| 47 Attracting new talent key T T from page 44 Westland Milk Products REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT Complementing the ‘Grow Our Own’ campaign is a focus on attracting new talent to the business. Westland offers tertiary scholarships to university students from within the West Coast catchment area, and part of that scholarship also entitles the recipient to work in the business during the university holidays. A cadetship programme will be re-launched this year. “We are also due to have another Open Day at Westland, for schools from Karamea and across the West Coast and we have done the same thing in Rolleston as well. We also align ourselves very closely with school career advisors, who are very influential in the choices made by Year 11 and 12 kids. I am also on the Food & Fibre Council of New Zealand, where we do quite a lot of work around promoting the food and fibre sector across the board, to both primary and high schools. Often careers can be very misunderstood and I am focused on that on a national scale, as well as the team partnering in with the local high schools.” Cross pollination between new team members and those who have been with the business for a while provides a richer, deeper work dynamic for a business that relies not just on production, but also knowledge for its growth. “Today’s ‘good’ is tomorrow’s ‘minimum standard’. There are always going to be people who have new ideas, new energy, new enthusiasm. All of those things are really important in integrating new people into the business. We want our people and our leaders to have a growth mindset and a lot of that comes from having your own thinking challenged. “Part of that we do through our Leadership Programme, but part also come from new people coming in. Some of the best ideas that you ever get are from someone seeing things from a fresh set of eyes. “That can be either from brand new people coming into the business, or people from within the business changing roles. We have done quite a bit of work to break down functional silos. It’s certainly how we work cross functionally as an executive, and therefore the rest of the business follows suit.” When Westland launched its Leadership Programme last year, all 140 people leaders throughout the business attended. The programme was almost entirely internally facilitated, run by Westland’s executive team. Amy says it was all about courage, trust and accountability, and getting leaders to engage across the business and across functions to achieve what Westland needed to achieve from a performance perspective. At the same time Westland launched its individual development plans with all staff completing plans that talked about their personal and professional aspirations. “So we have just been able to harness all of those sorts of things. There are people who have been with Westland for a very long time who were willing to step up into senior roles and to me that was a good indication of trust and confidence in the direction that the business is taking, and that is lot of what culture is all about. We have been on a strategic journey that we thought would take five years, and instead it has taken one year, and we believe people and the change in culture has been one of the biggest drivers of that.” – Canterbury return daily – Available for general cartage/freight – Bulk fertiliser or feed – Hiab hire – Servicing the dairy industry for 19+ years Optimised sealing solutions for maximised reliability For dairy process equipment Over 27 years of sealing experience in the dairy industry within Australasia. EAGLEBURGMANN AUSTRALASIA PTY LTD New Zealand: sales@nz.eagleburgmann.com TEL +64 9 448 5001 Proud to be a supplier to Westland Milk Products 26"-*5: *4 063 #64*/&44 41&$*"-*454 */ &-&$53*$"- */4536.&/5"5*0/ "/% "650."5*0/ %"*3: ] '00% #&7&3"(& ] 108&3 (&/&3"5*0/ ] 5*.#&3 130$&44*/( ] '"3.*/( ] .*/*/( ] )";"3%064 "3&"4 ] 8"5&3 8"45& 8"5&3 */'0!&*4&37*$&4 /; 888 &*4&37*$&4 /; Warren Refrigeration Services REFR I GER AT I ON, VENT I L AT I ON & HE AT PUMPS 10 Clough Road, Paroa, Greymouth | 021 024 50117 | wrservices10@gmail.com 24 Hours Response, 7 days a week | IQP Registered | Approved installer of: Proudly supporting Westland Milk Products
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