Getting Northern Rail on the right track
People Development / Training
Summary
Following a merger between Northern Rail and several smaller operators, the newly expanded company needed to update its HR policies. Pelican created a workshop featuring interactive techniques, team activities and quizzes designed to familiarise managers with the new HR policies.
Tell me more
Northern Rail is the largest train operator in the UK, running more than 2,500 local and regional train services every weekday in the north of England.
The Challenge
Following a merger between the company and several smaller operators, the newly expanded company needed to update its HR policies, to ensure uniform procedures across the business.
Pelican were asked to create a half-day workshop that would inject life and real-world relevance into what would otherwise be a rather dry and theoretical exercise.
The Pelican approach
To ensure buy-in and to keep costs down it was essential that the workshop be delivered by in-house staff.
Pelican designed a short workshop to familiarise managers with six new HR policies.
Interactive techniques, team activities and quizzes were all carefully devised to engage managers, aid understanding and maximise knowledge retention.
Having created the workshop, Pelican then trained a selection of Northern Rail HR partners and trade union representatives in the techniques to deliver it, so they could roll out the sessions to around 450 managers and other trade union representatives.
This ‘train the trainer’ approach enabled the company to deliver later workshops as and when required.
The results
The workshops were rolled out across the company over a period of several months and were very well received by all attendees. They allowed managers across the business to get to grips with new policies, and in turn, cascade this information to their teams.
Following this resounding success Pelican was asked to deliver further similar projects for the organisation.
Don’t just take our word for it…
“Good to meet managers on the same course so that both know same procedures.”
“Enjoyable and more informative with managers on course”
“Very informative. Everyone singing from the same hymn sheet can only be good going forward”
Feedback from the workshop was extremely positive.
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