Angelini Academy: different pathways, a single goal. To grow!

The labour market continues to evolve and change: for a company that wants to keep in step with the times, it is important - if not essential - to ensure that its employees have the resources they need to embark on a gratifying, targeted and effective professional growth path.
Angelini Industries understands these needs well, and this is why in 2018 it founded the Angelini Academy. Through its partnerships with international business schools and universities, the Angelini Group's corporate academy delivers high-quality training to employees, cultivating talents and fostering human and professional development, at all ages and levels of seniority.

Young people are an incredible resource for businesses, which have the task (indeed the duty) to invest appropriate resources in enhancing their talents, bridle their enthusiasm and accompany them on a continuous, gratifying growth path.

Angelini Industries has decided to act concretely in this direction. Every year, it awards 140 study grants to children of the Group’s employees studying at high school and university. The study grants are awarded on merit, and the best students are selected from all the 26 territories in which Angelini Industries works.
But there’s more: when a young person joins the Angelini Industries Group, they are given a training package called the “Angelini Industries Essential Toolkit”, offering them access to essential training in environmental and safety issues, ethics and professionalism, IT and GDPR regulations, as well as 40 hours of technical training in topics including the professional use of Powerpoint and Excel, budgeting, data-based decision-making processes and feedback management.

In addition, during the first 5 years of employment, graduates aged under 30 have the chance to sign up to two different pathways:

• FUTURE LEADERS PROGRAM
• ANGELINI MASTERY PROGRAM FOR THE YOUNGER GENERATION

The “Future Leaders Program” targets employees who, with less than two years’ work experience, have been identified as High-Potential Employees (HIPOs). This is a General Development program designed to springboard the participants into managerial roles after 12 months.

“Angelini Mastery Program for the Younger Generation” is the program designed for young new hires, aiming to perfect those soft and hard skills that, during university, were not developed with a view to their application in the business world.

The core of the Angelini Academy’s unique approach lies in its customised training activities, developed specifically to meet the goals and needs of their recipients.

The customisation process is discussed with the operating companies, directly involving the participants – around 1200 every year – and monitoring their progress one by one.

The process is divided into 4 main steps:

1. Selection of the participants and the skills to be developed
   The Angelini Academy team organises meetings with the learning and development teams of each operating company in the Group, selecting the participants to be involved. The set of skills to be developed is then defined for each participant. 
2. Definition of the customised training program
   To identify and design the training program to meet the individual needs of each participant, the Angelini Academy works with its network of university professors and scientific directors of its range of training programs. 
3. Choice of program
   The training package defined is submitted to the participant ant their reference HR Manager. If more than one option is available, the participant is offered the chance to choose which training program to apply for. This is certainly the most crucial step, when the logic of the professional development expected by the operating companies is explained to the candidate.
4. Enrolment, delivery of the training program and follow-up
   Once the training program has been chosen, the Angelini Academy starts the enrolment process, supporting the candidate throughout their path and monitoring the correct performance of the program. The cycle ends with an interview between the Angelini Academy team and the participant, around 6 months after the end of the training path, to assess the application of the skills learned.

The Angelini Academy supports the growth of Angelini Industries also through its contribution to leadership.

The training programs also include refresher and networking courses for CEOs working in the various operating companies of the Angelini Industries Group.

In addition, new executives are supported for the first year by a Mentor, who helps them to understand their role and responsibilities as a leader.

The Academy aims to improve the skills of all the professional categories in the Angelini Industries Group: this challenge covers three main objectives:

1. To bring innovation to the functions, introducing new skills in all the industries.
2. To create a function identity representing each employee not only for their position in the organisation but also for the skills they have acquired.
3. To encourage functional networking, guiding people through new work approaches and methods and thus creating cross-contamination among different sectors and areas.

This is certainly an ambitious challenge, as underlined by Marco Morbidelli, Group Chief HR & Organization Officer at Angelini Industries. It is also true that thanks to the efforts and results achieved in the last three years, the Angelini Academy has shown that it has the ability to embrace this challenge and transform it into value for people and for the company.