Building for the future
Overall winner & category winner: talent management
KIER BUILDING MAINTENANCE (KBM)
Winner in the talent management category and overall winner of this year’s People Management Award was Kier Building Maintenance (KBM). It was highly commended by the judges for its City Stewardship programme, which is transforming the lives of disaffected young people, creating a talent pipeline for the next generation of company employees, and developing the supervisory skills of staff.
The 26-week programme trains and mentors young people on various work schemes in their local communities in Sheffield. Teams work on projects such as tending the gardens of elderly and disabled people and painting and decorating vacant properties and communal areas.
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