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ENRICHING PERFORMANCE AND COMMITMENTS ENRICHING ACCOUNTABILITY AND INTEGRITY ENRICHING RESILIENCE AND SUSTAINABLE GROWTH OTHER INFORMATION

KWAP Young talent (KYt) 3.0 Programme Succession Planning
The KYT Programme is a management trainee programme Succession planning is integral to ensuring the continuity,
by KWAP, established in 2014. This programme provides sustainability and effective governance of KWAP’s
career enhancements and learning opportunities through leadership pipeline. These strategies are systematically
various interventions to increase our young talent’s integrated into KWAP and its subsidiaries. In the event
competencies as well as business and leadership of critical positions becoming vacant within KWAP or its
savviness, in preparing them towards becoming the future subsidiaries, the succession plan is promptly activated
experts and leaders in KWAP. to deploy suitable and prepared successors, ensuring
seamless transitions and uninterrupted operations.
During the year, KWAP welcomed 13 young talents from
both local and international universities into the KWAP Our succession planning involves:
Young Talent 3.0 Programme. To foster their growth
and development, these individuals will undergo a 1. Discussion and nomination of successors amongst the
comprehensive one-month hybrid (virtual and in-person) C-Suites’ and Heads of Departments;
training programme before integrating into their respective 2. Identification of candidates based on criteria;
departments. We anticipate that our young talents will
infuse KWAP with fresh perspectives, diverse backgrounds 3. Identification of potential successors with short-term
and a digital mindset, aligning with our vision for the future (one to two years) or medium-term (three to five years)
of work. With this latest cohort, KWAP had successfully readiness to fulfil the expectations of critical positions;
onboarded a total of 141 young talents since the inception and
of the programme in 2014. 4. Formalisation of the identification of successors for

critical positions in KWAP through Human Resource
Committee’s approval.

92.6% of our critical positions have at least one identified
successor with short-term or medium-term readiness.

KWAP’s Young Talent 3.0 employees.
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