| | November 2020MANAGEHRMAGAZINE.COM8In MyOpinionDEVELOPING A PEOPLE-CENTRIC CULTURE By Debbie Waddington, Group HR Director, Keepmoat HomesI joined Keepmoat Homes as the HR Reward Director in 2016 and was made Group HR Director a year later with a focus on delivering our people strategy. This means ensuring that we can attract the right talent to join us, develop our own talent internally and engage our employees to ensure that our people feel supported, trusted, committed, can grow their career with us and that most importantly they enjoy working for Keepmoat Homes and feel engaged.At Keepmoat Homes we focus on putting people at the heart of everything we do. This creates a culture which is aligned to our values ­it is straightforward, passionate, creative and highly collaborative. Alongside this, the environment is fast paced, friendly and one where people are supported with their development and encouraged to grow. The emphasis on development and our robust approach to talent enables us to identify our high performers which in turn helps us to understand who the successors will be for key roles. Talent mapping and succession planning enable us to focus on people's potential and support them to ensure we are growing our own talent to get the right balance between external recruitment and internal promotions. I'm very proud of the fact that our culture was recognised last summer through our Investors in people accreditation, with the assessor highlighting our effective people centric culture and the positive impact that this has on our performance as a business. We recently launched our Future Leaders Programme which is a year-long programme aimed at our high performers with the potential to reach director level. This programme supports their personal development by focusing on leadership skills and enables them to work on live projects while being supported through group and individual coaching sessions.As well as developing our Future Leaders, we also try to offer as many opportunities as we can to young people starting their careers in the home
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