Korea & Company Group Accelerates Organizational Culture Shift With Future Leader Development Project 'Junior Board'
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Korea & Company Group held the 'Junior Board' third-quarter workshop on the 12th and 13th, sharing directions for nurturing leaders and improving organizational culture with young employees.
Key executives, including Chairman Cho Hyun-bum of Korea & Company Group, attended the workshop and held open conversations with Junior Board members.
Chairman Cho said corporate culture is formed in the process of employees identifying and solving problems, adding that employees should find problems on their own and form their own perspective through diverse experiences.
As Korea & Company Group runs its future leader development project, the 'Junior Board,' it shared directions for nurturing leaders and improving organizational culture with young employees. Korea & Company Group said it will hold the 'Junior Board' third-quarter workshop on the 12th and 13th.
Key executives from the group, including Chairman Cho Hyun-bum of Korea & Company Group, attended the workshop. Chairman Cho delivered a message in a conversation with young employees.
Chairman Cho explained that corporate culture is not created by slogans but is formed based on the process in which members identify and solve problems. The message underscored a direction that encourages young employees to take part in practical problem-solving processes.
The Junior Board is a talent development and innovation project that began in 2022. Employees with six years or less of service are eligible to participate, and they join a program in which they directly identify improvement tasks related to company systems, organizational culture and work processes, and deliberate on solutions.
At the workshop, executives asked members to grow into 'proactive leaders.' Through the operation of the Junior Board, Korea & Company Group is continuing to shape organizational culture and identify improvement tasks through communication with young employees.
The program's core goal is to support the growth of talent that will lead organizational development by providing experience in discovering on-site issues and turning alternatives into concrete plans.
The fifth cohort in 2026 consists of 40 people in total. With Hanon Systems joining from this year, the group's talent development foundation has expanded.
This year's annual keywords are Discovery, Solution, Influence and Ownership. Within the scope of activities ranging from task identification and idea refinement to feasibility review and effect verification, members are building the capabilities needed to connect employee proposals to tangible results.
The theme of this workshop was Influence, and Junior Board members participated. The workshop was held in a 'Conclave' format of intensive discussion.
Participants discussed the feasibility and application direction of existing proposed ideas and reviewed the conditions needed for organizational adoption as well as considerations in the execution process. Through this, they developed the proposals into concrete action plans.
Korea & Company Group held a meeting with executives. The meeting took the form of an open conversation in which Junior Board members asked questions and executives responded.
Topics discussed at the meeting included proactive culture, the group's strengths, experiences that influenced ways of working and its talent development philosophy. Korea & Company Group is operating the Junior Board.
Chairman Cho presented employees' sense of ownership of problems and their willingness to act as conditions for bottom-up culture to lead to results. He also said that rather than remaining focused on carrying out tasks assigned from above, employees must identify problems on their own for their resolve to solve them and their ability to act to expand.
Chairman Cho said that instead of settling for familiar knowledge, curiosity about and exploration of unknown areas are necessary. He also said there is a need to form one's own perspective through experience in diverse fields, and he presented such experience and a personal perspective as capabilities future leaders need.
Korea & Company Group operates Proactive Concert, a communication project involving all employees, and Proactive Awards, a program that selects outstanding organizations and employees. Going forward, it plans to reflect on-site voices in management and work innovation through a range of participation programs and expand opportunities for young talent to demonstrate their capabilities.
Source: TECHWORLD · Lee Gwang-jae
Original: https://www.epnc.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=408141
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