Training for Managerial Positions
Sekisui House is committed to training and providing guidance for female employees to be appointed to managerial positions. Our aim is to increase female representation in decision-making areas, and facilitate the company’s growth from a diverse range of perspectives. Each year, the number of females in managerial positions is steadily increasing. In 2006 there were 15 females in managerial positions overall (Section Manager and higher), and as of April 2020 this number has grown to 229.
Sekisui House Women’s College
Sixth semester students
This is where we train promising management candidates under an approximately two-year systematic and effective curriculum, and facilitate their appointment to managerial positions. The students work hard together at the Sekisui House Women’s College, in an atmosphere of mutual encouragement that enables them to grow both professionally and personally.
First training session
College Objectives
- Enhance management perspectives and skills suitable for managerial positions
- Fostering the motivation and self-awareness to acquire qualifications for promotion to managerial positions
- Cultivating role models
Curriculum Outline
- 〈First Year〉Learning about the essence of management, by acquiring the skills to develop a management perspective
- 〈Second Year〉Strengthening problem-solving skills and other abilities, through experiential learning to resolve workplace issues
- Presentations to Top Management
Presentations to Top Management
Individual presentations in front of top management
Students turn their attention to their own department and section, and challenge themselves to address issues on a cross-departmental scale. They then make a presentation to top management on the themes they have been addressing from a managerial perspective, and the outcome of their efforts. These presentations contain many proposals that impress top management, such as Group companies working together to achieve results and setting up risk prevention mechanisms, as well as ideas that can lead to new innovations.
