Our training and development strategy…

We aim to create a competitive advantage at Ardagh by fostering a strong learning culture and mindset.

Focusing on capturing out in-house expertise and combining it with external learning content.

We will achieve this by spotting and nurturing out talent, adopting a ‘learning for all’ ethos, developing an intuitive learning academy in myLearning and encouraging collaboration across all regional teams.

This strategy is closely aligned to our business objectives, strategy, HR policies, Behaviours and Ardagh for Education.

We nurture our employees to grow and be successful in their careers. Our Learning Academies include topics such as: Leadership, Business and People skills, Functional Excellence, Sustainability, Operations and Environmental Health Safety Risk & Compliance.

We offer all employees access to a language development programme and a digital library of soft skills development content. In addition, we also offer more targeted technical and role-based training such as project management, lean six sigma, sales and negotiation training, as well as on-the-job training models and early careers programmes (apprenticeships and graduate programmes).

We support our leaders through leadership development programmes, digital/workshop learning activities, assessment and coaching/mentoring opportunities with a focus on targeted training topics such as unconscious bias, respectful workplace training, supervisor training, emotional intelligence and leading difficult conversations.

Managing competency and skills in our teams is important to us. We have created a skills assessment tool to help identify skills gaps to support employees on the development of their technical knowledge and skills. Each year, our personal development review process supports quality conversations between employees and their managers on how employees and the business can work together to meet development and career objectives.