While Your Housing Group have offered management development programmes for several years, colleagues within the organisation were asking to go on a recognised course so they could demonstrate their achievements.
Against the backdrop of recruitment, retention and skills challenges in the wider housing sector, Your Housing Group’s people strategy is all about investing in colleagues’ skills. So it was a top priority for the L&D team to act on colleagues’ feedback about their management training.
Your Housing Group’s ‘Aspire’ and ‘Engage’ management development programmes contain housing-specific content that they didn’t want to lose. By getting their programmes Assured by ILM, a part of City & Guilds, Your Housing Group were able to keep this bespoke content while delivering what their colleagues had asked for – digital credentials from a globally respected brand.
Going through the quality assurance process enabled the L&D team to achieve other goals too, ensuring consistency in leadership development across Your Housing Group and reinforcing their commitment to the professionalisation of the housing sector.