Development Programs

At UniCredit, we have put in place several distinct programs tailored for specific stages of leadership development.

UniQuest

UniQuest is the group’s international talent development program, geared to young professionals who have worked in the group for three to six years. The program aims to identify early on the most promising talent in all of our banks, countries and business lines, who aspire to international careers and who have the potential to serve in an executive capacity.

Take a look for yourself at UniQuest's spirit of multinational teamwork and outside-the-box thinking!

 

Lead for Customers

Lead for Customers is a leadership development program for middle managers, designed to foster out-of-the-box thinking, a broad understanding of the group’s strategic assets and a comprehensive sense of their role in the group.

UniFuture

UniFuture is a leadership development program for senior managers. Participants work in cross-divisional and multi-national teams to develop project ideas that draw on the spirit of innovation at UniCredit. Their work on these projects provides them with opportunities to explore new business scenarios, often far removed from their daily responsibilities, and to examine the strengths and weaknesses of their own leadership styles.

Our way of infusing leadership development with the spirit of innovation and collaboration at the UniManagement Center can be seen in this video !.

 

In addition to these programs, UniManagement – the group's executive learning center – offers a wide variety of learning experiences that make up the UniCredit Leadership Curriculum – a development process serving as a common group-wide framework for leadership development. The Building Blocks and Learning Labs modules of the curriculum challenge managers from different levels of the organization with state-of-the-art interactive learning tools and provide powerful peer-to-peer knowledge-sharing experiences. Leadership for Results, for instance, promotes a managerial style inspired by the principles of emotional intelligence.

For detailed information on our learning center mission and programs, visit the sito di UniManagement website.

Mentoring

Mentoring is a developmental relationship where the “Mentor” provides the “Mentee” with an off-line guidance in making significant transitions in knowledge, work and thinking.

The Mentor shares his/her seniority, knowledge and insights with the Mentee, fostering his/her professional growth. Mentoring target group is EDP/TMR population.

What are the goals and benefits?

• Strengthen career planning and development
• Sharpen leadership skills
• Boost understanding of organizational complexity
• Transfer corporate values and enhance networking

How does it work?

• Program lasts 1 year. It can be extended upon mutual agreement
• At least 5 contacts in one year, and at least two face-to-face meetings
• If for objective reasons the relationship can not be continued both parties can initiate to stop the process
• Trust and confidentiality will be maintained at all times
• Mentors are Senior Managers from UniCredit are matched according to the development needs of Mentees

Coaching

Coaching is a partnership between a coach and an individual that supports the development of leadership skills and accelerates the individual's learning progress by providing greater focus and awareness of possibilities leading to more effective choices

What are the goals and benefits?

• Help individuals (coachees) to develop leadership attitudes and competences and therefore reach a higher level of performance
• Empower coachees to realize their potential and to how to use it

How does it work?

• Coaching takes place via individual meetings, delivered either face to face or through telephone calls
• The coaching program, organized by UniManagement and the Executive Development Team, lasts 3/4 months and in this time period the pair meets 10-12 hours on average
• The coaches are colleagues from UniCredit - internal coaches from different Divisions/CLs to that of the coachee - who have participated in a specific professional training course on coaching organized by UniManagement and they pledge accountability to the UCG Coaching Code of Ethics.