Talent Development System

　NOF promotes a talent development system including support for “correspondence courses,” in which each employee is allowed to choose his/her own training options, “training at the organizational level,” which is made to suit issues in different levels, as well as “training regarding specific issues,” which is suited to enhance the employees’ expertise and is made in accordance with specific issues that arise in execution of duties.
　This system effectively promotes talent development suited to each individual and his/her work, while at the same time aiming to make work more rewarding, invigorate the organization, and help to realize sustainable business growth for NOF.


Leadership
　NOF is actively working to develop the leadership skills of its employees so that everyone, regardless of attributes such as age, can ambitiously take on challenges and achieve personal growth.
　In line with the diversity concept of “respecting diversity, including gender and other attributes, and aiming to create an organization where people with talent and ambition can play an active role,” NOF has introduced “diversity training” for female employees to develop their leadership skills. In order to enhance the effectiveness of the “diversity training” and promote the active participation of women, the content of the training has been customized and is also offered to managers regardless of gender.
　In addition, we are fostering leadership skills through “training at the organizational level” depending on job post, as well as “training regarding specific issues,” which enhances the employees’ expertise. At the NOF Management School, which is responsible for developing the next generation of management, we implement programs that include discussions on transforming the future focus of the NOF Group. In addition, we provide feedback on participants’ leadership assessment results, helping them understand their own leadership traits and fostering the leadership ability to create and execute new initiatives from scratch.


Promoting training at the organizational level and regarding specific issues
　In an effort to conduct more effective human resources development, NOF has set up a talent development system with a framework involving training at the organizational level and training regarding specific issues. The relatively junior employees mainly undergo training at the organizational level, while management-level employees undergo training regarding specific issues.
　In fiscal 2023, a total of 2,489 people participated in training at the organizational level and regarding specific issues.
　Irrespective of these talent development systems, we offer a variety of training and educational opportunities necessary for business operations.
　In fiscal 2023, in response to the implementation of the revised Corporate Philosophy and Guiding Framework in April of that year, we held workshops for all employees, etc. to share the newly defined values and promote understanding of autonomous actions based on these values.
Additionally, as part of our efforts aligned with these values, we have started offering opportunities for employees to engage with the perspectives of managers from various fields, cultural figures, and researchers. This aims to promote the growth of autonomous human resources who can utilize a broader perspective and advanced expertise in their work.
　We have also newly added training to our competency framework enabling employees to independently and Proactively consider their medium-term career design. In addition, we have systematically implemented initiatives such as training programs for developing digital transformation (DX) human resources and fostering the next generation of managerial human resources.

Hours of training and costs
　Based on the basic philosophy that “a company is its people,” we will actively invest in human capital and encourage the growth of human resources who embody the NOF Group’s values of “Challenges,” “Fairness,” and “Harmony,” and can also create new value.
　As human investment for securing human resources, human resources development, etc., NOF is implementing workplace environment improvement, expansion of talent development programs, and initiatives for digital transformation (DX) human resources development.
　In fiscal 2023, training hours at NOF totaled 17,000 hours, including group and workshop training (10.0 hours per employee), at a total training cost of 159 million yen. In addition, training hours at NOF and its five domestic consolidated companies totaled 19,982 hours, including group and workshop training (7.3 hours per employee).
　

Support for self-education/development
　NOF provides a wide range of self-education/development programs such as various correspondence courses and e-learning courses (e.g., business skills and languages) to support the spirit of challenge of motivated employees and to encourage further skill development and the self-realization of each individual. In fiscal 2023, a total of 384 employees took advantage of the various correspondence courses and e-learning courses.

Promotion for acquiring official qualifications
　The NOF Group supports employees’ efforts to acquire official qualifications in many different aspects. In fiscal 2023, a total of 510 people newly acquired 45 types of such qualifications.

　People who acquired qualifications
　　　FY2021：362 people（41 types）
　　　FY2022：366 people（43 types）
　　　FY2023：510 people（45 types）