Investors in People
Our Investors in People accreditation is important to us,
because our people, our talent, are one of our fundamental company
values. For us, Investors in People is all about encouraging good
people management. At Colas some of the ways we approach this is
through our induction, training, career development, mentoring,
appraisals, business improvement initiatives and employee
forums.
Other important factors are involving teams in objective setting
and decision making where possible and encouraging our people to
contribute to continuous improvement, through communicating our
vision and purpose.
We also recognise the benefits from operating to the Investors
in Peoples guidelines,:
- It helps our people to become customer focused allowing us to
meet our customers' needs thoroughly truly understanding their
objectives.
- It helps us to provide the right knowledge and information to
our people so they remain motivated, can work efficiently and adapt
to change.
- We attract, recruit and retain talented people who are
visionary, passionate and value the importance of innovation in
business.
- Our entire management team are engaged, involved and endorse
these guidelines.
Working in accordance to the Investors in People standard has
provided us with improved business performance, development of our
people and effective and efficient internal systems and
processes.
