Hawkins is one leading construction company that takes this responsibility seriously. They’ve been supporting Māori and Pasifika trades trainees through their employment, upskilling and apprenticeship journeys since 2014.
One of the programmes they’ve found particularly helpful is Education Unlimited’s Critical Skills Programme. A short interactive course offering targeted training, it includes goal setting, time management and Future Ready Money Confidence. Not only that but it embeds critical life skills like literacy and numeracy.
Nancy McConnell is highly regarded in the industry and was most recently Strategic Advisor at Hawkins. Here’s what she had to say about the programme…
“We thoroughly recommend the Critical Skills Programme developed by Education Unlimited to support trainees - its dual focus on individual and group learning engaged and built confidence in our trainees, so much so that we initiated a further programme to continue their development. And all of this occurred whilst we went into lockdown and had to refocus the programme so that it could be delivered online. Six of the ten trainees graduated the programme; the four who did not complete had valid technological, work and personal reasons. An ‘online’ graduation ceremony provided a wonderful forum to share the success of the programme and what it meant to each trainee.
“I appreciate having had the opportunity to work with Tina Rose and the Education Unlimited team – they listen, they create and develop meaningful programmes that deliver the needed results.”