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Talent at National Grid

Developing the very best people

Inspiring the best in you

Managing your talent effectively is an important part of our strategy for growth, innovation and change.
Your skills, knowledge and capability are fundamental to tackling the challenges we face and helping our business to succeed. So we want to inspire you.

Talent management

Talent management is about making sure motivated and capable people like you:

  • Want to stay and grow with us
  • Can succeed and perform at the right time in the right places
  • Deliver specific collaborative strategies
  • Meet the current and future needs of our business

We achieve this through a robust talent management process, top quality performance management and by adhering to our leadership qualities.

Our leadership qualities

At National Grid, a successful leader:

  • Lives the National Grid values
    • Respects others and value their diversity
    • Takes ownership for driving performance
    • Demonstrates integrity and openness in all relationships
    • Works as one team, one National Grid
  • Creates the future
  • Consistently delivers great performance
  • Builds relationships
  • Develops self and others

Our approach to leadership development

Our leadership development is targeted at all levels. We’ll make sure that the right development for you happens at the right time, and is focused on critical competencies that support both your leadership needs, and the execution of the business strategy.

Assessing your leadership qualities

If you want to join us as a leader, you’ll need to go through a leadership qualities assessment. We’ll measure what you can do and how you do it when it comes to managing, leading and inspiring others.

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