GlobalCCUNews
Issue 4 - 27 March, 2008
 

This is the final issue of GlobalCCU News produced before the 2008 GlobalCCU Forum, the first global event on Corporate Universities and Corporate Responsibility. This seminar, supported by the United Nations Global Compact, will bring together delegates and speakers from five continents.

The big event is in just six days!

If you haven’t registered for the forum and the Grand Dinner at the Sorbonne University yet… there is still time. Register on-line www.globalccu.com
Feel free to contact us by email with any comments or questions you may have (serene.booker@globalccu.com).

 
Annick Renaud-Coulon, founder of GlobalCCU, explains why she believes creating a strong global network of Corporate University professionals is vital
 
   
“ Setting up a global network in our interconnected world is hardly a major innovation. Anyone can subscribe to the Internet’s electronic networks; their aim is to bring together ideas and influence, but they don’t really connect real people and everything that defines their humanity. Company directors need guidance when it comes to understanding the world’s evolutions, and their day-to-day effects. The onus is on them to act quickly and effectively, avoid committing the inept errors made by others, optimize expenses and innovate. Corporate Education professionals, and particularly the heads of Corporate Universities, as well as Sustainable Development and CSR directors, all occupy posts for which there aren’t many models that are transposable from one company to another, and even less so from one culture to another. However, they do need to be recognised for their accomplishments and competencies, which are generally remarkable. Putting them in contact with each other, enabling them to see each other physically, share their most innovative practices, questions, doubts, and ideas, and to collaborate on meaningful projects, will enable them to construct long-lasting and fruitful, trust-based relationships. One of the direct consequences of this will be to give them more visibility and evolution in their profession, which is extremely useful for these professionals in their relationships with their stakeholders. For a network to succeed in the long term, it needs to be more attractive and advantageous for its members to stay in it than leave it. This will occur when common interests are well understood, and shared ambitions are pursued together. This is why we work towards constructing a Global Community of Corporate University professionals, a network of peers who could meet, if necessary, and help each other—a network that transcends borders and cultures, and reaches across continents. Our aim is to help organizations develop social and environmental responsibility through Corporate Universities, while respecting human and cultural diversity, as well as the planet. This is quite a challenge. ”
 
CEO Viewpoint
 
 
“ Our Corporate University plays a part in leveraging our understanding and implementing actions around sustainable development, both with our internal and external stakeholders. ”

Robert Brunk, Chairman and CEO, CGGVeritas (France)
  
“ CGGVeritas is the world’s leading international geophysical company providing the global oil and gas industry with superior images of the subsurface to enhance E&P performance. CGGVeritas has a culture of learning and we provide training driven by a philosophy of offering world-class development opportunities, as we believe that creating innovative and productive teams requires investment in learning to encourage professional and personal development. These principles are applied at all of our state-of-the-art CGGVeritas University centres in Paris, London, Houston, Singapore and Villahermosa, all delivering personalized training.
We also believe that a sustainable development approach to our business allows us to best achieve our short term and long term goals through meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Our Corporate University plays a part in leveraging our understanding and implementing actions around this essential belief, both with our internal and external stakeholders.
Therefore, CGGVeritas is pleased to support the 2008 GlobalCCU Forum. It is through creating strong networks and exchanging knowledge that we can best support the evolution of Corporate Universities and further strengthen their role in Corporate Responsibility. “
 
Like a lot of multinational companies, Motorola operates in China. The VP of Human Resources explains how Motorola has transferred its Corporate Responsibility culture in Asia Pacific region
 
   

Choong-Pew, Lee
 Vice President of Human Resources, Motorola Asia Pacific (China)
” The key beliefs of Motorola’s culture are: constant respect for people and uncompromising integrity. Motorola firmly believes that contributing to the development of society and community, and having a sustainable business growth can be done in parallel. That is why being a good corporate citizenship is a major part of Motorola’s development strategy in China. For the past 20 years in China, Motorola has been consistently striving to ‘be a native company’. This enables Motorola to have a deep understanding of our Chinese customers and consumers. By fusing Chinese culture with global management concept, Motorola has a seamless business relationship in China. One of the several social responsibility programmes is a special training programme Chinese Stated Owned Enterprises (SOEs). From 1997 to 2003, about 5,000 chief executive officers, managers and key engineers from the SOEs have attended courses in leadership, management, and six sigma quality provided by Motorola University. In addition, Motorola University has worked with local universities and colleges in providing scholarships, setting up of learning laboratories and equipment, and offering student training programmes. Motorola University has also participated in China Hope Project, which is a nationwide project sponsoring drop-out students in rural and remote area returning to school. The learning culture of Motorola is continuously enhanced by our senior leadership team because they led by example in facilitating workshops and seminars for our employees. Motorola University continues to offer programs to our customers, suppliers and external community. The new knowledge, know-how and findings are shared. For example, a formal program on business ethics is currently provided to our business partners and suppliers. As the results of the accomplishments Motorola has been recognized by many awards. ”
 

