Inclusion
Remote Management
Wellbeing
Neurodiversity
Strategy
Motivation
The library will offer digital versions to ensure this offer can be accessed internationally.
For more details on what books are available and how to lend your first read please click the link below
CLICK HERE TO REQUEST A BOOK!
Frequently Asked Questions
FAQ’s
Q: How do we manage time away from our current workload for all colleague sessions?
A: Please confirm with your line manager before signing up to any sessions. You will then be given sufficient time to attend.
Q:Am I expected to attend outside my working hours?
A: No, you will only be required to attend in your working hours.
Q: Are Line Managers allowed to attend ‘all Colleague sessions?
A: Whilst the skill level for all colleague sessions differ from the skill level for the line manager sessions, line managers are still able to book onto all colleague sessions.
Q: How do I sign up?
A: There are links and QR codes provided on the relevant programme offer throughout this booklet, which will take you to the sign-up pages for these sessions.
FAQ’s
Q: I want to attend a session but none of the available dates work for me. Will there be further dates?
A:There will be additional dates added continuously. Promoted through internal comms and via Senior Leadership team. Please feel free to contact L&D for further information regarding dates, or any bespoke training needs.
Q: Apprenticeships are not mentioned but do we have them available?
A: We do have apprenticeship programmes available that are promoted via leadership conversations and linked to specific career goals. If you are interested in an apprenticeship, we may have a course available to you.
Please speak with your line manager and contact L&D for a current catalogue of courses.
