EMPLOYEES AND THE WORKPLACE
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Evolving skills
For companies to grow and prosper, employees must too. Jotun invests in building a culture of continuous
learning, constantly developing individual competency to meet the global business challenges of today
and tomorrow.
How does a company ensure 10 000 people work towards
the fulfilment of one strategy, performing to the best of their
abilities while also enjoying a stimulating, challenging and
satisfying professional career? Jotun believes the answer lies
in building a culture of continual learning, helping individuals
thrive so the business achieves global goals.
Platform for growth
Jotun has three competence development pillars:
• The Jotun Academy, a vital resource for strengthening
corporate culture and individual skills within key business
areas
• Digital Learning, whereby an advanced suite of digital tools
provides point-of-work learning and helps employees keep
pace with change
• Team Development, delivering workshops and tools to
enhance team effectiveness
These provide a platform whereby structured, targeted
training and support translates to lasting improvement and
behavioural change.
Management Academy Toolbox
In 2019, a new Management Academy Toolbox was launched.
This provides a one-stop-shop resource hosting everything
from Management Academy training, allowing users ease of
access to knowledge, best practices and tools based on Jotun’s
Leadership Development Path.
Digital Workplace
Tailoring and implementing the best digital tools is a growing
part of the competence equation, as seen in key 2019 activities.
Jotun engages with over 8 000 employees through digital
interfaces. Online delivery allows the Group to take a nimble
approach to learning; developing new content to meet demand
and seize opportunity when and where it’s needed, while
reducing delivery cost and optimising impact and convenience.
To ensure Jotun employees have the requisite computer skill
and understanding, the IT, Communications and Competence
Development departments joined forces in 2019 to deliver
Digital Workplace training. This involved certifying 220 trainers
globally to conduct a mandatory course aimed at enabling
better information sharing, data security, individual competency,
and enhanced operational efficiency across the Group.
As part of the second phase of this project, the training content
has now been converted to videos and made available online.
This will be continuously updated, ensuring employees can be
kept up to speed with new skillsets and developments. Moving
forward, custom content for specific functions is now planned,
allowing for more in-depth training.
Leadership Booster
Business strategy is only effective if it is implemented, and it
is only implemented if it is understood. From late 2018 into
COMPETENCE