Benefits of a Cross-functional, Multi-industry, and Multi-location Career
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This session aims to encourage women to pursue a cross-functional experience in jobs, industries and locations, and embrace unfamiliar and ambiguous challenges. Starting with a brief overview of Textron and the Leadership Development Program, this session will showcase the personal experiences of 3 women who recently graduated the Textron Engineering LDP. Engineering LDP participants gain challenging work experiences in different engineering disciplines, cross-company movement, training, interactions and mentoring relationships with leaders throughout Textron. This session will highlight the personal and career benefits of this type of experience, which can which can be pursued at any stage of your career.
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Benefits of a Cross-functional, Multi-industry, and Multi-location Career
- 1. Company Confidential Benefits of a Cross-functional, Multi- industry, and Multi-location Career SWE ‘15 Conference Lightning Talk Melissa Forkner Sinduja Babu Meagan Villanueva 1
- 2. 2 1. Textron Overview 2. LDP Mission 3. First-hand Experiences 4. Take Aways Objectives
- 4. WHERE WE ARE REVENUES $13 BILLION PEOPLE 37,000 LOCATIONS 25 COUNTRIES ENTERPRISE LOCATIONS
- 5. 52014 Revenue $13.9B Ranked 219th in Fortune 500 Textron Segments Textron Aviation 33% Bell Helicopter Industrial Finance <1% Textron Systems 12%31% 24% Unmanned Systems Geospatial Solutions Advanced Information Solutions Weapon and Sensor Systems Marine and Land Systems WHO WE ARE
- 6. LDP Mission The Textron Leadership Development Program is designed to accelerate early career development of high performing college graduates and to prepare them for upwardly mobile careers throughout the Textron enterprise. 6
- 7. The LDP:Eng program • 3 year program – 3 different Business Units • Each rotation is purposely focused on a different aspect of engineering which provides a solid and broad base of skills and experiences • Designed to prepare high-potential candidates for leadership opportunities within engineering through – Conferences and training – Networking and mentoring opportunities – Challenging assignments 7
- 11. Take Aways • Pursue a well-rounded, cross-functional engineering experience early in your career as well as throughout; Recognize when you’re at your peak in a job, and look for other opportunities to grow • Transform initial perceptions of a long-term career, challenge yourself, and embrace ambiguity through exploring different functions, industries and roles and be resourceful in a time-efficient manner. • Build and foster an extensive network at varying levels across multiple businesses. Utilize network to develop professionally and personally through your career. 11
- 12. Contact Information • Melissa Forkner mforkner@textronsystems.com • Sinduja Babu sbabu@txtav.com • Meagan Villanueva mvillanueva@textronsystems.com 12
Hinweis der Redaktion
- Welcome students Representatives in attendance introduce themselves Quick outline of presentation Overview of our businesses and products Textron Value Proposition Potential career opportunities Transition Language: There’s a lot of information we can share with you, but let’s start with some of the basics…
- We have approximately 37,000 employees with major facilities in 25 countries. More representation if you factor in sales organizations, service centers and manufacturing facilities. Textron is headquartered in Providence, Rhode Island. Heaviest presence in North America and Europe; growing presence in Asia and South America Our 2013 revenues were about $13 billion. We have other corporate offices in India, China, Texas, Washington DC and Illinois. Transition Language: That’s where we are. Let’s go into greater detail about who we are.
- Focus on bigger name brands, revenue, segments/BUs
- Our Leadership Development Program (LDP) demonstrates our commitment to developing talent and our belief that moving talent across our businesses is fundamental to personal and professional growth. The program features a structured mix of challenging work experiences within your functional area, cross-company movement, dedicated training, mentoring relationships and interactions with leaders around the company.
- Male vs. female mentor and bosses This rotation program provides many benefits, including the opportunity to grow your technical and interpersonal skills, embrace ambiguous tasks, and gain a well rounded and cross-functional engineering experience.
- Challenge initial career aspirations – I came out of college certain that I wanted to be an aerodynamics specialist. The program helped me challenge this, and taught me to seek out new experiences, roles and responsibilities throughout my career, so that my skills evolve and I become more well-rounded professionally. Network at all levels – some people associate the word networking with only getting to know senior management. I realized quickly that having a strong network across all levels of the organization was invaluable. Spending time getting to know what people do, and what makes them tick helped to build relationships that will last and benefit your career. Don’t be afraid of taking calculated risks in your career – seek out seemingly impossible assignments, roles in functions you are unfamiliar with, locations unknown to you. Because there are only two outcomes from doing this: you either plan, prepare and execute and you succeed. Or, you plan, prepare and execute and you do not succeed, but you learn from it. What to do differently next time. What types of uncertainty and risks to account for. The program by nature is designed to give us experiences out of our comfort zones. But, with the right support and attitude, this personally has been the best way to learn new things and develop new skills.
- The program acted as a catalyst for my professional and personal growth. Though opportunities to network and access to formal leadership trainings contributed to this, I was most profoundly impacted by the lessons I learned during each of my rotations. Among all those lessons shines this: take ownership of your career and aggressively pursue it. A number of factors, I have found, contribute to the successful pursuit of this lesson. Among them are: 1) being open minded about the variety of opportunities a global and multi-industry company can offer you, 2) say yes to the opportunities that will stretch your abilities, and 3) if you feel disengaged/unchallenged, ASK for the opportunities that will interest and challenge you.
- After, open it up to questions State that for the remainder of the hour students are encouraged to seek these reps to ask any questions they might have for a specific rep Encourage students to visit Textron.com/careers to learn more about opportunities at Textron and to apply online for positions This is the last slide