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of days following lockdown. This has meant we continued to offer learning and development opportunities, workshops, tech talks, conferences etc to employees as originally planned. Leveraging Microsoft Teams and many virtual whiteboards (!), we have completed over 20 different courses since March. We continue to encourage our teams to consider AWS accreditation as part of their development plans. Liberty is a huge investor in personal development, and it’s been an exciting year for me personally as I have been
fortunate to have been part of a Global Leadership Development Programme through 2019 and 2020. Within the organisation this year, I have been leading out on some exciting initiatives, including the introduction of technical coaching, the launch of an organisationwide consultancy programme, and getting some focus on planning for critical skills needed for in future.
q What areas in particular would
you say the majority of employees have wanted to upskill in? We are very much operating as business as usual, with projects
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Niamh Campbell Journalist, Sync NI
continuing to be delivered from our Belfast and Dublin teams for our customers across the world. However, we always ensure teams have time for innovation sprints and learning and development. In addition to an increase in AWS accreditation, we’ve also seen an increased demand for all our “classroom” courses, ranging from specific technical training to professional skills training, such as communication skills, resilience building and commercial awareness courses. Upskilling our leaders has been front of mind also, all our people managers have