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Columbia Group Launches Leadership Development Programme to cultivate future talents and dynamic teams

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Columbia Group, a leading integrated maritime, logistics, leisure, energy and offshore services platform, announces an initiative dedicated to fostering lifelong learning and growth in the company.

The Leadership Development Programme, offered in partnership with global leadership consultancy FranklinCovey, aims to recognise and nurture leaders and build high-performing teams. Columbia Group encompasses offices around the world and its shore based employees include every type of professional from marketing, crewing, legal, finance, and administrative specialists.

“People are at the heart of everything we do at Columbia and our investment in them is what sets us apart and enables us to achieve remarkable results,” says Mark O’Neil, Columbia Group CEO/President. “With this programme, we are enhancing our commitment to lifelong learning and adding to the excellent existing initiatives, such as the New Graduate Programme.”

Columbia Group sees the programme as vital for developing potential throughout the company, with a focus on three groups: Directors, Line Managers, and Future Talents. Future Talents will be identified by their Line Managers and Directors based on their performance and commitment to the company.

A key to the Leadership Development Programme is creating impact journeys – learning experiences that empower employees to deliver breakthrough results. The impact journeys are designed to combine live interventions with digital support including application challenges to encourage using the new skills in meaningful ways.

Elements of the programme include peer coaching sessions, accountability partners to help each participant follow through on goals, and individual development journeys to help increase self-awareness that can lead to better decision making, improved communication, conflict resolution, relationship-building, and better teamwork.

Areas of focus will include essential roles of leadership; methods to multiply or unlock team potential; ways to navigate change; and how to promote inclusive leadership. Consultants FranklinCovey, who have more than 35 years of organizational development experience, will help identify areas that will create Columbia Group’s version of success.

The new initiative resonates with the company’s well-established ‘icare’ philososphy, which recognises the absolute importance of growing a strong company culture with which its employees, crew and clients can readily and willingly identify and adopt.

In addition to the Leadership Development Programme, the company will sponsor ICS courses for employees who require them, Microsoft Suite training, and various other skill-enhancing courses.

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