Executive education

We believe that facilitating learning consists primarily in organising knowledge available within firms. Sometimes, managers need a framework to make thinking more intelligible, sometimes, they may need to be surprised by new ideas that go against taken for granted assumptions. Our institute delivers executive education with senior managers as a core audience through blended learning approaches where the learner with her knowledge and practices is positioned at the center.

Our experience of more than 20 years in education has exposed us to all sorts of audiences

• From General managers to functional directors,
• From marketers to sales or R&D managers,
• As well as various profiles of learners.

We design trainings, build programmes and develop learning maps for large multinationals, including L’Oréal, Brambles, Sanofi, Pharmex, Groupe Danone, Groupe SEB, Kingfischer, Nutricia, Kraft Mondelez, Auchan, Chanel, Michelin, Vodafone, to quote just a few.

We facilitate trainings in many in-house universities.

We also facilitate Executive Committee strategic workshop, in particular when commercial and market issues are at stake.

Our institute is used to teaming up with other faculty members, consulting firms or company managers to design and deliver the most appropriate programmes, fully aligned on the strategic concerns of our clients.

Designing programmes

From training to learning

We help corporate learning organisations define their programmes with respect to the broad strategic objectives of the company. We consult learning organisations on how to build their governance, connect and engage with key stakeholders, identify internal and external high quality suppliers. We contribute to designing learning maps, the portfolio of programmes and activities that goes with these maps. We help monitor the evaluation and review processes of learning and development initiatives.

Developing modules

Connecting learning modes

We build executive development programmes with a variety of delivery modes (i.e. face to face training, action learning, development of learning apps, learning expeditions, etc.) that deal with subjects where we have a strong background, and this is the construction and shaping of markets. We like to work with the active involvement of a steering committee made of professionals and topic experts. We seek to have the right balance between internal and external practices as a source of inspiration and learning.

 

Training trainers

And preferably, facilitators

Our experience of designing and delivering effective learning sessions led us to train trainers and / or facilitators. Future facilitators need to understand why adult learning differs from pedagogic for children. They have to be aware of the variety of learning styles and be familiar with instructional design methodologies. They want to apply effectively facilitation techniques for managing participants, engaging a variety of learning styles, and creating an effective positive learning environment. At times, they will be confronted to managing critical conversations and need to learn how to address them. We train professional to designing engaging learner-centered facilitation.

 

Facilitating learning sessions

Building on participants' practices

A facilitator is a guide to help people move through a process together. That means a facilitator isn't there just to expose theories and share his experience, but he also wants to draw out opinions and ideas of the group members. Facilitation focuses on how people participate in the process of learning, not just on what gets achieved. While they have to get through an agenda and make sure that important concepts, methodologies or strategic issues are discussed (and sometimes decisions made or actions taken), good facilitators don't feel that they have all of the answers or should talk all the time. Equally important is making sure the group feels that the learning's are grounded in their world, as much as in formal theories.