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However, we need more than highly qualied, responsible managers; we also need excellent tech-
nicians and engineers whose ideas can fuel the Company’s success. It’s the outstanding expertise
of our technical experts and their relentless pursuit of innovation – sometimes even in the face of
opposition – that have made us a technology leader in many elds. Naturally, we want to give
these employees training and development opportunities. That’s why we’ve introduced a career
path for key technology experts analogous to that for our top managerial talents. In scal 2008,
we identied some 335 key experts at the Company.
Outstanding management through the Siemens Leadership Excellence program
Only managers who are committed to their goals, who implement the necessary measures and
who can inspire others to join them on the road to success can master the challenges of our time
and play an active role in shaping the future. The Siemens Leadership Excellence (SLE) program
prepares up-and-coming managers for their future tasks by teaching them valuable strategies and
familiarizing them with useful management tools, methods and procedures. What makes the SLE
program special is that leaders develop leaders. This approach creates a dynamic, worldwide net-
work of managers, allowing knowledge and experience to be shared and multiplied across the
Company and lling our management culture with life. Since the program was launched in Octo-
ber 2005, nearly all our senior managers – some 1,100 individuals worldwide – have taken part
in SLE courses. We also offer a wide range of training programs for non-managerial employees
through the Siemens Learning Campus. Building on our people’s qualications, we support their
ongoing personal development in order to help them optimize their performance and master the
professional challenges they face.