Growing in Italgas
We believe in talents and invest in their professional development.
People’s growth is the strength of our Group
In order to reconfirm these values and objectives, Italgas continues to invest in developing the skills and abilities of collaborators and promotes participation, dialogue and the creation of a positive work environment.
From the moment a person joins the Group, we are with them and guide them on their professional development ensuring constant training. We have designed personalized induction paths aimed at acquiring specific skills in the technical-specialist field: in line with our goal of generational change, we want to create a solid core of young people who can feel an active part of the company, taking part in the challenges of the energy transition we are facing.
Professional development is supported with growth paths combining training activities and internal mobility experiences, offering the opportunity of a new role, function or territorial area. In this context, the key themes of the growth path are inherent in the corporate culture, linked to ethical values and sustainability principles, and the digital transformation, now intrinsic to the way we work.
Our people are the energy of the Group, investing in their growth is our responsibility.
In 2022 we carried out over 132,300 hours of training, of which over 33,800 on digitization issues, with increasingly challenging objectives in the coming years.
Growing to be a reference point
We are concerned with developing the skills and talents of our people through virtuous initiatives and projects.
Develop skills
We provide tailor-made training and career development paths for our talents. We are living in a crucial moment of evolution, in which digital transformation and generational change stimulate us to envisage development activities in which Digital Transformation plays a leading role.
Valuing talent
Every person in Italgas is endowed with a unique and special talent, which we protect through a Development Programme aimed at the growth of professionalism in the company, which includes:
Coaching and Mentorship programmes
Dialogue represents the guiding method of our IG Academy, which above all constitutes an ideal place for comparison and exchange, because only through sharing can we grow together.
Dialogue was also at the heart of WeInspire, our mentoring and reverse mentoring process conceived with the dual objective of accompanying newly appointed managers on their growth path and promoting the dissemination of skills between different generations and professional profiles.
Born on the initiative of our Diversity & Inclusion Ambassadors of the “Age & Culture” stream, WeInspire featured 15 pairs of mentors and mentees from all Group companies who, from November 2022 to today, have worked together, mutually sharing advice and suggestions to enhance each one’s uniqueness, building solid relationships capable of fortifying the foundations of today’s and tomorrow’s Italgas.
The coaching courses in Italgas are structured with an empowerment-oriented approach, which combines support for increasing effectiveness in real cases with a transversal path of personal and professional development. Their goal is to improve performance combined with the parallel evolution of the individual.
Female Leadership Program
The Female Leadership Program, which began in 2021 and continued in 2022, aims to enhance the leadership skills of Italgas female colleagues, also in consideration of the current gender imbalance and the objective of increasing the presence of women in managerial roles.
The program includes various initiatives with the aim of promoting opportunities for exchange, experimentation and inspiration on the distinctive features of female leadership, also through internal and external networking and discussions with women perceived as role models in their profession.
The program also includes intercompany mentoring and development of strategic skills for the exercise of inclusive leadership.
The female colleagues involved in the initiatives of the course are currently around fifty and the goal is to broaden the perimeter of impact in 2023/2024.
The impact of the process can be quantified, among other things, in the improvement of the individual performance of the participants with respect to the identified objectives and in the significant increase in the growth of female managers in strategic positions, with a direct benefit for the Group and the teams in which they run.
Career progression opportunities: IGrow
One of the Italgas Group’s career paths is IGrow, the Graduate Program dedicated to young talents. The participants, thanks to the shadowing of professionals and dedicated training, are accompanied in a process of personal and professional growth, acquiring the skills necessary to hold a position of responsibility within the Group.
The programme involves job rotation in the Group’s various locations throughout the country and is divided into two streams: Innovation and Excellence. Participants in the Innovation stream are involved in projects focusing on energy transition, digitisation and analytics. The Excellence stream involves participation in projects with a high strategic content in the main functions leading the holding company, aimed at facing the daily challenges of the business.