We believe in developing authentic leaders to grow people who really make a difference to customers and consumers. To this end, we continue to invest in leader capability initiatives in FY08.
We take both a skills practice and reflective learning approach to development. In doing so, we provide capability training for technical and leadership areas combined with on-the-job development opportunities supported by coaching. Some examples of the training provided to our people in 2008 are:
- Over 300 leaders participated in our Leadership Programme
- Over 120 people new to leadership roles attended the Endeavour new leader programme
- Online and face-to-face induction developed and launched for new starters, with 263 people attending face-to-face induction
- 2,000 people trained in core people processes, such as Achievement Review and Development Review
- Leadership 101 modules developed to build capability in core people processes
- Conducted Endeavour programme Phase 1 and Phase 2 refresh
- Workforce Planning rollout across operations in Australia and sales in New South Wales
- The new ‘MyPlanet’ People Process system launched on time and within budget and capability build delivered in all regions
- Lion Nathan Case study on best practice Business Integrated Talent Management published by the Washington based Corporate Leadership Council
- Over $2 million invested in operations technical training over the course of the year
- Over 200 people commenced learning units on best practice operation of manufacturing equipment
We also support our people in their personal endeavours to undertake further education that relates to their role or career via our education support policy.
All of our people receive high levels of constructive feedback, with regular one-on-ones with their leaders, yearly achievement plans and career development discussions. A key outcome
of our development review process is strong succession planning and creating an individual development plan for each person.
Our comprehensive sales and marketing capability programme continued in FY08 with particular focus on cross-functional learning within our commercial teams in order to share and embed best practice learnings.
Lion Keys for Consumers was launched in 2006 and 2007, providing best practice processes and insights to enable our marketing teams in Australia and New Zealand to create and champion brands our consumers adore.
In 2008, this was extended to Lion Keys for Customers, which was a major initiative touching every individual in our sales team with the objective of aligning our sales structure, processes, capability and technology to deliver our customer, channel and portfolio strategies.
We have also continued our capital works at major sites with the installation of some major plant and equipment. This has been supported by training for our operations people on the new equipment and alignment of our operations structure to world’s best practice standards. The new equipment has enabled greater overall efficiencies which resulted in a reduction of our energy (electricity and gas) and water usage
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