Intro Power Inclusive Future For All FY23 Purpose Report | 27 Looking Ahead Employee experience We know we get the best ideas and insights when we Catalyzing team development listen to and learn from our people. Through internal research and feedback channels, our employees One of the channels for employees to provide regular candid shared their interest in greater development resources. In response, feedback is through our Real Deal survey, 昀椀rst launched in 昀椀scal 2016. we developed a quarterly program for all Cisco employees, Recent responses highlighted a common theme—the need for clearer Illuminate. We began our Illuminate journey in 2022, and in 昀椀scal pathways for career advancement. This helped shape the launch 2023 we continued to expand our program with new areas of of Career & Learning, Cisco’s 昀椀rst dedicated career strategy that focus for collective growth. Illuminate your Career aimed to inspire employees can use to accelerate their professional development. It is all employees to unlock their career aspirations by building their built on the idea that careers need to be driven by individuals, enabled brand and growing their network, and visits to our internal Career by leaders, and supported by the systems around us. & Learning site increased 591 percent following the event. Access Our people strategy is also guided by ongoing Future of Work to personalized one-on-one career coaching sessions was also research, which analyzes the employee experience and helps inform extended to all Cisconians. Illuminate Your Team enabled leaders solutions for employees navigating hybrid work. From this research and teams to engage in self-paced workshops focused on building and our Real Deal insights, we learned that regular check-ins with healthy, high-performing teams in a hybrid world. After the event, leaders predict higher employee engagement and career success, 90 percent of attendees reported con昀椀dence that the action plans and our people want more consistent and open conversations with they developed would help their team work better together. their leaders. These 昀椀ndings helped inform the new performance and development strategies we rolled out this year to help ensure the Upskilling our teams at a success of our leaders and teams. crucial moment 2.3 million Technology continues to shape our world and our work. Now more than ever, technical literacy is crucial for workers in many 昀椀elds. Cisco’s Team Space Check-Ins submitted TECH for Non-TECH program focuses on upskilling and career mobility 85% 8% for people in nontechnical roles and provides a better understanding of the technical aspects of Cisco’s products. Interactive virtual classes of employees submitted increase from cover topics like cloud computing, networking, data science, security, software development, and emerging technologies. In 昀椀scal 2023 we Check-Ins 昀椀scal 2022 launched 21 new course o昀昀erings and reached 7471 attendees.