Training and talent management
We promote the recruitment of the best professionals and continuous learning to ensure the professional and personal growth of our employees.
They are our main asset and competitive advantage. We also want each individual to play an active role in their own development and to be able to express their highest potential, beyond providing skills and knowledge.
Training offer
Our approach to continuous training is based on the 70:20:10 model. This principle states that most learning takes place in everyday work (70%), while 20% occurs through informal processes such as coaching or mentoring in the workplace and only 10% is generated in structured training processes.
These processes, including the Talent Review and procedures to detect training needs, are of vital importance since they can become the key component for future learning, in the workplace as well as in other learning processes.
The people who form part of the Cosentino Group have access to a wide variety of training programmes. In 2020, we allocated 136,200 hours (Training Plan + Onboarding + online English) to training our employees, in two lines of training:
Onboarding:
Initial training plans: Anyone who joins the Cosentino Group, anywhere in the world, is greeted with a welcome plan to facilitate their integration, help them deepen their knowledge of the company and speed up their full immersion in the position.
Continuous training
In 2020, we carried out 295 training activities.
Training sessions include soft skills, industrial techniques, commercial techniques, product training, digital transformation and languages.
Among the training programmes carried out in 2020 are: the Digital Transformation programme aimed at the commercial network and the executive committee; leadership programmes for factory managers; upskilling training for specialists; and training in agile methodologies.
Each year we include new training methodologies, integrating innovation and best practice for the future of the company’s employees.
This year we continued to promote digital training thanks to the implementation of a platform accessible to all Cosentino employees.
The digitalisation of our training content allows us to reach all employees, regardless of the geographical area where they work, thanks to our digital transformation process.
We also offer our employees the possibility of taking a Masters degree, a postgraduate course or a specialisation course.
Below is the average number of employee training hours per year and the number of total training hours broken down by gender and professional category:
295
training activities
to our employees
136.200
training hours
to our employees
Training Plan +
Onboarding +
online English
Training hours by professional category
Attracting and managing talent
At Cosentino we seek to increase the effectiveness of the selection process so that attracting and managing talent is a continuous process that begins before our professionals join the company.
Ingenia
Paid development program for recent STEM graduates with a clear vocation for the industrial sector and a complete training plan. In the 2020 edition, there are 22 participants.
Impulsa FP
Offers internships with an employment contract in different industrial areas of the company. A total of 25 participants are taking advantage of this program which they joined in July 2020.
Proyecta Program
Two-month comprehensive training program which aims to train operators to facilitate their complete insertion in the labor market. 29 people participated in the 2020 edition.
Other training programmes
As part of our partnership with the Juan Rubio Ortiz Institute of Higher Education in Macael (Almería, Spain), we have opened our facilities to students from the following training courses:
→ Higher-level vocational training course in Industrial Mechatronics (First and second year).
→ Middle-level vocational training course in Electromechanical Maintenance (First and second year).