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At Walmart, a promising young “for people iN mY geNeratioN to properlY
executive might attend the Walton
Institute to learn about the company’s Be prepared for leadership, it’s all aBout
culture and beliefs, and then the eNgagemeNt – Both iNside Your compaNY aNd
Leadership Academy for higher-level out. if You’re Not eNgaged iN what’s goiNg oN,
executive training.
“That’s where we’re trying to iden- You caN’t Be aN effectiVe leader.”
tify the really top performers, the people
we believe have a lot of growth poten- —JasoN wiNg, seNior maNager of safetY, compliaNce,
tial,” Hammonds said. aNd traiNiNg at aBf freight
a hoListic aPProach
First, though, every new hire goes
through a standard 90-day onboard- of the industry from the ground up. the rubber meets the road, and others
ing process, where new transportation “The leaders today are folks that need to do more.”
management employees rotate through started at the ground level where the These young managers are extreme-
each division of the department, getting rubber meets the road, literally, and ly smart and bring badly needed skills
hands-on experience with each facet and worked their way up through the to the trucking industry, Wing said, but
learning how all the pieces fit together. ranks,” said Jason Wing, senior manag- they are much more effective if they
As more and more young profes- er of safety, compliance, and training at also have a full understanding of what
sionals come into the trucking industry ABF and chair of the Arkansas Trucking goes on at the street level.
straight from college programs rather Association’s 40 Under 40 Council. When Wing first hired on at ABF
than through being raised in a fam- “Today, they’re coming out of college after college, he spent time at a truck-
ily business, that kind of thorough right into management roles. Some load carrier as part of his training in
onboarding process is especially valu- companies do a good job making those the safety department, and even went
able to make sure they learn all aspects people experience what happens when through truck driving school. In his

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