Your Development
Your Career and Development Journey
Our biggest asset is our people. We take pride in investing in our people to empower and bring out the best in all our colleagues, ensuring that we can continue to grow both as individuals and as One Vestas. We want to provide opportunities for everyone to develop their potential, strengthen their competencies, and prepare for future roles and responsibilities.
Continuous Development
To support and allow everyone to reach their full potential, we sustain a continuous people process with development at its core.
With our performance and development process, “Continuous Performance & Development” (CPD), managers and employees have regular check-ins throughout the year where topics such as well-being, development, career aspirations, and performance are discussed. In the CPD dialogue, employees are evaluated based on our values.
We aim to create a steppingstone to continuously discuss aspirations and set objectives to support our people’s ambitions in the coming year. Thereby, we want to ensure that their career is heading in the right direction for them and for Vestas.
How We Learn at Vestas
We consider learning to be fundamental to our employees’ development and growth. At Vestas, we develop our colleagues' core and functional skills. Core skills are skills that are core to all of us regardless of our job, region, or function, while functional skills are technical skills specific to any given function and role.
Our learning approach is founded on the 3Es model which bases itself on the principles of multiple learning sources:
That’s why we offer blended learning formats, including traditional virtual classroom trainings, workshops, mentoring, e-learning, gamified learning, on-the-job experiences, etc. We have a full library of world-class courses to choose from within a wide variety of topics and skills. In this way, we aim to meet the different learning needs and behaviours of our colleagues, and we allow them to tailor their development and learning journey to their specific goals and ambitions.
Our Talent Programmes
As part of our people strategy, we prepare selected employees within our talent programmes to take on pivotal roles within the organisation - positions that wield significant influence and have a profound impact on our business.
With different programmes targeted towards different levels of the organisation, we aim to offer best-in-class development opportunities across the organisation while building a pipeline of future Vestas leaders.
The purpose of the different talent programmes is to provide a group of selected employees with a targeted 10-month development experience designed to accelerate their personal and leadership growth.
Throughout the programmes, participants have rich opportunities for self-reflection, mentoring, feedback, and sparring regarding their career, while providing participants with leadership tools and knowledge as well as a chance to build global networks across the organisation.
The Vestas Graduate Programme is also part of our talent programme offerings. You can read much more about the graduate programme here.
Regional Talent Programme
The Regional Talent Programmes at Vestas aim to strengthen our leadership pipeline by focusing on succession planning with a regional perspective. Dependent upon career stage and path, the programmes empower the transition of those identified as successors, moving into new roles in the next corporate level. We expose our participants to the business to promote their career development to the benefit of Vestas and themselves. The programme contributes to Vestas' performance, engagement and builds the foundation for scaling Vestas by the leadership in the organisation.
The Regional Talent Programme has been a cornerstone in my development as a leader. It has not only enhanced my understanding of myself but also provided a clear pathway to elevate my capabilities in business and people management.
Anandh Krishnamoorthy, Director, Global Siting Solutions
Participating in the Talent Programme helped me a lot to start a journey on reflecting on my personal values and how I can use these to enable myself to become an inclusive and authentic leader.
Cord Ruprecht, Head of After sales / Upgrades, Special Projects
Participating in the Talent Programme has fundamentally changed how I view leadership as a non-people leader. My understanding of leading horizontally within our matrix organization to push processes to be more sustainable has been greatly enhanced.
Christine Troy, Specialist, Platform, Performance Engineering
The Regional Talent Programme has been a truly transformative experience, fostering global networking, self-discovery, and a deeper understanding of our company. This journey has created a strong sense of belonging, encouraging us to push boundaries and support each other’s growth, shaping us into better leaders for a bright Vestas future.
Ines Fernandes Moura Soares, Senior Project Manager, Tower Project Management