The Babcock LEAD & DRIVE Programme was launched in 2014 and is a series of bespoke Executive Education modules for middle and senior managers within Babcock covering a range of areas from Change to Growing the Business.
The DRIVE programme is designed to enable Babcock’s leaders to overcome the challenges facing their business units by bringing the learning and application of new skills together through the support of leading subject experts. It is a learning journey underpinned by leading research but very much rooted in equipping leaders to delivered sustainable improvements in organisational performance.”
The DRIVE programme is a selection of short, high-impact learning and development interventions focused on a business-related stretch assignment to complete over six months. The modules have been designed to promote skills and expertise critical to the future and success of Divisional and Group strategies.
On October 6, the Centre for Corporate Connections hosted the DRIVE - Growth Showcase which is the finale of the Babcock DRIVE module. During the session, participants had the opportunity to present the final results of their individual Growth projects and share how they applied their learning to tackle internal challenges and deliver business results.
They demonstrated their approach to meeting the objectives of the Growth module to develop improved expertise in both business winning and setting up robust and success-oriented projects utilising cross-divisional capability and shaping contracts to make them efficiently executable.
The participants from a cross section of BIG businesses earlier attended the Centre for Corporate Connections in March and spent two days working together to develop skills and knowledge in connecting core competencies and capabilities; increasing commercial awareness; applying skills and experience to create a standardised approach to bidding, winning and delivering contracts with long term exploitable opportunities.
They worked in small groups to develop insight through practical application of a range of tools, techniques, models and case studies. Over the next 4 to 6 months, participants selected an individual business project and were supported and coached on applying the Growth principles by module leader, Dr David MacKay. He supported the face-to-face teaching with a series of post class webinars and 1:1 discussion. The Showcase is the culmination of the learning and an opportunity to demonstrate how they applied this in their work environment.
David was joined on the judging panel by Babcock DRIVE Growth module sponsor, David McGinley, Commercial Marine Director for Marine & Technology Division; Cathy Ilett, Organisation Development Manager for Marine and Technology at Rosyth Naval Dockyard; Mark Alden, Learning & Development Manager for Network Engineering; and Marina Livingstone, Strathclyde Programme Director. Jennifer Bigby, Capture Manager, SSD was awarded the prize for Best Project.