Aflac Helps Develop Employees Using Harvard ManageMentor® from Harvard Business Publishing

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- All 4,500 employees of Aflac Incorporated (www.aflac.com) now have access to a learning tool from one of the most recognized names in leadership—Harvard Business Publishing (www.harvardbusiness.org/corporate). Aflac, the number one provider of supplemental insurance in the United States, began offering today its employees Harvard ManageMentor® (www.harvardmanagementor.org), a proven online program for management essentials that addresses a broad range of issues they face every day. Aflac is making the program available to all employees through Harvard Business Publishing’s corporate learning group.

“Harvard ManageMentor puts expert advice from world-renowned business leaders literally at your fingertips,” says Greg Miller, Aflac’s chief learning officer. “Through this program, we are offering Aflac employees an opportunity to learn critical new business skills and brush up existing capabilities and talents.”

With audio downloads, video clips, interactive activities and other tools, Harvard ManageMentor gives users instant access to practical information that can be used immediately to address issues. The 44 modules address fundamental business topics, including business essentials, communication skills, personal development, and strategy essentials.

“Our team is proud to work with Aflac to offer their team the resources and tools they need to be even more successful,” said Ray Carvey, executive vice president, corporate learning and international, Harvard Business Publishing. “This investment in employees fits with Aflac’s reputation as an outstanding employer and with our focus on developing great leaders at all levels of our client organizations.”

Aflac employees will benefit from:

• Immediate access at any time to a wide variety of content, resources and tools such as worksheets and step-by-step guides to solve specific problems. Examples range from crisis management, to managing upward, to how to lead and motivate.
• Structured content from notable and respected experts. The issues and topics are specific and highly defined, such as how to negotiate and establish performance measurements.
• Teaching and mentoring advice for managers who need to lead development discussions with their teams and others, around such topics as persuading others, retaining employees and feedback essentials.
• Collaboration with others by helping structure informal learning and how to share that learning with others.

“Our employees at every level and throughout the organization are critical to our company’s success,” said Joseph Bohling, Aflac’s senior vice president and chief human resources officer. “It’s important that we offer our employees flexible tools, content and resources that help them do their jobs better every day.”

About Harvard Business Publishing

Harvard Business Publishing Corporate Learning partners with clients to create world-class leadership development solutions for managers at all levels. We leverage the management insight, thought leadership, and expertise of Harvard Business School faculty and authors from Harvard Business Reviewto create tailored leadership development solutions. With more than 20 years of practical experience, our innovative, technology-enabled solutions drive meaningful and lasting business results. Corporate Learning is a market group within Harvard Business Publishing. For more information, visit www.harvardbusiness.org/corporate.

About AFLAC

When a policyholder gets sick or hurt, Aflac pays cash benefits fast. For more than 55 years, Aflac insurance policies have helped provide a safety net and given policyholders the opportunity to focus on recovery, not financial stress. In the United States, Aflac is the number one provider of guaranteed-renewable insurance. In Japan, Aflac is the number one life insurance company in terms of individual policies in force. Aflac insurance products provide protection to more than 50 million people worldwide. For six consecutive years, Aflac has been recognized by Ethisphere magazine as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies and by Forbes magazine as one of America's Best-Managed Companies in the Insurance category. In 2012, FORTUNE magazine recognized Aflac as one of the 100 Best Companies to Work For for the 14th consecutive year. Also, Fortune magazine included Aflac on its list of Most Admired Companies for the 11th time in 2012. Aflac Incorporated is a Fortune 500 company listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol AFL. To find out more about Aflac, visit aflac.com or aflacenespanol.com.

Harvard Business PublishingGwen Gulick, 617-783-7551
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AflacJon A. Sullivan, 706-763-4813
jsullivan@aflac.com

Source: Harvard Business Publishing