The HR People Development Team at GO has launched its Learning Academy to help the company’s staff “acquire new skills and continue reaching their career aspirations”.

Announcing the news on Facebook, it said the Academy is an investment in its people’s development, providing them with learning that is “easy to access, high-quality, bite-sized” and that inspires a growth mindset”.

Discussing the launch, GO’s HR and People Development Manager Emma Gatt said the company is enforcing its purpose “no one is left behind” by ensuring the Academy is “for everyone at GO”.

As part of the company’s philosophy, GO has set out to deliver three types of learning; “priority learning programmes, technical and functional training, and self-driven learning”, she says.

As part of the first type, participants will build skills based on GO’s three pillars, which it says are purposeful leadership, consumer centricity and digital excellence.

For the technical and functional training, the Academy joined forces with key stakeholders to ensure that “departmental needs are met, digital skills gaps addressed and content is delivered in line with the Academy’s learning principles”.

With regards to self-driven learning, Ms Gatt explains that GO “wanted to give total empowerment to [its] people to be able to define their own learning goals and indulge their own curiosity through a number of opportunities”. As part of this, the company will give each individual “a personal learning budget”.

Looking to the future, she acknowledges that mindset and behaviour change “does not happen overnight or from a few workshops”, and that the programme needs to keep up momentum and constantly inspire the company’s employees to “take ownership, follow through with the different learnings and practice them every day”.

“I would love to be able to blink and fast forward to a number of months down the line to witness the shift in behaviour and mindsets, but I will be patient and enjoy the beautiful process”.