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Fundación Transforma España launches the 2016
edition of the
Multi-company Talent Development
Program
Some of the most important companies
in the country are participating in the
2016 edition of the Multi-company Talent
Development Program to train future
leaders, applying tools to enable the sharing
of the best practices among professionals
and companies. Sponsored by Fundación
Transforma España, the aim of the initiative
is to accelerate the presence of young,
high-potential profiles in the Management
Committees of companies in Spain.
The companies participating in this first group
are 3M, Cofares, FCC, Fundación Once,
FSC Inserta, General Electric, Grupo SM,
Medtronic, Mondelez and Xerox. They will
be forming working groups with more than
60 employees participating who, divided
by specialties, will share the knowledge of
the different companies by means of tools
such as mentoring and coaching to develop
talent by applying the experiences of other
companies and by being in touch with other
professionals in the various organizations
that can contribute a different point of view
and different ways of doing things.
After the program’s pilot test in 2015, with
the collaboration of Adecco, APD, BBVA,
FCC, Everis, Iberia, Leaders Trust, Lee
Hetch Harrison, Microsoft, Russell Reynolds
Associates, Santander, Telefónica, Unidad
Editorial y Zurich, a tool guide for future
editions was prepared which can be adapted
in the event that the groups consider
it appropriate. Thanks to this manual,
companies of any size can showcase their
in-house talent, individually or through
multi-company experiences, adapting the
program to the needs of each company, in
a scalable manner, to new cities, entities,
and the size of the work groups. The guide
is available to any company, free-of-charge,
at the Foundation’s website thus making it
possible to reproduce the program in any
geographical location in the country.
The 2016 edition of the programwill therefore
be launched with the collaboration of these 9
companies. More than 40 other companies
have shown an interest to date and will be
part of the new groups to promote learning
and the decision-making process based on
experiences. In fact, there will be a total of
four working groups, two in Madrid and two
in Barcelona, and the first steps are being
taken to implement this initiative in Valencia.
The Multi-company Talent Development
Program is the first collaborative
economy program in Spain, focused on
managinganddeveloping thecapabilities
and skills of employees, and one of
the few in Europe in which companies
from different sectors participate.
This new talent management method is
underpinned by two pillars: inter-sector
collaborationthatliftstraditionalcorporate
barriers on the basis of transparency
and joint progress, and the development
of the self-leadership, responsibility and
initiative of the youngest employees
in their own career development.
Through the inter-company exchange of
methodologies, procedures, managers
and mentors, multidisciplinary profiles
and the skills, required for success in
the corporate world, are developed.
First collaborative
economy program in
Spain