With a new world of working out there full of quiet quitters, Great Resigners, and remote-or-nothing hardliners, professional development is one focus that is sure to make a job attractive in the long term to those with what Joni Mitchell called the urge for going. The grass may be greener at a different job, but it’s absolutely Technicolor if you can work your way up to a more substantial role at the company you’re already at.
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Developing our existing talent is incredibly important to nCino. When our employees succeed, our company succeeds too. Whether you’re an entry-level employee looking to build a solid foundation to your career, a newly promoted manager or someone in between, we want to help you reach your full potential. We offer multiple training and development opportunities, such as live, instructor-led continuing education training sessions that focus on topics like time management, influencing without authority and SMART goals. Employees can also enroll in self-serve, industry specific training modules that are readily available on our Learning Manager Systems. In addition, we have a robust, six-month Leadership Development program that focuses on training new managers following a promotion. On top of these in-house development opportunities, nCino also budgets funds for employees to attend conferences and earn certifications that will bring new knowledge to both the employee and the rest of their team. By offering resources and building employees’ confidence, we create a culture of constant growth and excitement, which allows our company and our employees to succeed.
How does it benefit your company to develop your employees?
Developing employees is one of the single-most important aspects of a thriving and healthy organization. Your talent is your business’s most important asset, and any investment in their growth can improve loyalty and retention while increasing workplace productivity and creativity. By offering resources and opportunities, we are able to retain our existing talent and attract new talent, which creates balance in our company. Two of our core values are Bring Your A-Game and Be a Winner, and professional development is one way we help employees live those values. By hiring talented individuals and providing them with resources to perform at the top of their game, we create a culture where everyone can be a winner.
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At Gainwell Technologies, we understand that career goals don’t end the moment you are hired. Our talent and development ecosystem has many layers that support employees’ professional development. These include formal, informal and experiential learning opportunities, individual development plans, continuous performance reviews and strategic goal-setting for all employees. Gainwell also offers a generous educational assistance program for certifications and degrees, including PhDs. With the support of our external learning partner and vendor network, we provide career mobility opportunities for an unmatched employee experience.
How does it benefit your company to develop your employees?
Gainwell’s professional development initiatives empower our staff to be effective managers and leaders while improving employee engagement and retention. With these programs, we aim to stimulate new ideas and business opportunities, thus promoting the continued success of the organization and advancing our corporate growth strategy. Gainwell is actively preparing our workforce for the future and, in turn, empowering them to develop their skills and competencies, giving us all a distinct competitive advantage. With more engaged employees driving our business forward and excited about their future with the company, we experience greater retention, reducing the burden associated with a continuous recruitment cycle.
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Appian is known for supporting the professional development of our employees, especially through the AppianRise Affinity Group. The mission of the group is to create an inclusive community dedicated to sparking meaningful discussion about personal and professional developments for employees early in their careers. They host a number of mentorship programs, provide resources, and connect people outside of everyday work. It’s also about creating a space where it’s okay to not know your five year career plan. No one really does!
How does it benefit your company to develop your employees?
Having a thriving group like AppianRise helps us build connections across our teams. It’s been so rewarding to see how having another peer in an employee’s corner makes a huge difference in their work experience. These positive impacts create a better culture within Appian that lays the foundation for future teamwork.
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The Hollister Group showcases its commitment to developing existing employees through our internal Leadership Training Program hosted by our world-class Cultures division. In this program new and emerging leaders are given the tools to have meaningful, productive, and compassionate conversations with their reports, reframe the importance of networking both inside and outside of the organization, and to co-design working relationships that best support everyone involved.
How does it benefit your company to develop your employees?
Developing our existing employees is critical for building an organization that is fully committed to the culture we are working to create and maintain. We want to show that we reward our employee’s commitment and hard work, and we believe that they are the best people to lead others in the same direction.
