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Training & Development

In an ever-changing business environment, ongoing, high-quality additional training is the prerequisite for our performance, and the driving force behind the success of the IBM business divisions.

The knowledge and skills of our staff safeguard IBM's competitiveness and future viability. The learning targets and offerings at IBM are geared towards the needs of the changing business world to continuously develop the business and social skills of our staff and broaden their experience.

The skill management process is an established procedure at IBM to build and develop the expertise of each employee.

The personal skills and career plan of each individual member of staff, as well as the individual objectives, result in specific learning needs that act as the basis to the individual development plan (IDP). The creation of an individual development plan is an important building block in our employees' development. The development measures the plan contains open up new opportunities to acquire more skills and competencies and accept greater responsibility.

The objective and development plan is devised in close collaboration with the employee's immediate superior within the framework of the training plans of the business areas that are geared towards the business strategy and customer needs and include the development prospects of the workers.

Apart from in the classroom, nowadays knowledge is imparted more and more using IT-based learning programs. This includes the IBM Intranet, blended learning, live virtual classrooms and a wide range of e-learning modules. E-learning allows employees to have a flexible, self-governed learning environment which can be aligned to the concrete needs of the business units and their customers.

Coaching and mentoring can play a significant role in actively tracking personal development measures and providing new prospects for your individual career. Being able to talk to your superior or mentor and clarify targets, understand the current situation, develop options and derive action items offers great potential for personal development.

Learning on the job gives you the most critical experience, accompanied by lots of information from the Intranet, Internet or IBM literature.

Thus, the development of your personal career goes far beyond the ability to take courses.

Technical and management career. Form the dual career development system at IBM. The technical career normally involves specific certification while the management career is supported by theory-based management training.

IBM provides all its employees with a wide and comprehensive portfolio to actively and independently drive their own career forward.