Ensuring and improving Fortum’s competitiveness requires the continuous development of every Fortum employee’s knowledge, skills and know-how. Personnel development is supported through annual performance and development reviews, personnel training, and internal job rotation.
Fortum aims to create attractive career and development opportunities for individuals to continuously row their professional skills and know-how. Personnel development is supported through annual performance and development reviews in which all Fortum employees are in scope, personnel training and internal job rotation.
During the first half of 2011, Fortum conducted two different types of leadership training programmes, Fortum Manager and Fortum Expert. The Fortum Manager training programme is designed for all supervisors in need of basic skills related to daily management. The Fortum Expert programme is tailored to the experts’ needs in managerial, communication and collaboration skills.
In addition to Finland and Sweden, Fortum Master courses, aimed for all Fortum’s managers, were organised also in the Baltic countries and Poland. In 2011, a total of 347 participants attended in the courses, and the number of Fortum Master training days totalled 38.
Fortum Forerunner is a trainee programme meant for recent university graduates. During the 18-month-long programme, trainees have the opportunity to work at variable assignments in different business environments and to get acquainted with Fortum’s operations and the energy industry. The current trainee programme started in January 2011 and the trainees are from Finland, Sweden, Russia, Poland and Latvia.