Yum! Brands Named One of Top 20 Learning and Development Companies by Chief Learning Officer Magazine’s 2015 LearningElite
April 29 2015 - 12:30PM
Business Wire
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Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE: YUM), one of the world’s largest
restaurant companies and parent of KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell,
has been named one of the Top 20 learning and development
organizations by Chief Learning Officer magazine’s 2015
LearningElite program. The Company was recognized as a Gold
LearningElite organization for 2015 for its unique and
comprehensive programs offered through its worldwide learning and
development platform, Yum! University. Yum! Brands is the only
quick-service restaurant company on the 2015 LearningElite
list.
Chief Learning Officer magazine’s LearningElite program honors
organizations that have implemented effective learning and
development best practices and programs for their workforces.
Developed through a collaboration of chief learning officers,
senior workforce development practitioners and the Human Capital
Media Research and Advisory Group, the LearningElite program ranks
organizations based on the execution and impact of their learning
and development initiatives. Yum! Brands ranked 17 from more than
200 applicants.
“Yum! Brands is honored to be recognized as a top company for
learning and development,” said Mark Lagestee, Vice President of
Global Talent and Organization Development, Yum! Brands. “Our
global learning culture is focused on building the capability of
our 1.5 million associates around the world. We’re passionate about
offering innovative tools, programs and learning platforms in order
to train and grow the next generation of leaders around the
globe.”
In addition to LearningElite, Yum! Brands is recognized as one
of Forbes’ America’s Best Employers in 2015 and as one of the 2014
Aon Hewitt Top Companies for Leaders® in North America for its
leadership development programs and practices. In addition, Chief
People Officer Anne Byerlein was named one of Forbes’ Top 10 Chief
Human Resources Officers this year. Over the years, Yum! has
created a unique people-first culture that is centered around
reward and recognition to drive results. Yum! Brands’ approach to
developing talent is customized and highly interactive. The Company
creates programs and offers training and tools around the world –
for restaurant team members to Restaurant Support Center employees
– in order to unlock individual talent and foster business and
personal growth.
Through Yum! University, the Company offers a variety of
classroom and online courses and workshops which are designed to
teach the skills and behaviors to build the capability of
above-restaurant leaders. As a center of excellence for learning
content and design, Yum! University partners with the Company’s
division training teams to offer programs and courses in markets
around the world, such as Russia, India, the United Kingdom and
Singapore, among others. Some examples include:
- Sales Overnight, Brand Over Time
– Yum! Brands’ CEO, Greg Creed, teaches associates the Sales
Overnight, Brand Over Time program. The training is designed to
help associates build a successful marketing mindset. The
interactive experience focuses on developing a better understanding
of how each brand’s identity comes to life in everything they do.
Attendees include franchise partners and marketers from Taco Bell,
Pizza Hut and KFC.
- Achieving Breakthrough Results
(ABR) – ABR is a high-impact leadership and action-planning
training that Yum! has cascaded to its employees and franchisees
around the globe to drive breakthrough thinking and innovation. ABR
provides associates with tools and concepts aimed at high
performance.
- Learning Zone – Learning Zone is
Yum! Brands’ online global learning content management system that
reaches the Company’s associates around the world. More than 35
million courses have been completed through the Learning Zone over
the past three years, with more than 1 million course completions
on average each month.
For more information on how Yum! is developing leaders across
the globe, visit http://yumcsr.com/people/building-capability.asp
or for more information about the LearningElite, visit
CLOmedia.com/elite.
Yum! Brands, Inc., based in Louisville, Kentucky, has over
41,000 restaurants in more than 125 countries and territories. Yum!
is ranked #216 on the Fortune 500 List with revenues of over $13
billion. The Company's restaurant brands – KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco
Bell – are the global leaders of the chicken, pizza and
Mexican-style food categories. Outside the United States, the Yum!
Brands system opens over five new restaurants per day on average,
making it a leader in international retail development.
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