RCC High Performer’s Program

Growing our High Performers

At RCC, we believe our high performers are our future leaders. It’s our mission to guide and prepare them for continued learning, development and career growth.

This year, we kicked off our High Performer’s Program with a workshop focused on resilience, critical thinking, self-belief and goal setting. 

Forming part of our ‘Grow Our Own’ strategy, the program supports our mission to develop our employees and prepare them for continued career growth. Our Senior Leadership Team identifies our top talent and selects high performers to be included in the program each year.

This program is designed to support our high performers with leadership skills, paving their pathways to future RCC leadership positions. Each session enables our participants to apply learning that encourages new ways of thinking and productive self-reflection.

Congratulations to everyone for kicking off such a successful event and a special thanks to Julien Prosser, Director at Slight Edge Consulting Australia, for facilitating such a dynamic discussion. 

Supporting the Starlight Express Room

Shining a light on the Starlight Children’s Foundation

At RCC, we feel privileged to do what we love – especially for incredible causes like the Starlight Children’s Foundation. Our recent refurbishment of the Starlight Express Room at John Hunter Hospital in Newcastle transformed this vibrant community recreational area for brave children and their families.

Uniting with talented industry partners at cost price, our aim was to enhance the experiences of children, families and the Starlight team with a collaborative, modern environment.

 

Starlight staff and families now enjoy abundant natural light from new windows, plus updated interiors, a new kitchen, recording & broadcasting studio, entertainment stations including video games and arts & crafts, and a stage for performers and movie screenings.

The Starlight Express Room is situated off a main corridor leading into the Children’s Ward at John Hunter Hospital. Complying with hospital infection control requirements during construction in the live hospital environment, our team also maintained clear and unobstructed access to the Children’s Ward and implemented strict procedures around waste and dust control.

Thank you to all the generous and talented local contractors and consultants who we proudly worked with to deliver this rewarding project.

Women's Forum Series

Womens Forum Series

RCC’s first Women’s Forum, based on the topic of ‘resilience’, featured a keynote speech from a strong and inspirational Australian philanthropist, Susan Alberti. Female staff came together from across NSW and ACT to listen, discuss, network and of course… lunch.

The RCC Women’s Forum Series is designed to provide our female staff with the opportunity to network, share knowledge and access personal and professional development in a supportive, relaxed and fun environment. RCC understands the need to support our staff and the wider industry to ensure women in construction have access to a level playing field and can be professionally and personally successful.

Laura Durkan, Head of Human Resources, says she feels the Women’s Forum Series is a critical element in delivering on RCC’s commitment to diversity and inclusion. “We are grateful to have an incredible cohort of women working for RCC. This is an opportunity for us to show them how valued their input into the day-to-day and long term strategic operations of our business is”

RCC’s commitment to diversity is about more than fairness and retaining our fantastic staff; we believe that diversity breeds innovation and drives the growth of a stronger RCC and construction industry.

Laura says the decision to choose ‘resilience’ as the theme for the first Womens Forum was inspired by “the stories of some of RCC’s strongest female leaders and the fierce dedication, self-belief and mental toughness which has supported them throughout their careers. We wanted to give the women in our business an opportunity to share their personal and industry experience and find strength in that shared knowledge and support network”. The key note speech, workshops and presentations on the day inspired a robust discussion around the current state of ‘women in construction’ and will inform the organisations action plan to work toward a diverse and inclusive industry.

We sincerely thank Susan Alberti who joined us on the day to share her incredible story. Her journey and resilience under testing circumstances is inspirational and speaks to her guts and determination.
As the Women’s Forum was structured as a lunch and learn event, the day would not have been complete without the addition of a delicious lunch, supplied by the skillful Little Jones Food Co.

 

Lunch - Little Jones & Co

Ladies Lunching

Susan Alberti