ScottishPower Learning’s School-to-Work Education and Training Programs: Empowering Socially Excluded Youth and Building Future Managers’ Leadership, Communication and Social Skills

ScottishPower Learning leverages its approach to supporting lifelong learning for its employees by contributing its comparative advantage in this area to the communities in which it operates.

Document Highlights 

Marketing training as an opportunity for employee growth and improvement was part of ScottishPower’s new vision. Its entire approach to training and development is built on three of its core values. To leverage this vision, ScottishPower Learning (SPL) was created, offering people in the community an opportunity to learn at the company’s training and learning centre.

ScottishPower Learning has a threefold impact:

• it helps shift company culture for improved competitive performance
• it helps rebuild the confidence of socially disenfranchised individuals by offering them a combination of encouragement, training and quality work experience
• it provides ScottishPower staff with a means of taking charge of their own personal development while supporting the Training and Development functions within the business units.

This case study looks at the:

• objectives;
• activities;
• keys to success