Platform Team Review

I run the processes and systems that enable financial advisers for Barclays to give investment advice to their clients. This advice enables clients to achieve financial life goals, save for retirement and create a nest egg to pass to their children or grandchildren. Without teams like mine it would be difficult, if not impossible, to provide this service in such a heavily regulated environment.

• Improved communication skills • Improved networking skills • Improved Emotional intelligence • Better understanding of my development needs • Made us more assertive • Given us more formal ways of understanding myself and colleagues • Added structure to my thinking • Greater understating of others people’s positions allowing us to react, deflate and anticipate better outcomes

Expanding my current network within the business enabling both improved business integration and cross thinking, and also better prospects for my own career. The course has also offered exception insight into my own personal development, improving my interpersonal and emotional intelligence skills. The specialist lecturers have also helped expand my skills in business analysis and project work no end.

Not well - we are the first course of this type run by Barclays (and an early adopter form Cranfield). We feel a little like lab rats and have been left to pick up much of the slack between the organisations ourselves. We feel that future years will have a much better experience, but are having to put more work in that expected in keeping the course going in this first attempt.

Not a great deal; we are released to study blocks without prejudiced, but working at our level there is little you can do to cover the absence on any regular basis. All senior stakeholder have changed and our HR representative has left and not been replaced. Could do far better.

Not a great deal; we are released to study blocks without prejudiced, but working at our level there is little you can do to cover the absence on any regular basis. All senior stakeholder have changed and our HR representative has left and not been replaced. Could do far better.

The course has also offered exception insight into my own personal development, improving my interpersonal and emotional intelligence skills. The specialist lecturers have also helped expand my skills in business analysis and project work no end. This course will have made me a far better more organised and analytical leader.

Yes Barclays has a large range of personal clubs, teams and societies to take

Yes

The company has a collegiate value better than that of any other in the financial sector which i have worked for. I feel valued, accelerated and listened to more than i ever have before. Barclays offers you respect as standard and has a high series of values which act as a positive current throughout its colleagues.

Be genuine, be interesting, be prepared. We are a big organisation - learn how the different parts slot together. Do not come and talk to banking about investment or visa versa for example.