In my role as a people manager, I have a responsibility to be understanding and encouraging to help develop the people I manage; Hymans provides support and training to all people managers to ensure we are equipped with the knowledge and understanding to carry out the role effectively. People manager forums are also held to allow us to learn and share our experiences with other people managers across different departments.

I have people managed actuarial students and actuarial analysts and enjoy the different challenges that come with the role. During the time as a people manager, you become even more aware of how diverse everyone is – different motivations, drivers, skill sets and ideas about where they see their career growing amongst other things. Everyone is unique and their career paths will evolve and adapt over time which means no people management discussions are ever the same!  It is really great that Hymans encourages individuality and embraces diversity in the workplace: recognising that everyone is different and has their own strengths to bring to the Hymans table.