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Online provides each “Onliner” (what we call our employees) a budget of days and dollars to invest in professional development – up to $3,000 and 80 hours annually – which they can use towards industry conferences, books, internally offered courses, university and other external courses, professional association membership fees, certifications, and more. Other important aspects of our professional development offerings include leadership and technical book clubs, LEAP (Let’s Engage and Progress) Hours, and our Career Mentor program (deemed one of our best benefit offerings), which draws on the skills and experience of our more senior team members to coach and mentor other Onliners in their professional growth and development.
How does it benefit your company to develop your employees?
Our Onliners see our professional development program as a huge bonus and recognize that it is one of the best in the industry. Our career growth initiatives are driven by our core values “Forward Thinking: We are always evolving” and “Passion: We are energized by what we do.” Onliners continually look for opportunities to be innovative and to improve the way things are done – anything from improving everyday processes to developing new practices or service lines to developing innovative solutions for our clients. In order for our business to continue to grow, we must ensure we are cultivating an environment where all our team members can grow and thrive.
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First Advantage recently launched a Global Mentorship Program, a new initiative designed for team members to inspire and empower their peers to further develop their careers. Mentors are matched with a mentee, and they meet monthly to discuss personal and professional development. Drawing from their years of experience and expertise, the mentor provides advice and guidance on how the mentee can achieve their career goals. In 2019, the organization implemented a robust training program for front-line and emerging leadership known as SOAR. The award-winning program (2021 Best Impact/ROI Study Business recipient awarded by the ROI Institute) is a six-month learning experience designed to empower managers and build leaders. By participating in the program, employees receive the tools they need to effectively manage themselves and their teams while growing as leaders in a fast-paced, technology-driven organization.
How does it benefit your company to develop your employees?
At First Advantage, continuous learning is a key part of growth and retaining talent. Whether it’s through on-the-job training, leadership development in SOAR, 30k+ custom courses available in an Employee Advantage e-learning portal, tech workforce programs, or mentorship, lifelong learning is supported and part of First Advantage’s culture. Investing in professional development increases employee engagement, leads to a positive work culture, and develops leadership skills for continued success.
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At Newfold, we believe that learning is deeply tied to how we perform as an organization across Management, Customer, Investor and Business metrics, satisfying all our respective stakeholders. So, for us, learning is not a HR mandate but a business priority that translates to a solid investment across the following areas: 1. Top learning platforms where every Newfold team member – or ‘Newfolder’ – can access a wealth of learning and upskilling opportunities and get exposed to new passion areas. 2. Thoughtfully designed learning interventions that tie into the business purpose, goals and leadership competencies that we desire every Newfolder to demonstrate for high performance. 3. Programs that are deeply rooted in our ethos, culture and core values, which reinforce our basic cultural tenets. 4. Programs that help every Newfolder develop and grow, with a focus on personal efficacy, emotional and psychological fitness. The Newfold team also believes that “Knowledge must be made abundantly available and shared with the industry at large.” With that in mind, we are heavily investing in our Global Experts Speak speaker series where we invite inspiring people from all walks of life across multiple discipling to share their wisdom and expertise with the entire Newfold family (employees, potential candidates and even former Newfolders).
How does it benefit your company to develop your employees?
Ensuring that our employees are upskilled and future-ready helps us achieve results faster and more effectively. There is a strong correlation between how skilled and evolved our employees are and how happy our customers are with us, and that dynamic creates true business value. For us, developing our employees is an investment we are proud of, and we will continue to progress and be a trailblazer in this space.
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At Octane, inspiring growth through new opportunities is much more than just a promotion – it’s about building our people’s skills and capabilities to set them up for success now and in the future. To ensure everyone on our team has individualized support on their unique career journeys, managers regularly check-in with direct reports on their career goals and aspirations, and we’re building a formal mentor program, as well as career pathing to ensure visibility as our people grow their careers with the company. We provide cross-functional, hands-on development opportunities that align with our people’s goals, and we offer leadership and management training to help our newly promoted and existing managers best support our teams. We’re also rolling-out Octane University to help our team learn about topics that matter to them and their career in addition to a $3,000 yearly education stipend per employee.
How does it benefit your company to develop your employees?
