Philips 2010 Annual Report Download - page 53

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Grow with Philips
Developing our people is one of our core values, so in
2010 we launched ‘Grow with Philips’, a program that
opens up more opportunities for change and growth.
We have always sought to develop our employees’ skills,
so that they can maximize and reach their potential and
increase their contribution to the company’s success. We
start by encouraging staff to annually discuss and plan their
ambitions with their departmental and HR managers.
Employees are then encouraged to develop themselves by
gaining new skills and competences on the job, using our
extensive training programs and supported by coaching
and mentoring programs.
The new ‘Grow with Philips’ program adds to those
efforts, with two new important components. The first
makes it easier for our employees to grow their careers
across functions, business units and geographies. By
simply ticking a special box on their online employee
profile they indicate that they are interested in changing
jobs within Philips. This enables our recruiters to pro-
actively search for suitable people within our organization
before conducting an external search. Although vacancies
are still posted online for all Philips people to see, this new
approach makes internal recruiting faster and more
thorough, with less dependence on people reacting to job
postings. By allowing every employee to easily indicate
they are available for a move, we create a transparent
internal labor market and promote internal mobility.
The second main component of ‘Grow with Philips’ is the
new training possibilities that are now available. After
researching the training needs of our people, we found
that they prefer informal ‘bite-size’ training modules,
which give them advice and information when they need it.
Hence, in 2010 we created our Learning@Philips web
portal, a wide-ranging database of training modules that