How Westinghouse University Supports Significant Top-Line Growth
When: Tuesday, January 24th, 2012 : 11:00AM - 12:00PM EDT
Westinghouse Electric Company is the world’s pioneering nuclear energy company and a leading supplier of nuclear plant products and technologies to utilities throughout the world. Headquartered in Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania, Westinghouse employs 15,000 people in 17 countries worldwide. Westinghouse supplied the world’s first pressurized water reactor in 1957 in Shippingport, Pennsylvania. Today, Westinghouse technology is the basis for approximately one-half of the world’s operating nuclear plants, including 60 percent of those in the United States. Westinghouse nuclear technology will help provide future generations with safe, clean and reliable electricity.
Although Westinghouse Electric Company is a successful, 125-year-old company, modern challenges have required a new and strategic approach to learning. Westinghouse University was launched in the spring of 2010 to support a rapidly expanding, global workforce and select customers, partners and suppliers; transfer knowledge from experienced employees to new hires; and enable the company to deal with the evolving market demands in the nuclear industry. Breaking from the tradition of in-person training, Westinghouse University is 100% virtual – a decision made to meet the rapid learning needs demanded by the tenfold, top-line growth projected by 2019.
At this webinar, you will learn more about Westinghouse University’s four major components, each of which has been structured to play a critical role in aligning the University with the company’s business goals and objectives:
- Administration: The administration is multi-disciplinary and includes senior leaders who establish and maintain a governance model, approve the strategic direction of Westinghouse University, identify the key performance indicators, and advocate for resources.
- Colleges: The college structure is divided by curricula into 7 units (colleges), which strive to fulfill the collective mission: “To implement the learning strategy and related processes required to meet the enterprise-wide learning demands of our growing business.”
- Operations: The Operations Team ensures that the impact of the University is maximized through the quality, quantity and service delivery of training across the enterprise.
- Training Councils: Training Councils are implemented across the organization and are aligned to either sites or product lines. These Councils ensure that learning needs are identified and addressed.
In a year in a half, Westinghouse University has brought about significant improvements to the learning strategy at Westinghouse Electric Company.
Attend this webinar to find out more about improvements to their global LMS, their curriculum, and processes around learning event design, development and delivery. These achievements and more demonstrate that the creation of Westinghouse University to ensure business success was an extremely worthwhile endeavor.
Presenters:
Jim Ice joined Westinghouse as Director, Talent Management, in 2008. In this role Jim is responsible for the design and execution of organizational and talent management strategies to support business outcomes. These include: global organizational re-design, talent acquisition processes, executive/management development; performance management, and the design and implementation of Westinghouse University.
Jim has extensive experience in assisting companies across the globe to build and leverage the employee talent base to reach their business objectives, including:
- As Director, Organizational Development for Respironics (a leading medical device company) he served as the architect for their award winning Leadership development program and his work on business strategy and culture change is documented in the Best Practice issue of the Organizational Development Journal.
- As Vice President of Professional Services for SuccessFactors (an HR consulting/software company) he and his team consulted to over 200 leading companies helping them align employee performance with business objectives and implement best practices in employee involvement/development programs.
- Jim has also held several Human Resource and world-wide process implementation leadership roles for the Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa), Harmarville Rehabilitation Center and Allegheny Power Service Corporation.
Jim holds a Bachelors degree in psychology from West Virginia University, a Masters degree in organizational relations from Purdue University, and is completing his Ed.D. in education at the University of Pittsburgh.