Development opportunities can both help employees stay engaged and improve retention because when people grow their careers, the individual, their team, and the company benefits. We encourage our people to learn new skills, strengthen their expertise, and provide feedback to help us improve and expand the learning and development opportunities we provide, which in turn drives growth and innovation across the company.
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Sunrun heavily invests in employees by providing an array of professional development opportunities. We begin by creating employee obsessed learning experiences delivered by our intuitive learning management system, Sol. We empower employees to master their talents with LinkedIn Learning and PowerU (Power University) programs. Our learning and support structures aren’t just designed for employee advancement within Sunrun but also provide employees with the tools to grow in a dynamic workplace and within their personal lives.
How does it benefit your company to develop your employees?
The most crucial aspect of Sunrun’s professional development program is the natural cultivation of a learning culture. This reflects in the loyalty of our current employees and the attraction of top talent from other organizations. We don’t hire and keep employees; we attract and retain high-performing talent.
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Elsevier is focused on the professional development of our people through a plethora of resources available to everyone globally. Through well-thought-out mentoring and coaching programs, we bring the best out of our people. We utilize our Skillsoft’s digital learning platform to offer 24/7 easy access to thousands of engaging on-demand courses, videos, podcasts, books, and audiobooks. In addition, utilizing our signature Development program, we empower our people to take an inventory of their values, skills, interests, and lifestyle aspirations to further develop their professional acumen and manage their careers.
How does it benefit your company to develop your employees?
It benefits our organization to develop our people because people are more engaged and committed when they see a path of career development and progression ahead of them. In the grand scheme of things, this encourages innovation and high performance as well as positive effects on staff retention, turnover, and recruitment.
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We do this by ensuring our programs meet the diverse needs of our employees and meet the right needs at the right time. Our programs include management development, a comprehensive suite of on-demand content from a leading publisher and ad hoc team training to meet the specific needs of our diverse teams. We also encourage every full time employee to utilize and take advantage of the annual learning stipend that is available to them to pursue additional developmental opportunities.
How does it benefit your company to develop your employees?
Making the investment in our talent benefits Fivetran by ensuring our teams have constantly developed skills keeping them at the top of their game. We benefit from having employees with emerging skills that can handle the ever growing demands of our business and, finally, it benefits us as our partners, customers and clients all know we take pride in our team, we make ongoing development a part of our culture and that means we have some of the most skilled professionals here at Fivetran.
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At SmileDirectClub, we believe that our Team Members deserve a job they’ll love, today, tomorrow, and into the future. We are focused on creating top-tier professional development programming for all Team Members. We recently launched what we call The Career Experience – a robust program and journey that gives our Team Members the tools and resources to work with their leader to build out their career path. We have very detailed role profiles for each area of the business that provides our Team Members with visibility to the key competencies and capabilities needed for each role. This gives our Team Members the ability to plan out their future and see the different opportunities available to them throughout the organization so they can be the drivers of their own success.
How does it benefit your company to develop your employees?
With the great resignation still afloat, it is key that employers provide an engaging culture where Team Members feel they belong and can thrive and develop. It benefits a company to foster its talent’s development in-house as the company continues to grow. Investing in your Team Members increases retention and loyalty, while also increasing workplace productivity, collaboration and creativity.
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We are heavily invested in the development of our talent at all levels of the organization. There are thousands of hours of digital content available as well as in-person development events and hybrid training opportunities that are a blend of self learning, study groups and virtually facilitated discussions. We know from Employee Opinion surveys that our talent development is one of the top three reasons that employees like most about working at LG.
How does it benefit your company to develop your employees?
Development is an investment that the company makes in employees that in turn will bring future growth and innovation for the company. We believe that the more we develop the skill sets of employees they will then leverage their own growth to the success of the company. In so many ways, ‘development’ is the gift that we give to employees that gives back to the company in exponential ways.
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At Workhuman, growth and development extends beyond traditional performance reviews; we strive to cultivate an inclusive learning environment that helps employees develop professionally and personally. We customize professional development programs based on the needs and interests of our employees. We achieve this is through our ‘Spark Coaching’ program, an inclusive coaching initiative, where coaching is an accessible growth possibility for ALL employees, offering two growth and development opportunities: 1) Partner with a Workhuman Coach and 2) Train to become a Workhuman Coach.
