We work with Management units and their Teams to help them identify and formalize their priorities for themselves and to concentrate their energy on achieving them. In general, this consists in helping them address a variety of challenges at the same time:

• Formalizing the business's strategies and priorities in order to provide a medium-term orientation while focusing efforts on short term actions.
• Jointly producing a "road map" shared with the Executives and consistent with the capabilities of the organization and of the executives and with the latter's aspirations.
• Ensuring that executive teams and employees share and own their priorities.
• Focusing employee efforts on the completion of action plans that support the organization's objectives.
• Fostering employees accountability by providing them with the means to be authors and actors of not only company development but their own.
• Serving and promoting the sharing of operational expertise and practices.
• Helping people bring learning as close as possible to doing so that they can accomplish their priorities with optimal performance
• Continuing being effective in different cultural contexts (countries - businesses)

Customers

Of more than 50 businesses, we can quote Afnor, Benetton, Caterpillar Finance, Federal Express, France Telecom, GeneriX, Hydro Building Systems France, Kenzo Parfums, SAP, ServisairGlobeground, Wyeth...

Customers' Comments

• "After using the services of Practical Learning, the initiative of one single person paid back the investment made in all the employees" Joël Anquetil, VP EMEA Caterpillar Financial Product Division
• " Practical Learning helped everybody work together in the same direction" Pascal Clément, President of GénériX
• "At last, a methodology that does not generate bottlenecks, that compels you to move on to the operational stage and, when followed up, that brings results" Benjamin Colas, President BAXI France
• With the "Achievement plan methodology, I can define the strategy and monitor its implementation" Richard van Bruygom, Senior VP COO Europe ServisairGlobeground
• "I can attribute 15 % of the business's net results to the contribution made by Practical Learning " Michel Ramis, Président VCSTimeless
• "In our business, the Practical Learning approach is extremely well-founded and helps us turn our inter-cultural context into a competitive edge" Constance de Foucaud, Training Manager Travel Retail Parfums Christian Dior