HAMMER ACADEMY
Bravely Striving Together for More!
Since autumn 2015, personnel qualification has been gathering speed at Kurtz Ersa. In order to ensure that we also meet the complex requirements in tomorrow´s working environment, the Kurtz Ersa Team has been further upskilling thanks to numerous qualification instruments, training workshops and coaching sessions.
With more than 40 internal and external lecturers, and over 90 seminars, Kurtz Ersa has put together a training package which is unique in the region. The aim of the Kurtz Ersa Hammer Academy is to bundle and structure all activities from the areas of apprenticeship and advanced professional training, staff development, competence evaluation, talent management and succession planning, career development and customer training. It is a major element of the corporate culture, which makes Kurtz Ersa an attractive employer too. Knowledge and skills shall be increased through a culture of positive collaboration between management and personnel. Beside a positive attitude towards learning shall be created among employees, leading to the recognition and development of personal resources. Internal and external lecturers are important multipliers raising the knowledge of the Kurtz Ersa workforce to a new level. In a word: The Hammer Academy makes customers, employees and management fit for the future - and consequently ensures that the Kurtz Ersa Group remains sustainably competitive!
Vocational training and advanced professional training in the Hammer Academy:
- Trial work experience placements and student internships for school goers or students who have not yet completed their studies
- Industrial, technical and commercial apprenticeships plus work experience; designed for graduates of the Hauptschule (Secondary Modern), Realschule (Comprehensive) and Gymnasium (Grammar School)
- Holders of the Abitur examination certificate (qualifying the holder for admission to a technical college or university) can apply for a dual course of studies, for projects, theses and final assignments or work experience
- Trainee Programme – 18-month qualification programme in five phases for more challenging executive or specialist positions (third-level degree required)
Study programme: Hammer Expert
The Hammer Academy encompasses a seminar programme offering all Kurtz Ersa employees a comprehensive set of courses to gain basic knowledge, technical know-how, soft skills, methodical expertise and management competences. The programme also includes courses relating to family, sports and healthcare. In addition, the Professional Academy develops skilled Kurtz Ersa employees to become a Hammer Expert by a special study programme. The certification course leading to the Hammer Expert qualification is a course of studies conducted in cooperation with the Steinbeis-Hochschule Berlin. Participants acquire credit points and a university certificate. In addition customer training courses and seminars are also available, for example on particle foam processing, soldering and casting techniques. The competence evaluation which is conducted at the time of hiring and every second year thereafter is also an element of the Hammer Academy. By taking part in performance coaching, whether individually or in a group context, all Kurtz Ersa employees can specifically enhance their skills. Last, but not least the Hammer Academy also encompasses a programme for talent management and succession planning, in which capable Kurtz Ersa employees are specifically fostered according to an individual development plan, using all available Hammer Academy instruments. The Kurtz Ersa Hammer Academy invites all employees to pass on their own knowledge and skills to others in a function of a multiplier and to participate in the training courses. Let’s bravely advance together!
Organs of the Hammer Academy
The Academic Council consists of the management of Kurtz Holding GmbH & Co. Beteiligungs KG, the Chairman of the Group Works Council and a co-opted external member, Prof. Dr. Mödinger. The assignment of the Academic Council: Strategic orientation of training and professional advancement, encouragement of employees to engage in individual further development within the framework of the Hammer Academy for the Kurtz Ersa Group in general as well as adequate consideration of the specific interests of the individual group companies. The management of the Hammer Academy is organised through a Chancellor. The tasks of the management are programme supervision and updating, keeping in contact with other academies, selection of internal and external lecturers, administration of events and participants, issue of certificates, administration of the evaluation process and functioning as a central contact person regarding employees questions. At the same time, the Chancellor of the Hammer Academy functions as a consultant for the management board wishing to register their employees for training courses.
Kick-off Hammer Academy
The management board, executives, lecturers, managing directors and members of works council of Kurtz Ersa were informed about the Hammer Academy within a special event on 01.10.2015. They learned everything about functions, tools, registration and training courses in the Hammer Academy. Of course there were lots of questions as well as ideas and suggestions. The productive discussions on this day will be the basic fundament for the expansion of the programme in 2016.