Talent programmes
Our senior leaders are committed to building
a strong leadership culture at DBS and take
an active role in nurturing talent and the
development of future leaders.
We introduced four new programmes in
2013 to groom recent diploma and degree
holders who aspire to excel in retail banking,
SME banking and customer service.
We identify the talent pool for more
senior employees by using an all-round
approach that includes the individual’s
performance, reviews by peers and
subordinates, and external talent
identification and management tools.
For this pool, we designed and built
new leadership programmes in 2013 to
supplement existing ones.
Internal mobility
As part of the process to nurture talent from
within, we have in place an internal mobility
programme since 2010. Staff are strongly
encouraged to leverage opportunities
provided by the programme to work across
departments, businesses and countries.
Employees holding corporate ranks up to
Assistant Vice-President who have worked
two years in their current role can seek to
be placed in a new role with two months’
notice. For more senior employees, the
corresponding periods are three years and
three months. In 2013, more than onequarter
of our positions were filled by
internal transfers.
We have a programme in place for senior
employees with high potential to be rotated
to different parts of the organisation. The
rotations include assignments to lead major
projects or stints with various businesses
or countries. In 2013, one-third of such
employees were given new job assignments
or expanded roles.