The Boston-based mutual fund company said the new program includes five distinct levels of professional development, each with coursework and clear guidelines for achievement benchmarks and timelines. The program also features a more-experienced managers' school, a high-potential program and a managing partners program.
"We've created a program through which our participants will get the training and experience they'll need for management roles, in a format that will help them know - without a doubt - if they're meeting our targets for them," said Karyn O'Connor, vice president, John Hancock Financial Network.
The leadership development effort demonstrates the company's renewed commitment to the John Hancock career agency system following its merger with
