UOB Digital Learning

UOB has designed the second level of Better U to enable employees who have completed the foundational level of Better U to choose the track in which they want to deep-dive. While UOB is starting with two tracks this year – data analytics and project management, it plans to expand the specialised tracks in other areas such as cybersecurity, human-centred user experience and user interface design by 2023.

The data analytics and project management tracks feature three progressive stages, which are fully-digital and designed to be in bite-sized content, so that employees can go through them at their own pace and convenience. The Bank has taken the lessons from COVID-19 safe distancing restrictions and lockdowns to ensure all colleagues can gain the skills they need, remotely and based on their work and home life demands.

Each stage of the specialised training programme enables participants to learn and to acquire skills based on their level of experience and knowledge. This ensures that the training is meaningful to those employees who are upskilling or to practitioners who feel the need to upskill themselves in their chosen discipline. In creating and curating the curriculum, UOB tapped insights from subject-matter experts across the Bank such as its technologists and data masters to ensure that these specialised skills development tracks are practical and can be applied in a real-world setting.