Today Sheridan chats with Natalie Houlton of Yellow Duck Development about designing and delivering graduate training programmes.

Natalie amongst other training roles works with graduates providing them with foundational skills and helping them to develop those skills, in a variety of different companies from SME’s to global companies in multiple industries.

Within her graduate training programme brings together the key aspects of training that other managers in businesses are already successful in doing such as networking and building relationships with their peers.

Natalie is currently working with one company and explains during the 18 month programme that it is being endorsed by The President of the company and this level of endorsement from senior management is a very important part in showing graduates how a company takes a programme.

Natalie is passionate about getting the right elements of a graduate programme together, making sure that all the parts are joined up and have the right management and infrastructure to allow this to happen. This includes having a programme sponsor, programme coordinator, programme administrator and a programme facilitator.

This is a fascinating conversation between Sheridan and Natalie, where Sheridan shares her own experience of being on a graduate programme and how things have changed with the new generation of graduates.

And if you have been on a graduate programme recently or a while ago, we’d love to hear your thoughts on this episode.

Connect with Natalie on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/nataliehoulton/ 

Visit her website here https://www.yellowduckdevelopment.co.uk/ Visit www.trainingdesignersclub.co.uk for more information

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