Achieving the Company objective of becoming the leader of the steel industry of the future requires constant focus on the development of the management team. Our management training programmes help managers to adjust their behaviour, improve their personal efficiency and develop their leadership skills. We use a variety of training methodologies for the three highest levels of management, including coaching, mentoring and teamwork sessions.

Our training curriculum for production unit directors, plant managers and foremen is based on mandatory programmes ensuring that our employees at each level acquire the correct management and leadership skills. These programmes also include training on compliance with employee labour rights. For example, in 2018 we provided 1,270 hours of training in the legal aspects of employee management alone.

Severstal`s Management Training Programmes:

• Achieve More Together
• Severstal Business Academy
• Efficient Department Management
• Severstal Leadership Lab
• In 2018 we launched the Severstal Leadership Lab, designed to accelerate the implementation of our revised Business Strategy.

In addition to mandatory programmes and additional training for managers, all Severstal employees can choose to complete any training programme available in the catalogue. The catalogue includes a variety of educational material on a range of competencies. Our distance learning system is accessible to all employees , whenever needed to deliver on their business objectives. My Education and Development portal contains online courses dedicated to teamwork, public speaking, negotiating and persuading, personal efficiency and organisation, and so forth.
Approximately 5,000 employees use the materials from our online library.

For incoming foremen and workers, we have a Foreman Academy programme in place that includes three mandatory and several optional training courses specific to the production area and individual student needs. The programme includes an eight-hour module in the Legal Aspects of Human Relations.

Severstal works consistently on employee development. We rely on both internal resources and regional educational institutions (universities, colleges, other learning facilities) in educating our workers and we also send our employees to other cities for training, primarily Moscow and St. Petersburg.

In 2018, we focused on in-depth professional training, focusing on special-purpose cross-training programmes for our employees.

Severstal Leadership Programme is designed to train the Company’s Future Leaders from among our new graduates and young professionals. Programme participants have the opportunity to receive practical woek experience in Severstal’s Business System, in operations, finance, purchasing and sales. Within five to seven years, these employees could be candidates to join the TOP 100 Severstal executive team.

Engaging High School and University Students and Young Professionals Recruiting high-potential young talent helps Severstal to fulfil our long-term need for skilled professionals. To build a long-term talent pool, Severstal encourages interest in the mining and steelmaking industry among young people, making significant investments in education and working with schools and universities.

Severstal partners on talent development with approximately 20 specialised universities, six vocational schools and several high schools offering specialised Severstal programmes in the cities where we work. Around 300 colleges and university graduates are offered roles within the Company every year.

Severstal strives to help its employees secure adequate accommodations. Our employees in St. Petersburg (Kolpino) are supported in buying corporate apartments, with zero-interest seven-year financing and a 15% discount on a cash deal.

Health resort treatments and wellness programmes are a special component of our healthcare and disease prevention programmes. Health resorts, recreation centres and summer wellness camps in Anapa, Sochi, North Caucasus, as well as Leningrad, Pskov, Moscow, Yaroslavl and Vologda oblasts have been traditional vacation destinations for our employees for many years. Severstal’s Torovo corporate vacation complex is visited by more than 20,000 metallurgists and their family members every year.

Severstal offers corporate pension plans and alumni benefits. Severstal Russian Steel pays monthly pension benefits to its retirees depending on years of service through Blago charitable foundation. Non-working retirees receive more than 20 types of support, such as financial and special aid.