At Accenture, we do not just have learning down to a science. We literally wrote the book on it. Return on Learning, published in 2007, tells the story of how we reignited learning for a whole new generation of Accenture people, including our award-winning study demonstrating the return we make on our learning investment. Your Accenture Education experience begins the first day you walk through the door, and continues each day of your career. Every step of the way you’re learning, growing, and building yourself—getting ready to meet the next challenge that comes your way.
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Soon after joining Accenture, you will attend New Joiner Orientation. This multi-day class experience gives you the essential knowledge you need to launch your Accenture career, whether you are straight out of university or a workforce veteran. Since New Joiner Orientation is a world-wide program, it serves as your introduction to our one global network. But since it is conducted near your home, you will get the specific information you need as an Accenture employee in your location.
New Joiner Orientation is just the first element of your Accenture Education curriculum. Your curriculum is the set of courses and learning experiences that you complete to give you the basic, foundational knowledge you need to succeed at each level of your Accenture career. You will join your colleagues from all over the world, either virtually or live, as you collaborate and learn together.
“One Global Network” is one of Accenture’s core values. Nowhere does that play out more fully than in the way our people learn.
Many Accenture people attend core training courses at the Q Center, outside of Chicago, Illinois, or at one of our regional training centers near London, England and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. At these locations, Accenture people from around the world gather to learn from each other, collaborate, and build professional relationships that can last for a career. Other classroom-based courses are held at regional locations around the world.
But at Accenture, learning does not stop when you walk out of the classroom. Accenture’s single global learning portal, myLearning, directs our people to over 20,000 online courses, virtual classroom courses, and other learning resources to meet almost any business need.
Find out more on the specialized training we offer our Consulting, Enterprise, Services, and Accenture Technology Solutions employees.
And learning is not just about courses. We know that for every hour you spend in a training course, you spend many more hours on-the-job. With the support you get from the Knowledge Exchange, our knowledge management system, as well as the feedback you get from your supervisors and colleagues, you will be learning every minute of every day of your Accenture career.
If you are like most people, training is an important factor in choosing an employer. And you may be comparing the total training provided by different organizations to help decide.
A recent research study shows that for every hour of training our competitors give their people, Accenture employees receive two hours, at half the cost per hour. Specifically, our $700 million investment in training resulted in an average of 83 training hours per person, for a total of more than 9 million hours of training delivered.
In fact, we are setting the standard for learning at work. Accenture Education programs have been recognized and honored around the business world, winning prestigious awards such as the CLO Magazine Gold Award for Leading Business Change, the Most Admired Knowledge Enterprise (MAKE) award from the Knowledge Network, and multiple Brandon Hall Excellence in eLearning awards.
Another unique aspect of your Accenture Education experience is the idea of “leaders teaching leaders.” Many of our classroom courses are facilitated by Accenture leaders who teach from their own experience, having experienced many of the successes and challenges you will face on the job. In fact, last year over 2000 of our faculty assignments were filled by Accenture leaders from all of our workforces, all around the world. It is a great way to learn, and a great opportunity for Accenture people to contribute and pass on what they have learned.
As excited as we are about the Accenture Education experience, we know there is always room to improve. We continually review and revise our learning products, ensuring they are up-to-date with the latest ideas, information and needs of the marketplace.
Beyond just the content, we are recreating the way that Accenture people learn. Our Center for Learning Innovation is a group of key learning leaders that is continually developing, testing and implementing new ways for Accenture people to learn. From training on mobile devices to interactive conversations that feel more like a video game than a training course, our focus on innovation guarantees that Accenture people will always be on the leading edge of learning.