(Fornebu, 11 November 2021) Telenor staff throughout the Nordics and Asia show they intend to stay on the forefront of upskilling to satisfy the quickly altering calls for of world prospects by setting a brand new e-learning world file.

Telenor Group has set a brand new GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS™ title for most customers to take a web based private growth lesson in 24 hours.

The file try began 27 October at 07:00 CET, and by the identical time the next day, a complete of 4,504 Telenor staff had performed the web course Progress Mindset. The profitable world file try was carried out by Telenor to sign its continued sturdy concentrate on inside up- and reskilling.

“We consider that the digitalisation of society will allow new options able to fixing international challenges of at present and tomorrow. Nonetheless, companies’ capability to utilise the total potential of the digital future is dependent upon how properly we facilitate adoption of recent and demanding abilities. Due to this fact, we have now intensified our studying efforts to make sure that we proceed to remain on the forefront of up- and reskilling of our staff,” says Cecilie Heuch, EVP and Chief Folks & Sustainability Officer of Telenor Group.

In search of information: “By means of dialogue with our present companions and in the direction of different industries, experimentation, and the assessment of worker suggestions, we’re studying the right way to finest obtain steady up- and reskilling of our staff, for the advantage of our prospects and society-at-large” say Cecilie Heuch, EVP and Chief Folks & Sustainability Officer of Telenor Group.

Progress mindset

The Progress Mindset course that was chosen for the Guinness World Data try promotes the advantages of making use of a development mindset in each the workers’ enterprise and private lives. Analysis signifies that when leaders promote a development mindset and supply an surroundings the place staff really feel secure to fail and make errors, there is a rise in creativity, studying, and innovation.

“Having a development mindset signifies that you consider your information and skills could be developed over time. This helps people embrace challenges as a possibility to study and to attempt new issues. By accepting setbacks as a part of the training course of, we concentrate on how we are able to enhance and be higher subsequent time,” says Selina Lomholdt, SVP and Head of International Studying & Growth.

Among the many Telenor learners who accomplished the badge was Jo Fan Pang in Digi, Telenor’s Malaysian subsidiary, who says the non-public growth course has helped broaden his horizons.

“Going by the Progress Mindset Badge was an important refresher on how we needs to be taking a look at all challenges as new alternatives for breakthrough and that there’s at all times multiple method to clear up any specific downside. I’m additionally excited to have had the expertise of being part of a worldwide world file setting occasion even whereas working from residence.”

Avid learner: Jo Fan Pang, Head of Particular Tasks in Digi Telecommunication’s analysis arm Digi-X, accomplished the Progress Mindset Badge in the course of the world file try. Thus, he contributed to Telenor changing into a GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS titleholder together with greater than 4,500 Telenor staff in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Thailand, Singapore, Myanmar, and Malaysia.

Personalising staff’ studying journeys

Again in 2018, Sigve Brekke, President and CEO of Telenor Group, challenged all staff to finish at the very least 40 hours of impactful studying and training every year. The initiative has proved to be successful, and in 2020, a file variety of 53.5 hours of upskilling was performed by Telenor staff on common. The corporate additionally hosts its personal studying portal referred to as Telenor Academy.

“We need to be the main firm in abilities growth in our markets, to make sure that we as an organization keep future prepared and procure the abilities wanted to not solely exploit the digitalisation, but in addition form it,” says Brekke.

This 12 months, based mostly on its a few years of expertise with inside studying processes, Telenor rolled out the ‘Telenor U’ platform. The web platform is a self-developed studying ecosystem that constructions every staff’ private studying journey.

“The introduction of Telenor U is a key to our means of strengthening inside competence and information throughout all enterprise models and can allow us to extra quickly undertake new competencies. To sum up, steady studying and upskilling improve our capability to attach prospects to what issues most and empower societies,” concludes Lomholdt.

Exploring collectively: Selina Lomholdt, SVP and Head of International Studying & Growth, and her group organised a “Progress Mindset Day” for workers at Telenor’s HQ at Fornebu, outdoors of Oslo, Norway, in the course of the firm’s world file try 27 October 2021.

Media contact: 
Stian Kristoffer Sande, Communications Supervisor, Telenor Group
Stian-kristoffer.sande@telenor.com | +47 975 39 221

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