Our vision for our people is to create an environment where people can excel and where they maximise their potential and opportunity. We believe that our culture should be unique to everyone and we commit to being consistent in treating people individually.
Our people are also unique – our recipe for success lies in the diversity of our workforce who have PhDs, graduates, people with life sciences experience, others from totally different career backgrounds and some with no qualifications. Lots of nationalities are represented among staff and there is a good mixture of male / female balance all of whom bring something different to the team. There is no ‘type’ for Alere.
We believe that all situations are different and the skills should match the situation. Our people need to be bold enough to lead and secure enough to follow as each situation dictates.
Due to the challenging and fast paced environment we support all individuals using various tools & techniques, for example;
4 day residential personal development program
WHAM (What & How About Me)
On-site coaching & mentoring
WOW Factors
We want our organisation to be clearly different and we constantly affirm that it's not only WHAT we do, it's also HOW we do it.
So, what does that mean in real life?
That's a question all of us wanted answered, so in the second part of 2005 (and reviewed again at the end of 2009) the whole company started working on a process to identify what the 'how' was that we all expected.
We decided it was all about behaviours so we looked at those we thought would make us successful and clearly different. These became our “WOW factors” (how we WOW ourselves and others). The whole organisation bought into these and we bring all of our new people up to speed during our 'Brilliance at Work' programme.
We receive feedback on how we perform against our WOW factors during our ‘WHAM process’ (What and How About Me) – this is in addition to 'in the moment' feedback.
The details of what we are committing to are below, imagine having the experience of working in this environment every day - WOW...
