With its four core elements, motiv8 provides the necessary tools to evaluate and support each employee according to his or her abilities, performance and targets: First, you will show proof of your managerial ability. Second, we will discuss your career at DHL. Third, we will plan your career with you. And, fourth, we will support you.

Highly valuable employees at DHL have eight core competencies. As a basis of the performance-review session and the entire process, each person knows what is expected and how these expectations can be met.

• Qualification area: business

1. customer orientation
2. business acumen
3. cross-border thinking

• Qualification area: leadership

4. shaping directions
5. constructive challenge
6. building and leading teams

• Qualification area: spirit

7. building and managing partnerships
8. commitment to excel

Anybody who shows that he or she is capable of exceeding these standards can become a leader. Through the annual performance-review sessions, we learn about your success in reaching your goals. But we also focus on the equally important question of how you got there. After all, you will be the one who determines your progress within the company. In an individual, constructive and honest dialogue at the end of the year, you and your supervisor will determine how successful you were in reaching your goals. The results are documented and discussed. Soon, they will provide a comprehensive overview of your potential within the company.

Your career at DHL will be advanced on the basis of a personal development plan that will focus both on the manifold professional opportunities within DHL and DHL's requirements, and on your existing expertise and experience. Based on the requirements of the target position, the most effective measures will be selected and applied. But there is more to the process than seminars and management training programs. Learning can also be done on the job, allowing you to develop and apply your knowledge, abilities and experience directly.