Investing In Our People
In FY12, we launched NikeU – an online platform for employee training and development in areas such as merchandising, retail, leadership and management that will help NIKE employees build capabilities to execute on our business strategy. Since the website went live, it has received more than 2.1 million visits, with 72% of visitors coming to the site more than once. More than 80% of employees who have access to the website (i.e., desk-and office-based employees), have signed up for NikeU accounts. As of the end of FY13, employees have taken 174,515 web-based sessions and 32,429 instructor-led sessions.
As NikeU grows, we are increasing the number of translated courses and building targeted and custom curricula for different functional areas within the company. We are also making the platform more widely available by designing programs accessible via mobile technologies and social platforms. This is critical for reaching our diverse population of global employees, including sales associates in our retail stores and our distribution center employees.
In addition, we equip our leaders to plan for, hire and grow individual talent; align strategy and manage team performance; celebrate and reward performance; and drive excellence across the organization. NikeU invests in professional skills development resources through collaborations with CEB and Harvard Business Publishing and its Harvard ManageMentor offering. In 2014 NikeU will launch Manager Core, including more than 40 courses translated into 24 languages.
In FY12 we introduced our Manager Manifesto, which outlines four core principles: lead, coach, drive excellence and inspire. We followed that with the launch of Manager Excellence – a global movement anchored by common frameworks, tools and shared experiences to help managers lead, coach, drive and inspire their employees to realize their individual and collective potential. Manager90 and Manager Journey are two key components of this initiative:
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