Enel considers its employees an important resource and asset and is constantly engaged in ensuring them the opportunity to acquire the necessary technical, professional, and managerial capabilities.
To this end it provides training courses differentiated according to their category and individual needs, thus also promoting the professional expertise to form the future leadership of the Company.
In accordance with Enel’s capability model, training course focus on three essential objectives:
- Professional development, to increase technical and professional capabilities that distinguish the different areas of competence and professional families
- Managerial development, to expand the ability to integrate and the overall vision of the business. These courses are addressed to people in different areas, who are selected without regard to their professional family
- Personal development, to strengthen the attitudes and organizational behaviour expected in the different corporate roles. Every year, in cooperation with the Group’s divisions and companies, Enel University, the internal facility specifically dedicated to education, develops a Training Plan designed and carried out by in-house resources and highly qualified external professional contributions.
Together with these programmes, professional rotations are planned, as well as assessments of the abilities and personalized paths, based on individual improvement potentials. With regard to Italy, in 2010 the activities focused on managerial training courses to complete the Leadership Curriculum.The latter consists of the set of training courses that have the general objective of accompanying and supporting people during the most important moments of their professional career, such as when they join the Company, receive promotions and are selected for the talent team or the executive team, etc. In 2010, the three main areas of work for Enel University regarded the systemization and revision of several key initiatives that complement the Leadership Curriculum, support for the integration of the countries of the International Division, and the development of new technical and functional academies.
