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Women at the Wheel

Tuesday, January 17th, 2012 by Monica Sun

At Henkel, Diversity & Inclusion are integral components of our corporate culture, with a particular focus on internationality, age and gender. Flexible working opportunities, specific mentoring programs and a general change from a culture of presence to a more result-oriented culture are supportive and beneficial to women working at Henkel.

To make best practice examples visible, Henkel’s employee newspaper “Henkel Life” meets successful women working in the Asia Pacific region on a quarterly basis. As part of the interviews successful women are asked to give insights into their secrets of success and to give advice to other female employees.

“I really consider gender diversity and inclusion as one of our key competitive advantages and as a tremendous asset for our company. For me it’s a personal priority to foster it, and I am happy and dedicated to see and support women to successfully combine business and private life. Today we have already a number of female colleagues in leading positions in our region,” says Patrick Kaminski, President of Henkel Asia-Pacific.

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Diversity beats Uniformity

Monday, December 19th, 2011 by Astrid Bosten

The Chinese Ministry of Education wants to request universities across the country to reduce the number of supplied study courses by the “unprofitable” ones. Programs where less than 60 percent of graduates do not find a job within the first two years should be canceled. From their point of view a study program is only rentable for the government and the community if graduates will be integrated as quickly as possible to work and pay taxes. For the ministry it is a clear and compelling case: Why should the government fund an expensive education, if the high skilled then continues to financially depend on the government?

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New intake of mentors for Henkel UK & Ireland

Wednesday, December 14th, 2011 by Diane Humphrey

A new intake of mentors attended the mentoring workshop held in the UK on 1 December.  The new mentors picked up some new skills and polished up on some old skills.  Each mentor took away one commitment to doing things differently in the future including,  ‘Explore as many options as possible, even if some early options may seem to provide a solution’, ‘Be more questioning and suggestive instead of giving solutions.’, and ‘Ask clearer, more structured questions’.

January will see the first Mentoring Masterclass, an opportunity for Mentors to exchange, learn form each other and hone their skills.

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Henkel’s Women Mentoring Program in China

Thursday, December 8th, 2011 by Monica Sun

The Women Mentoring Program is one of Henkel’s Diversity and Inclusion initiatives for the Asia Pacific region for 2011. Although women leaders demonstrate very publicly that they can do as well as men, the number of women in senior leadership roles can still be improved in Asia Pacific. 

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Henkel Ladies participated in Arizona Women’s Leadership Forum 2011

Wednesday, November 30th, 2011 by Angela Curley

On November 9, 2011 the twelfth Arizona Women’s Leadership Forum took place at the Phoenician Resort in Scottsdale. It is one of the premier women’s leadership events in the United States and brings together world-caliber leaders and leadership experts with senior-level individuals from the corporate, professional, entrepreneurial, nonprofit and governmental sectors. Hundreds of senior professional women as well as influential leaders from across the country joined this year’s forum.

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Henkel Iberica includes People with special Difficulties

Monday, November 21st, 2011 by Lourdes Abrisquetta

In the frame of our internal protocol against violence on gender, defined in the Equality Plan of Henkel Iberica, the Equality Commission as initiated an important action in order to include one of the groups with special difficulties into the labor market.

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Henkel France signs French “Diversity Charter”

Friday, November 18th, 2011 by Astrid Bosten

For the first Time in January 2004 the idea for a Diversity Charter came up in the report “Les oubliés de l’égalité des chances” (By the Wayside of Equal Opportunity) published by the French think tank Montaigne Institute. Nine month later on 22 October 2004 the Charter was finally launched in France by Claude Bébéar Chairman of the Montaigne Institute, and Yazid Sabeg, Chairman of the Board, CS – Communication & Systèmes France, and journalist Laurence Méhaignerie.

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Meet The UK and Irelands new D&I Ambassadors

Monday, November 7th, 2011 by Diane Humphrey

Henkel is building on its reputation for excellence by adding seven Ambassadors from Henkel UK and Irelands to its Diversity & Inclusion Network.

Their goal is to champion Diversity and Inclusiveness and promote innovative working practices that engage, inspire and enthuse Henkel employees. These include the open sharing of ideas, where honesty and frankness are prized; The aim is to encourage an inclusive culture that becomes a normal way of doing business at Henkel.

Two Diversity & Inclusion Ambassadors took the time to explain their involvement…

 

Mike Richardson, Global SAP Masterdata Analyst at Henkel Electronics

I heard about the Diversity & Inclusion programme from some colleagues who attended the D&I pilot training in Hemel Hempstead, and thought it sounded really interesting. I like the way Diversity & Inclusion is not just about looking to set quotas or concentrate on one aspect: it’s about getting people in the right places and using the natural diversity that this creates for the benefit of the company. One area The Ambassadors are currently looking at is ways to make working for Henkel easier for people who have special circumstances or requirements, including flexible working schemes, homeworking, flexible hours, job shares and other initiatives.  These are all the things that might help fit work around having a family and a life.

 

 

Rondi Allan, Purchasing Manager, UK and Ireland

The role of the Ambassadors is to look at how we can role out initiatives and influence the company to be more diverse and inclusive. 
I believe differences are already being made, maybe in a subtle way, but there is a change.

Since becoming an Ambassador I have learnt a lot about Henkel’s approach o D&I and it is great to talk informally to my colleagues to communicate and promote the D&I initiatives. Equally, it has been fascinating to learn about the perceptions and opinions of my colleagues. 



I believe that greater Diversity and Inclusion will result in greater innovation, market understanding and therefore better decision-making and is essential to achieving our aspiration to be a ’Winning Team’.

 

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