We’ve recently celebrated two important anniversaries at Barry-Wehmiller.
Our internal educational arm, Barry-Wehmiller University, turned 10 this year! 十年培养个人成长, creating leaders and inspiring people within our organization.
当BWU于2007年诞生时, we had little idea what would ultimately come of it or the magnitude of its impact. We were in the early stages of our Truly Human 领导 journey and had been asking our team leaders how to blend the tools of lean with our vision of a people-centric culture as articulated in our Guiding Principles of 领导. Over and over again, they responded that they needed leadership training. So, that was our challenge: “How do we create leadership education within this organization?”
Through the visioning session, we arrived at two main points. Our purpose was to develop an integrated, inspirational and sustainable way of living our vision. And we believed we could use the power of business to dramatically impact the world in a positive way.
We decided that we would develop our own material because we wanted it to be distinctively Barry-Wehmiller, 唤起推荐全球十大博彩公司排行榜独特的世界观和原则. We agreed that we wanted our professors to be Barry-Wehmiller team members. And we decided that the process of how we taught had to be inspirational and transformational from the beginning.
不像很多公司的培训经历, the goal of BWU was not to “get more out of” our team members, but rather to teach them the fundamentals of leadership, so they might positively impact the lives of others in their roles as leaders. Not just the lives of people inside our organization, 但他们在生活中可能遇到的任何人, including – and maybe most importantly – their family.
In ten years of BWU, we’ve conducted a total of 653 courses with 8,751 total course graduates. We have held classes in 73 unique global locations in 13 countries in four languages taught by 261 professors. By any metric, those numbers would say our program is successful. 但这是Barry-Wehmiller. The metric we use to determine the success of our classes is in the number of lives touched by our teachings.
取, 例如, Communication Skills – or now “Listen Like a Leader” – where we teach active listening. 这是推荐全球十大博彩公司排行榜所有其他课程的基础, 根据推荐全球十大博彩公司排行榜多年来收到的反馈, 这可能是推荐全球十大博彩公司排行榜最具影响力的. We’ve had team member upon team member share stories of how this class has positively affected their relationships with their families. It has been so impactful that my wife and I formed a non-profit, 推荐全球十大博彩公司排行榜的社区倾听, to share the class with communities all over the U.S. 目前, 近4,000 people have received listening training in more than 236 classes in 13 locations.
And in the spirit of using business to dramatically impact the world in a positive way, sharing what we’ve learned with other organizations who believe like we believe and are ready for positive change, we’re also celebrating the two-year anniversary of the BW 领导学院 (now 查普曼 & Co. 领导学院, 点击这里阅读更多,) which directly evolved from BWU to take our internal teachings to businesses throughout the world.
在圣. 路易独自, BWLI has hosted 15 Think Like a Leader classes (formerly Beyond Benchmarking,) 10 Listen Like a Leader classes and 3 Inspire Like a Leader classes. That’s more than 800 people who have traveled from all over the world in the past two years to learn from our practitioners. 除了, the 领导学院 has supported over 63 Listen Like a Leader classes globally – impacting more than 1,110人的生命.
WLI also brings our unique leadership training inside other organizations. 到目前为止, they have taught 20 Inspire Like a Leader off-sites classes within other businesses and are projected to teach approximately 15 more before the fall.
这些课程平均有40名参与者, 推荐全球十大博彩公司排行榜正在激励更多的人,600人通过这门课生活!
在短短两年内, the BW 领导学院 has touched literally hundreds of organizations, but one of the things they’re most proud of is the diversity of client-organizations they have had the privilege to work with: from a wealth management firm in St. 路易, 到德克萨斯州农村的一个教育服务中心, 到美国最大的葡萄酒经销商之一.S.美国国家橄榄球联盟球队，最大的航空公司之一.
Their efforts are constantly affirming that our message is a truly HUMAN message that is universal and not bound to any particular industry or demographic.
十年前, we could have never imagined that the ripple effect of our leadership journey would impact so many people. Out of our original idea of offering leadership training to our team members grew two organizations that now are also bringing leadership training to people around the globe.
As we celebrate these special milestones we are proud of how Barry-Wehmiller is truly building a better world!