The initiative’s objective is to regularly benchmark E.ON’s job families (functional skill segments) against competition, and trigger targeted professional development programs as well as recruiting drives to secure a sustainable competitive advantage in our skills portfolio, diversity, and demographics.

 

Based on the E.ON job families and sub-families across E.ON the dedicated Functional Academies will be implemented as professional learning centers to close diagnosed skill gaps vis-à-vis ambitious group standards. The E.ON Trading Academy, Project Academy, IT Academy and Procurement Academy are meanwhile operational and considered as a benchmark in the corporate learning world. They will be complemented by the E.ON Sales & Marketing Academy, the E.ON Finance and Controlling Academy and the HR Academy during 2008. The curricula of each Functional Academy are tailored to the specific needs of the respective business function likewise. Their students are managers and employees of the corresponding job family.

 

Competence Management will simultaneously facilitate OneE.ON and the integration of new E.ON units - through an aligning of development programs within job families to match E.ON’s high professional standards and through consistent corporate learning support of our strategic objectives.