Providing a ‘Rolls Royce’ service
One of the world’s most famous brands is working closely with Warwickshire County Council to develop the management skills of their staff through working with primary school pupils.
A major focus on a week long training course for new Rolls Royce managers is the work they undertake with local pupils through the Warwickshire Education Business Partnership.
Rolls Royce invites newly appointed managers to attend the week’s training course in Warwickshire. The managers are drawn from all Rolls Royce locations worldwide and occasionally delegates arrive from China, Canada, Continental Europe and the USA as well as closer to home. As such, approximately 30 managers who are unlikely to have met each other before attend each course.
During the week the managers are set various tasks, and a major focus in the week is to work as a team delivering part of the curriculum in five South Warwickshire primary schools.
One of these sessions is taking place today involving the following schools: Haselor; Coughton; Studley Infants; St Mary’s Studley; and Henley in Arden. Here they will spend one afternoon delivering part of the Science and Technology National Curriculum.
The schools identify the challenge they would like the pupils to take part in. After a briefing at the school the teams have just a few hours to plan and prepare the two-hour lesson.
Rolls Royce Project Aims are:
To understand (through practice and application) the benefits to leadership and management of:-
Identifying and satisfying customer needs and values
Effective application of programme management techniques
The application of creativity and innovation in solution design and to satisfying customer needs
Clarity of purpose, objectives and accountability (both team and individual)
Clarity of communication
And their importance in the achievement of effective team working.
Cllr Chris Saint, Warwickshire County Council’s Portfolio Holder for Economic Development, said: “Rolls Royce is an internationally renowned company, and to have them using the Warwickshire Education Business Partnership for such a key part of their management training is a testimony to the value they place on the service.
“The Warwickshire Education Business Partnership has been working for some time with various partners from the business world to try and ensure as many of our pupils as possible are ready for the business world when leaving education.”
Warwickshire Education Business Partnership is part of Warwickshire County Council and has been successfully working with Rolls Royce on this initiative for more than 10 years.
If you feel your company could benefit from working with primary or secondary schools within Warwickshire please contact Carol Holloway on 01564 794 228. email carolholloway@warwickshire.gov.uk