How does it benefit your company to develop your employees?
Workhuman invests in employee development by promoting an environment of wellbeing, connection, and appreciation, where we aim to unleash the passion and potential of every employee. When employees are fully engaged and passionate about their work, our company sees increased employee satisfaction, retention, innovation, resilience, and high-performing teams—results that help Workhuman achieve goals and growth year over year.
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Our professional development approach not only includes a personalized budget for everyone to drive their own learning, but also several key internal offerings that meet the unique needs of our learners. Some of these internal offerings include a cohort-based virtual leadership development program for our new managers, a seasonal one-to-one global & cross-brand mentoring experience, and on-demand access to 6,000+ top-rated, engaging courses with Udemy for Business. We are continuously listening to our learners and external business trends at large to ensure we are ahead of the curve when providing professional development offerings.
How does it benefit your company to develop your employees?
We believe that learning in all aspects of life enriches us not just as working professionals, but also as human beings. We aim to offer diverse learning experiences that spark curiosity and growth on our employees’ journeys to becoming the best version of themselves!
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Chipotle offers clear pathways to success and industry-leading education benefits to develop the company’s future leaders. In partnership with Guild Education, Chipotle offers debt-free degrees to all eligible U.S. employees and tuition reimbursement up to $5,250 per year that can be applied to any accredited college, university course, job certificate program, or trade school. Employees have a quarterly 4×4 conversation with their manager to reflect on their performance and goals for the future quarter, with the sessions providing a forum for regular mentorship and development. Additionally, Chipotle’s School of Leadership Development, a suite of leadership development learnings, includes the LEAD Program – Leadership Evolution And Development – for high potential employees, BetterUp professional coaching for emerging leaders in both the field and at the support centers, and the CultivateMe mentoring program that pairs front line and field-based employees with senior operations and functional leaders in Chipotle’s Restaurant Support Centers.
How does it benefit your company to develop your employees?
With plans to more than double its footprint in North America, Chipotle is passionate about providing opportunities for professional development to grow into the company’s future leaders. Chipotle has programs to accelerate the development of its diverse field organization and support center employees for promotion to above restaurant and next level roles. As a promote from within company, in 2021, 90% of our restaurant management roles were internal promotions, including 79% of Chipotle’s general managers. The retention rate is two times higher among employees enrolled in the education assistance program, and crew members participating are six times more likely to move into a management role.
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Veracode is committed to helping individuals explore all the career and development opportunities that a high-growth and innovative environment offers – learning new skills, building on interests, and achieving career objectives. We encourage Veracoders to take advantage of our extensive growth and development offerings. Whether you thrive in a self-paced learning environment or in classroom-style workshops, we’ve got Veracoders covered. In addition to our learning programs, Veracoders have access to several other opportunities to learn their own way, such as tuition reimbursement and access to external training and conferences.
How does it benefit your company to develop your employees?
Veracode continues to invest in growth and innovation in our products and supporting our people to grow in their careers is just as important to us. Our talent is our biggest and most important asset so developing employees is critical to our growth as an organization. Investing in growing our talent results in stronger, more capable, and more skilled individuals who are more satisfied with their roles and their opportunities to progress.
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SWCA has developed our award-winning Career Landscape professional development program, which gives employees great insight into career paths at the company and how to build specific skills to achieve growth goals. SWCA requests each employee to create a Professional Development Plan, which includes employee interests, goals, and focus areas for development. Leaders are expected to engage with employees on their Professional Development Plans, providing key support in each employee’s development.
How does it benefit your company to develop your employees?
SWCA seeks to differentiate itself from other employers, especially those in our industry, by creating a unique and powerful culture that accelerates the growth of our employees. We know that as employees realize opportunities for growth, they’ll want to remain at SWCA. They’ll be eager to recommend SWCA as a great place to work. This helps us build a more sustainable process for developing the talent we need to thrive as an organization.