KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell Parent Only Quick-Service Restaurant
Company on List
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 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:
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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.
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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 tools and
concepts aimed at high performance.
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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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Source: Yum! Brands, Inc.