Aurubis AG, based in Hamburg, Germany, is a publicly traded, internationally active copper producer and copper recycler. The company produces over one million tons of copper cathodes annually, uses them to manufacture various copper products and employs more than 7,000 people.
The Aurubis Orientation Track (“O-Track”) starts in the 4th quarter of 2022 to accompany 34 talents on their learning journey to become managers, experts and project managers. In order to anchor habits and new learning in the long term, the 5-month program consisting of workshops, remote sessions and development talks was accompanied by self-directed learning with the Savvi app.
Talents improved in all predefined key competencies:
In addition to positive verbal feedback, the participants showed above-average commitment - 73% of all possible microtrainings were completed - and developed into a group with a strong sense of community.
The O-Track was developed to guide employees from the talent pool onto one of three learning paths: executive, expert, or project manager. The 5-month program to teach key competencies for building and teaching the Aurubis culture (e.g. feedback culture) should start in Q4 2022. A blended learning format was planned with workshops (on-site and virtual), personal coaching and self-directed learning.
The O-Track was developed together with external trainers. As part of the development, three key questions were raised:
Over the course of the 5-month program, the 34 talents deepened their knowledge in one of three tracks: executive, expert and project manager. New methods were taught through sessions led by trainers, personal coaching and remote sessions. Savvi was used by participants in the course of the O-track to regularly repeat what they had learned as part of self-directed learning and to apply it in everyday working life. Of all possible microtrainings, the group completed 73%. This corresponds to over 131 hours of self-directed learning in the Savvi app.
In addition, Savvi provided continuous insights into the development of talents, an evaluation of learning progress and thus created transparency about the strengths, development potential and interests of the participants. In addition to personal feedback, the Aurubis team and trainers thus had a data-driven evaluation basis for evaluating the O-Track.
In the four key competencies defined in advance, the participants developed as follows:
In addition to developing these key competences, the O-Track was a complete success in that the 34 talents developed into a community with great cohesion.