LOUISVILLE, Ky.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
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 Aon Hewitt Top Companies for Leaders® in North America
for its unique and comprehensive leadership development programs and
practices.
Conducted since 2001, the Aon Hewitt Top Companies for Leaders study is
an analysis of talent management and leadership practices of
organizations around the world. This year's winners were selected and
ranked by an expert panel of independent judges based on a number of
criteria, including strength of leadership practices and culture,
examples of leader development on a global scale, alignment of business
and leadership strategy, company reputation, business and financial
performance.
“Yum! Brands is honored to be recognized as a top company for leaders,”
said Anne Byerlein, Chief People Officer, Yum! Brands. “This recognition
demonstrates our focus on building people capability at all levels and
investing in training and development programs to grow our next
generation of leaders around the globe. We are providing the tools,
systems, processes and support needed to equip our leaders to run great
restaurants worldwide.”
Yum! Brands has a unique people-first culture that is centered around
reward and recognition to drive results. With more than 40,000
restaurants in 125 countries and over 1.5 million associates, 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. Some examples include:
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Yum! University – Yum! University is a worldwide
learning and development platform that offers courses and workshops
designed to teach the skills and behaviors to build the capability of
above-restaurant leaders around the world. Yum! University offers
classroom and online courses, with over 35 million online courses
completed in the past few years alone.
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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
more than 50 tools and concepts aimed at high performance.
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Taking People With You (TPWY) – Yum!’s Chairman and CEO,
David Novak, developed and has personally trained his Taking People
With You leadership program to thousands of managers and franchisees
worldwide for the past 17 years. The training – along with Novak’s
best-selling book based on the program, TAKING PEOPLE WITH YOU: The
Only Way to Make BIG Things Happen – offers a step-by-step guide
to key aspects of leadership such as setting big goals, getting others
on board and achieving break-through results. The Company has cascaded
the training in 11 different languages, reaching more than 50,000
restaurant general managers and above restaurant leaders globally.
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Sales Overnight, Brand Over Time – Taco Bell’s CEO (who
takes over as CEO of Yum! in January), Greg Creed, and Pizza Hut CEO
and Yum! Brands Chief Innovation Officer, Scott Bergren, teach
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.
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Tuition Reimbursement and Scholarships – Yum! wants to
make learning and career development accessible to as many of its
associates as possible. In the U.S., the Company provides salaried
associates with tuition reimbursement opportunities. In addition,
through Yum!’s Andy Pearson Scholarship Program, the Company has
awarded 2,500 scholarships and nearly $6 million in grants to
associates since 2003.
“In today’s complex and unpredictable business landscape, Aon Hewitt Top
Companies for Leaders are passionate about cultivating resilient and
engaging leaders who take the time to know and develop their talent and
understand what experiences they need to rise above the rest,” said Pete
Sanborn, Global Talent practice leader. “We congratulate Yum! Brands on
being among a select group of organizations that excel at building and
growing a strong leadership environment.”
Visit www.aon.com/topcompanies-winners
for the full list of Aon Hewitt Top Companies for Leaders.
About the Aon Hewitt Top Companies for Leaders Study
With more than 1,500 data points and more than 300 executive interviews,
the 2014 Aon Hewitt Top Companies for Leaders study is the most
comprehensive, global research on leadership in the market, examining
the link between leadership practices and financial results. This study
explores how organizations assess, select, develop, and reward leaders,
and examines the execution of leadership practices, as well as the
strategy that guides it. To learn more about this study, please visit www.aon.com/topcompanies.
About Yum! Brands
Yum! Brands, Inc., based in Louisville, Kentucky, has over 40,000
restaurants in more than 125 countries and territories. Yum! is ranked
#216 on the Fortune 500 List with revenues of over $13 billion. In 2014
Yum! was named among the top 100 Corporate Citizens by Corporate
Responsibility. 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 opened over five new restaurants per day, making it a
leader in international retail development.
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