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Advancing the next generation of executives is of major importance to us. This is the only way we can ensure lasting, successful staffing of managerial positions from within our own ranks and offer our employees bright prospects for their personal development. We support outstanding talent throughout the Group. We take long-term action to develop our future executives in order to prepare them for their future tasks. The programmes run by RWE Group companies have certain common themes: They lay the cornerstone for leadership; improve communication skills; teach conflict management; motivate candidates to reflect on their future roles in management and strengthen entrepreneurial thinking and action. Since 2003, talented people at RWE AG have been selected to participate in our “Junior Development Programme.” The programme focuses on supervising individuals and groups, facilitating discussions, change and conflict management, and controlling systems. Some 60 employees have completed the programme so far.
Our qualification management system is a tool that enables us to record, analyze and direct our staff’s skills. Our staff enter their qualifications into the system themselves, based on a groupwide, standardized catalogue that includes all of the qualifications that are of relevance to the Group. Job requirements have been defined for every position, against which we compare employee skills. This way, we can identify action to add qualifications where necessary and initiate special personnel development measures early on. At the same time, we can see where staff needs emerge that cannot be served with in-house personnel, thus requiring recruitment activity on the external labour market.
We are developing simulations of various future scenarios. They will help us identify risks in personnel management early on and put us in a position to take measures to prevent impending staff shortages effectively. One way to do this is by engaging in personnel marketing activities or offering internal development programmes.
