Initial, ongoing and further training
Junior staff development and training
Junior staff development and good internal training play a crucial role in ensuring the competitiveness of Group companies. A total of 720 young employees participated 2007 in training schemes of German companies. Around 75% of the staff in training who finished their training in 2007 closed a work contract. The proportion of staff in training rose from 6.5% to 6.7% and was thus kept at the previous year’s high level. TUI again participated in the ‘Fit for a job application’ project in 2007. Within this project, TUI HR managers supported young people in compiling their job application documents and preparing for job interviews.
Development of senior and executive staff
The steady expansion of HR development activities for senior and executive staff was reconfigured in 2007. Following the inclusion of methods for international top management into capability analysis procedures in 2006, activities focused in particular on the implementation and assessment of personalised development schemes for this group of participants in 2007. Besides specific technical programmes, demand rose for executive coaching. The trainee programme and HR activities for middle management functions focused on providing junior staff with the skills needed to meet the increasingly complex requirements. These groups of employees also increasingly benefited from coaching as a measure to promote the personal development of individuals. .