Innovators in the field of company training

Innovators in the field of company training

A new Training Centre at the Group’s Milan headquarters will host courses for the Prysmian Group Academy, with more than 1,000 attendees planned for 2017.

In a major step forwards in its strategy of developing human c apital, Prysmian Group inaugurated its Training Centre at the new Milan headquarters. With more than 1,000 attendees and a total of 150 training days planned for 2017, its new classrooms will host the courses of the Prysmian Group Academy, the Group’s corporate university created in 2012 in collaboration with the SDA Bocconi School of Management for managerial training.

Two classrooms will host courses for the two major departments into which the Academy is organised: the School of Management, which aims at strengthening leadership and management skills, and the Professional School, which aims to develop and strengthen technical skills via transfer from senior staff to their younger counterparts.

Five years on since its creation over 1,500 individuals of various nationalities have received training from 50 SDA Bocconi faculty members, and professors from some of the world’s foremost business schools, as well as over 180 senior Prysmian employees who have made their know-how and expertise available to the company.

“We are extremely proud to have inaugurated the Training Centre at our new Headquarters,” stated Fabrizio Rutschmann, Senior Vice President HR & Organisation at Prysmian. “This is a further step forwards in our strategy of developing human capital, which represents a valuable, essential resource for the Group.”

Prysmian is one of the first large Italian companies to have founded its own school dedicated to managerial and professional training, confirming its standing as a major innovator in the field of company training. The Academy is a concrete tool for sharing managerial and technical best practices. Thanks to its international nature, it fosters an innovative, entrepreneurial approach to business and a shared spirit of diversity and integration.

AT THE ROOT OF MANUFACTURING

The new Training Centre is located at the Group’s recently built headquarters in Milan’s historic manufacturing district, Bicocca  and embraces sustainability and smart working as two fundamental concepts. The Milan Academy follows on from the success of the Manufacturing Academy, inaugurated in 2016 at the Mudanya plant in Turkey. The Product, Innovation & Technology Academy in Lexington, USA, is scheduled to be opened by year-end.

FOR A BETTER, INCLUSIVE FUTURE

Prysmian Cables and Systems USA recently organised its first Women’s Leadership Conference in Lexington, South Carolina, attended by people from different facilities throughout the region. The programme included sessions on negotiation, effective communications, work-life balance and and set into motion a program to guide mentoring relationships within the organization. Hakan Ozmen, CEO Prysmian USA, made reference to the American motto, ‘E Pluribus Unum’, to stress the need to embrace, as a society, equal pay, equal opportunity, equal education and equal rights for all. Creating an inclusive culture takes both commitment and action and this conference was an important step towards introducing such an environment.