Building resilience and capability: Shaping the future of Morgan Sindall Construction

Case study

Jenny Martin Preconstruction Manager North West Time with business: 4 years, 5 months

I was put forward to take part in Shaping our Future by our North West MD at the time. It was great to get the recognition as someone who could contribute to shaping the strategy for the future of the business. I thought taking part would be an interesting challenge and a good opportunity to meet other people within the business. Because we’re decentralised, you don’t tend to speak to people from the other Morgan Sindall regions very often. But, even though we were from different areas of the country, our team had a lot in common and I think we worked really well together on our area of challenge. The early sessions on innovation and thinking differently were enlightening. Hearing from someone not in construction, coming at it with a completely different mindset, was really interesting. We can tend to be quite practical in terms of always looking for a solution, but learning how to get out of the day-to-day mindset definitely helped us when it came to how we approached the question we were tackling in our project group. It broadened our horizons and got us thinking more about us as a business and what we need to do internally to get buy-in from our customers before we go and do the external piece. Since the programme ended, I’ve continued to work with my project group on the areas we identified for improvement. It’s great to still be involved because, at the end of the day, everything we are doing is relevant to my day job and is about winning work for the business.

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