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SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
COMMITTED TO AND ON BEHALF OF EMPLOYEES
Research & Development: the Offer Creation Academy
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provides challenging, best-in-class education and exposure
addresses the competency needs of the Offer Creation Process opportunities for 260 global high potential leaders. This innovative
(OCP) to ensure the right competency levels of R&D employees approach to leadership development has led to enhanced
globally. The range of learning offers covers the entire OCP leadership acumen and accelerated career advancement, ensuring
lifecycle, addressing skills such as project management, design the continuity of Schneider Electric’s leadership pipeline.
and testing, R&D processes, software tools,etc.; The focus of leadership development in 2014 continued to be the
Sales through Partners: the Sales Excellence Academy is set to
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front line managers’ population.
prepare the transactional sales force for the challenges of the
Global tools and enablers
commercial transformation in line with business strategies. It
develops training paths for sales engineers, representatives and
managers in order to impart knowledge, skills and behavior to
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«My Learning Link»
sell through partners (about 12,000employees). The curriculum
being developed aims to cover both «foundational My Learning Link, Schneider Electric’s global learning platform
competencies» for all sales people in contact with customers which integrates e-learning, webinars, social learning, classroom
and «advanced courses» to address sophisticated sales learning, assessments and full certification paths, was
environments or coaching skills; progressively deployed in all countries in 2013 and took off in
Solutions: the Solutions University offers a comprehensive
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2014. Academies and country-level courses are registered in My
portfolio with a flexible approach including 18 blended Learning Link:
certification curricula and 10programs for leaders and
more than 20,000 modules of learning content are available in
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managers, tailored to organization’s needs and performance
7languages;
environments. The Solutions University’s aim is to support the
solutions and services business growth, greater business 125,000 employees have access to the system;
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collaboration and more agility. At the end of 2014, around 88,000 employees followed at least one day training
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13,000enrolled candidates from 92 countries have taken the (instructor-led training and digital learning) in 2014.
Solutions University learning paths, delivering 6,689certificates. No managerial approval is required for employees to register for
Leadership Development
online courses; employees are actively encouraged to take the
responsibility for developing their competencies. This platform is
The ongoing development of leaders within Schneider Electric is instrumental in developing the skills of the workforce at all levels,
seen as a critical element of our future success. «One supporting business strategies by targeted learning activities as
Leadership» is a suite of programs deployed on a global level by well as enabling them to become a stronger actor in their own
the Leadership Academy to support the leadership development development. It is also instrumental in reaching the Group’s
needs of managers at all levels. Approximately 3,500managers objective of one day of training per employee per year, which is
participated globally in the different offers for leaders and senior part of the Planet & Society Barometer.
leaders. My Learning Link is also used to deliver online training programs to
LEAP (Leadership Excellence Acceleration Program) is the regional Schneider Electric customers. In 2014, the Partner Relationship
high potential program of One Leadership; it develops high Management (PRM) program has been deployed in 8 countries,
potential leaders for future regional leadership roles. Inclusive in its including a training module that provides our partners with
design is the «3E» approach (Experience, Exposure and dedicated learning paths based on their area of expertise.
Education), simulations and projects to address real business
Spice
problems. Approximately 400high potential leaders have attended
these regionally run programs in 2014.
Spice is Schneider Electric’s social media platform; it also creates
Our executive development offer, Lead to Achieve, Lead to Impact a learning environment in which many internal communities can
and Lead to Inspire, brings multi-level leaders together and exchange, share knowledge, experiences and documents.
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