The Real Learning team replaced its training room microphones with winners’ medals recently, after a win at the New Zealand Association of Training and Development awards.
The learning development company, based on Level 1 of the B:HIVE, took home Best Leadership Development Programme at the national awards night.
Heidi Lance, Real Learning’s founder, developed a safety leadership development program for Fletcher Building after the construction company reached out following on-site incidents.
“The purpose of the leadership safety programme is to help instigate a safety culture shift that starts with the leaders and results in improved safety outcomes,” Heidi says. “It’s an acknowledgement that people come first, and all injuries can be avoided.”
Since Real Learning implemented its programme there has been a “significant” positive change in processes within Fletcher Building Heidi says. The company has recorded 32% reduction in injuries, 75% reduction in serious injuries, 90% of sites being injury free and two more business units remain injury free.
“We worked with Fletcher Building for six months to design this programme,” Heidi says. “It has gone from me facilitating it, to the executive leadership team, to then filtering down through the whole company.
“The business has trained more than two and a half thousand leaders across Australia and New Zealand since we started.”
The same leadership development programme was also named as a finalist in the Australia and New Zealand Safeguard Safety Awards.
“It’s great to get recognition for all the hard work the team has put in and it also shows the strength of the relationship between us and Fletcher Building,” Heidi says.