A year of human development

We invest in all our colleague’s growth so that everyone can develop and express their individual talents. During 2010, we were proud to have invested more than 4% of our total salary billing training and development, with everyone at UCB benefiting from training. Overall, more than 5 000 training plans were completed, enabling us to strengthen compliance across key areas of our business.  

The focus for each employee during the year was their Personal Development Plan. These individual plans allow employees to define their personal career objectives and how they can be achieved through training, mentoring or internal mobility.

In addition, 2010 saw the creation of a new training governance model. A group of qualified, internally elected “deans” are now mandating, offering and coordinating the functional and technical trainings for our entire workforce.

We have also designed high-quality, in-house leadership development programmes so that we can nurture authentic, self-aware, strong and balanced leaders. These programmes are currently being revisited to support the new employee demographics and talent dynamics established over the last years of transformation.

A newly developed global training system manages the UCB employee training plans. The system currently covers internal and on-line training programmes.  It tracks the training performance of 84% of our staff.  In 2010, each employee devoted an average of 17 hours to these training programmes (blue collars and administrative staff: 20 hours; sales force and managers staff: 16 hours; senior management: 10 hours).