The Future Leaders Programme: Opening A World Of Opportunity

IHG's graduate scheme aims to guide talented young leaders from supervisors to future business leaders. It's known as the 'IHG Future Leaders program'. Zak Muysken, a Future Leader graduate, shared about his experiences in IHG. Let’s talk it in brief :

Being Given The Room to Grow

The Future Leaders Programme offers direct one-on-one mentorship from a General Manager who’s there to support us the whole way through. Even though I’m initially a little daunted by the idea of starting this role in housekeeping, the training programs I underwent ensured my confidence in taking on any position within IHG’s hotels. I was shown how to do every role at every level: room service, looking after public areas, cleaning, supervising, and much more. This gave me a sound knowledge of each function’s specific role in a hotel setting.

Having The Freedom To Build My Own Leadership Style

Building my own leadership style is something that comes hand-in-hand with your training. In my training at IHG, I learned how to adapt to working with a range of different cultures and personalities. This training is vital as one leadership style may not translate to different departments and colleagues, so we need to find ways to adapt to different scenarios.

Contributing to IHG’s Strategic Direction

Through our Strategic Model, I focused on value-creation by building preferred brands, delivering a superior owner proposition, leveraging scale and generating revenue through the lowest-cost, direct channels

IHG: The Company to Kick-start Your Career

If we’re looking to climb the hospitality hierarchy quickly and fast-track your development as a hotelier, the Future Leaders Programme is a great place to start. The program trained me in key functions of hotel departments and allowed us to develop our understanding of what it’s like working in a multicultural team. I was given a supportive environment I needed to take key pieces of advice from our mentor and implement them in own way. I’m very lucky to travel to different countries and experience our ‘True Hospitality’ promise from a range of perspectives, and I feel that means me I bring a holistic and inclusive view to the table - making ous a rounded leader who’s proud to work for IHG.