Our People Learning and development

Learning and development

Our people are our most valuable asset

We are committed to the skills and development of our people. Our Learning and Development department has a mandate to ensure that we have a fully functional, competent and safety-conscious workforce to help the company achieve its strategic objectives.
Training session at our Tarkwa mine

Our people undergo various structured training and development interventions grouped under four broad categories:


  • Leadership and management development programmes

  • Professional training

  • Technical and artisanal training

  • Other training includes induction and awareness training, safety representative training and human rights training

These training programmes are tailored to suit the specific needs of each employee so that they can improve their skills and develop their potential.

Key training and development programmes
  • Inspire (Senior Management Programme)
  • Ignite (Middle Management Programme)
  • Mineralisation Systems and Discovery Strategy
  • Management in Mineral Exploration
  • Essential Factors Investigation Training
  • ISO 14064 Green House Gas Lead Training
  • Code of Conduct Training
  • Hazard and Risk Management Training
  • Human Rights Training
  • Data Protection Training
  • Courageous Safety Leadership Training
  • HR Conference
  • Financial Management Training
  • Exploration Workshop
  • Geomechanics Software (Rocscience) Training
  • Sustainable Mining Conference
  • First Aid Training
  • Snake Identification, Snake Bite Treatment and Venomous Snake Handling Course
  • Vehicle Interaction Effectiveness Control Workshop
  • Internal Auditor’s (ISO 14001:2018) Training
  • Lead Auditor’s (ISO 14001:2015) Training
  • Root Cause Analysis Training
  • Cybersecurity Awareness Training
  • ICMC Workshop
  • Power BI Training
  • Datamine Software Training
  • Sirovision (Datamine) Training
  • Energy Champions Training
  • Gold Plant Technology Workshop (Gekko Systems)
  • Women in Mining Conference
  • Technical and artisanal training programmes for mechanics, electricians, instrumentation technicians and boilermakers
  • Training in operating engineering equipment, fabrication, repair works, drill and blast, ground water engineering, rock mechanics as well as diagnostics and fault-finding
Investment in training

Since 2014, we have invested over US$19.2m in various competency-enhancement and professional development programmes for our people.