Naidu Consulting

WINNER

Naidu Consulting

Naidu Consulting are a growing civil and engineering company with more than 160 staff and operations throughout South Africa. A key component of this growth may be attributed to the rapid mobilisation of their resources to contribute to problem-solving. This mobilisation has been effective through a learning and empowerment culture established within the organisation.

The company's ability to adapt and thrive guiding experiential learning and their in the volatile South African market is highly application to register as professionals. dependent on the capacity, capability and The mentorship process involves a adaptability of their people. While there is detailed assessment of each candidate an underlying drive to draw young people by a Registered Mentor through into the profession, they understand the Naidu Consulting’s Commitment and need to build judgement capability and to Undertaking with ECSA. Based on the disaggregate decision-making in order to experiential gap analysis, the mentor crafts allow for growth and development within a personalised training plan in conjunction the organisation. They realise the importance with supervisory staff to fast-track of raising leaders, decision-makers and registration through ordinary day-to-day contributors rather than mere followers. project work. Without compromising Training and mentorship is a building block of operational efficiency, mentors identify key empowerment, which has become an integral learning areas through common activities part of the culture within Naidu Consulting. and direct mentees to optimise learning

The Naidu Consulting Mentorship through these activities. Programme was developed by a team Twelve candidates have been registered in of professional engineers to promote the last year. The company database tracks skills transfer. Through the programme, progress and they celebrate success by technicians, technologists and engineers are formerly communicating each registration mentored by ECSA Registered Engineers, to all staff, inspiring others to register.

Registered staff are rewarded with salary increases and promotions.

While seasoned mentors have traditionally undertaken mentorship activities, all professionally registered staff members are registered as mentors after completing three years of post-registration experience. This supports many mentees, while enabling junior mentors to develop their mentoring skills. This strategy ensures that the programme continues to grow, and that the mentorship workload is evenly spread across all mentors.

Training, capacitation, upliftment and empowerment: it’s in their DNA.