The top reasons to attend the 2008 GlobalCCU Forum:

  • Build a world personal network with your peers and personalities from 25 countries who you will meet face to face. Connect with Georg Kell, Executive Director of the United Nations Global Compact
  • Learn from outstanding speakers from five continents who will present their best practices
  • Benchmark your practices and projects to put your organization ahead
  • Keep in touch with the innovative world of Corporate Universities and Corporate Responsibility (CSR and Sustainable Development)
  • Learn and create knowledge on the very innovative topic of Corporate Education and Corporate Responsibility, so important for the future of the planet
  • Receive a solid grounding in this subject to improve both yourself and your organization through the latest analysis and business case from Annick Renaud-Coulon, specially written for this seminar (224 pages), a hard copy delegate’s guide (122 pages with learning tools) and case studies of speakers on a USB key
  • Share experiences and projects within a fun, and convivial club atmosphere
 

Here is a list of our outstanding speakers from five continents who will present their best practices for you to learn from:

Laurent Corbier, Marc Gomes and Jean-Paul Machet, Areva (France), Armando Marchi, Barilla (Italy), Gérard Chambovet, CGGVeritas, (France), Frédéric Olivier, Dexia, (Belgium), Frank Anderson and Chris Hardy, Defense Acquisition University (USA), Nivy Moodley, Edcon (South Africa), Annick Renaud-Coulon, GlobalCCU (France), Georg Kell, United Nations Global Compact (USA), Isabelle Calvez, Groupama (France), Guillermo Cisneros Garrido and Borja Baselga, Grupo Santander (Spain), Maria Tassone, National Australia Bank (Australia), Klaus Leisinger, Novartis (Switzerland), Helton Oliveira and Marco Farah, Petrobras (Brazil), Jacques Couture, Mouvement Desjardins (Québec, Canada), Jenny Yan, Motorola (China), Chuck O’Keefe, NACCO (USA), Mark Allen, Pepperdine University (USA), Rajul Asthana Satyam Computer Services (India), Tom Pedersen, Shinsei Bank (Japan), Hilde Sannes and Frode Birkelund, StatoilHydro (Norway), Gérard Mangin and Kate Rigge, ST Microelectronics (France and Switzerland), Nadine Lemaître, Suez with Nigel Roome, Solvay Business School (Belgium), Juan Rovira de Osso, Telefonica (Spain), Emily Maxon, Tenaris (Argentina), José Angel Fernandez Izard, Union Fenosa (Spain), Dayse Gomes and Tatiana Matos, VALE (Brazil), Henri Proglio, Christian Dapilly and Hilaire de Chergé, Veolia Environnement (France), Katherine Madden, WBCSD (Switzerland).
 
An event within the eventl: GlobalCCU Grand Dinner at the Sorbonne University on 3 April 2008 at 8:30 p.m.
 
 
An elegant GlobalCCU Grand Dinner will be held on the second evening of the forum at the historic Sorbonne University in Paris. As well as enjoying the splendour of this one oldest University in the world, which was founded in the 13th century, attendees can discuss over dinner with peers from many different countries and cultures around the world. It is an exceptional opportunity to meet our guest of honour, Mr Georg Kell, the Executive Director of the United Nations Global Compact in New York, who will preside over the evening. This convivial occasion is also open to non-participants of the 2008 GlobalCCU Forum (Academics, diplomats, civil society representatives...). Go to the website www.globalccu.com to find out how to book your ticket or a table at this grand event. The evening is punctuated with musical interludes by the Ganymed ensemble.
 

2008 GlobalCCU Forum Update

ALL IS READY - The GlobalCCU team now excitedly awaits the start of the 2008 GlobalCCU Forum and is eager for you to explore all the wonderful elements that constitute this exceptional seminar.

At the end of the 2008 GlobalCCU Forum, we will present the project of the creation of the GlobalCCU non-profit organisation. Its aim is to achieve the following great goals: share practices and news, create links, produce knowledge and competence, to assess up-to-date learning ways and to have major influence.

The vision is to be the Global Community of Corporate University professionals, connecting them in a global network to learn from one another:

  • Creating, sharing and co-constructing a corpus of knowledge on Corporate Universities useful for its members.
  • Fostering the diversity of existing Corporate University models worldwide in order to highlight the different learning ways, helping Corporate Universities to adapt to different cultures
  • Giving momentum to the evolution of the Corporate University phenomenon in the lifeline educational chain and develop new avenues to cooperative learning and Corporate Social and Environmental Responsibility.

Please contact us (email: serene.booker@globalccu.com) if you are interested in getting involved in this project, even if you are not able to attend the 2008 GlobalCCU Forum.
 
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