Powergen
Powergen is the 2nd largest supplier to the UK Energy market with some 5 million retail customers. Its business encompasses generation, wholesale trading, distribution as well as retail trading to the domestic, industrial and commercial markets. The Company employs some 5000 staff in the UK and has grown substantially in recent years with the acquisitions of East Midlands Electricity in 1998 and Txu Energy in 2002. Also in 2002 Powergen was itself taken over by E.on of Germany the largest Investor owned Energy Company in the world.
Need
The Company’s recent growth had lead to a fragmentation of some of the core Management Development programmes, with the result that the different Businesses were tending to do their own thing. There was a clear need to establish a consistent approach to Management Development starting with an Introduction to Management Programme for the Company’s Junior Managers
Solution
Day 1
- POWERGEN’s Business Environment
- Financial Information & Statements
Day 2
- The Role of the Manager
- Team Leading and Management Skills, including Myers Briggs Type Indicator
Day 3
- Absenteeism and Disciplinary action
- Performance Reviews, Setting Objectives and Developing People
- Evening Speaker - People Vision and Brand
Day 4
- Motivation
- Managing Change
- Evening - Private End of Course Dinner
Day 5
- Influencing people - First impressions & adding to your impact
- Negotiating using the appropriate style
- Review of programme using 6 Thinking Styles
Results
“We were impressed by the way iD were able to design a programme which suited our needs and which has been delivered professionally with very positive feedback from those who have participated to date”.
After the initial pilot, some 8 programmes have been run to date covering approximately 120 of Powergen’s Managers.