Sarah
- Job title: Training Manager
- Business area: Human Resources
- Year joined: 1998
Hi Sarah, if you could tear yourself away from your trophies for a moment, we'd like to hear about the culture at Enterprise.
Ah, hello there! Well basically, at university I had awful visions of being stuck in an office on my own, looking at numbers all day with no promotional opportunities in sight, being good but not getting to the next level because of some old boys network or because I was female. But then I found Enterprise.
Part of the fun here is the fact that things move along very quickly. The formal management training programme took me as far as Assistant Manager, but the training and development continues as long as you want it to. I was an Area Manager, and I've just been promoted to Training Manager, which I'm delighted by, and I love my new role. Not to mention the money, car and phone, ahem.
People are very supportive, and part of this probably comes from the fact that the more people I promote, the more I'll be promoted myself, so a victory for my team is one for me too. I think this is why we get on so well and socialise so much - in fact just last weekend our Elite Club went to see the England game, which was really good fun.
All the friendliness doesn't make it soft though. After all, we're fundamentally running a business within the service industry, and that takes a lot of commitment. There's healthy competition as we're all very results-driven and want to do well. I like the freedom too - nothing's rigid here. If you've got a sound idea and it's financially and operationally viable, then they're likely to go for it. Enterprise knows that if they look after us, we'll look after our customers and the rest will come. And they certainly do look after us, as you can see by these glittering beauties in front of me.
