Staff Matters August 7 2020 Issue 269 Week 6
CARING ABOUT OUR STAFF
OUR FIRST AFFORD ACADEMY MILESTONE
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Another huge milestone was achieved last week, with our first group of Afford Academy trainees starting their intensive training program. The program was created internally and targeted to new leaders moving up across our business. Affordians who attended the program absolutely loved it and the feedback we have already started receiving has been phenomenal. One of the Team Leaders who attended the first session was so impressed they wanted to share their experience and highlights from their training:
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“I would like to thank you all for letting me be a part of the first Afford Academy. It was a week I actually really enjoyed.
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I think what you have implemented here to teach new team leaders is absolutely amazing and I wish this had been available to me, even though I was fortunate to have someone who was an excellent TL.
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Even after doing this job for just under two years, I found the Academy helpful to myself, as there are areas of the job that I find come easily, but other areas which I still find a challenge. There were also things that I didn’t know or felt I didn’t have a proper understanding of but learning in a small group instead of having things explained via a teleconference call or email was extremely helpful.
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I enjoyed listening to Joy speak on the first day, I found it very inspiring and some things she said during her talk about mindset, attitude, solution-focused, accountability and ownership, responsibility etc. I found it very interesting and helpful. It’s good to listen to people with a lot of experience and learn from them, there is always something you can take from their experience. Joy is a wealth of knowledge and we can learn a lot from her on how to manage our sites effectively, It was extremely informative. The presenters were great and had a wealth of knowledge of the subjects they presented I want to thank Joy, Kiralee and all the presenters, as the training was excellent and the manuals are amazing and extremely helpful.” For future attendees, a hot tip from our trainee - “I would recommend that future students take up the available accommodation for the week due to the amount of information you need to process, and homework required. I found it hard to complete the homework when I returned home and needed to be in parent mode.” Congratulations to those who were our first Afford Academy attendees, you have become part of Afford history!
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