Personal motivation and the willingness to achieve can best be leveraged in an environment where the strengths of the individual are fostered – in a true high-performance culture. We can create an environment of this kind only by ensuring excellent leadership, setting binding standards and systematically developing young Company employees.

The Siemens Leadership Excellence (SLE) program prepares managers for their tasks, enabling them to define important visions and clear goals for the Company and to have a major impact on the development of their people. What makes the SLE program special is that leaders develop leaders. This approach not only creates a dynamic, worldwide network of managers but also allows knowledge and experience to be shared and multiplied across the Company – an important success factor for our business.

The standards we’ve defined are applied throughout the Company using our Performance Management Process. Managers hold one-to-one talks with their people to assess the achievement of the previous year’s goals. The results of these discussions affect employees’ further professional development and salary. In addition, concrete goals are agreed upon for the coming year. This process is a key prerequisite for high performance. Only employees who know what their professional goals are will perform to their full capacity.

Siemens can look back on a long history of success – thanks to the expertise, motivation and commitment of many generations of employees. To safeguard our long-term future, we’ve strengthened our focus on the next generation – in particular, on our top young talents and key experts.