Your development is intrinsically linked with the success of Morse therefore not only is it in your interest, but also in ours, to continue investing in your personal growth. We recognise the need to invest in both your technical and personal development throughout your career so that you can build on your strengths to fulfil your potential within Morse and increase your market value.
Buddy Scheme
We know how daunting it can be when joining a new firm so in order to insure that you have every opportunity to reach your learning and development potential we operate a buddy scheme for every new recruit. A buddy will be allocated to you to help you find your feet in the first few weeks of joining and will be someone either from your team or in a similar role to you.
They will help you:
- Find out more about life at Morse and explain any subjects that need clarification or pointing you in the right direction to find out
- Help you with operational tasks such as expense claims etc.
- Assist you in finding information on the network and Intranet
- Provide background on who’s who in Morse, introduce you to other colleagues and facilitate re-introductions
- Show you around the office and the immediate location, good places to get lunch etc.
- The end of the buddying period is determined by when you feel that you are sufficiently settled in (typically 2-3 weeks)
To support your learning and development Morse provides access to practical experience as well as classroom theory to help you advance your skills. Employees are encouraged to train in business, technical and soft skills and in order to support this Morse provides a core set of e-learning courseware from Skillsoft covering a wide variety of subjects.
Morse also values more informal methods of development to embed your learning through practical application. There are many different kinds of ‘on-the-job’ learning as a result of the access to high quality work opportunities that are available. Some examples of the types of learning experiences you may be exposed to are listed below.
- Mentoring – either obtaining a mentor to facilitate your development or acting as one to progress you management skills and assist others
- Coaching and training new members of staff
- Working overseas at a client site
- Managing a project and taking the responsibility for a particular client
- Attending industry seminars
- Raising your own individual profile and that of Morse by hosting client events, presenting at seminars or writing articles for industry publications
- Working alongside consultants with specialist skills that you can learn from
At Morse we aim to achieve a simple, transparent and fair process for managing your performance and we are committed as a company to providing opportunities for internal progression. As part of this process we operate a company-wide career development framework and all employees will have a either a ‘Balanced Business Scorecard’ or a ‘Personal Development Plan’ depending on their role to record and measure objectives. The aim is to ensure every individual has a set career path with personal objectives and support is offered to the individual in order to fulfil their potential.
We conduct an annual appraisal process with a six monthly review. The appraisal process includes
- Completion of self assessment forms
- Feedback from peers/managers on individual performance against the company competencies
- Completion and output of appraisal via Appraisal form
The competencies that we measure people against are listed below:
- Personal effectiveness
- Client delivery
- Client business development
- Communication
- Business understanding
- People knowledge development
- Leadership
