Career development and training
Individual support and encouragement
Individual career development is an important component of our Human Resources work. Our development programs are open to all employees and are geared to building on personal strengths and compensating for possible weaknesses.
We attach importance to management being actively engaged in this process. Managers are required to conduct structured performance reviews with employees every year during which individual objectives are established in accordance with the goals of the divisions and the bank. In addition, individual training programs are discussed.
Promote capabilities
Talent management also serves to match the strengths and capabilities of individuals with the strategic needs of the bank and to choose the best position for every employee. This is of strategic significance especially for succession planning.
In these performance and potential evaluations, managers meet to discuss the performance level and their employees’ commitment, who are then given feedback on the report. In this way, our employees better understand how their performance is evaluated.
Independent learning
Through our electronic training platform “db Learn,” we offer more than 3,000 different seminars. These range from specialist courses and leadership and management trainings to seminars on personality and team development.
Since 2009, the first module of our new online-based learning program on sustainability is also available on the “db Learn” training platform.
A culture of lifelong learning
We already launched our program “Staying Fit for the Job” (“In eigener Sache – fit in die berufliche Zukunft”) in 2006. It promotes a culture of lifelong learning and helps our employees strengthen their skills and capabilities to maintain and enhance their employability.
“Staying Fit for the Job” offers instruments for analyzing the employees’ own skills and experience profiles, and support them in determining their own individual objectives. Since its launch in 2006, a website set up specifically for this program has been visited a total of 50,000 times, with more than 10,000 registered users taking advantage of the innovative offers.
In 2009, we received the Employability Award for the second time for the program, which also contributes to the nationwide German program “Initiative for Employment! (in German)“