CCL - Europe, Middle East, Africa - Impact & Alumni Profiles
CCL's Work with Aviva Featured in World Finance Video
Managing talent and developing leaders with the right skills, at the right time, are absolutely crucial to business. Doing so in a global marketplace requires individuals and organizations to think and act beyond current boundaries. Through our exclusive focus on creative leadership, CCL was able to work with Aviva in understanding and responding to their challenge of talent management. (more...)
Individuals often look to us to apply our research and leadership development experience to the current and future issues they face. The following are a few examples of how our open-enrolment programmes have been used to address the leadership component of our clients' challenges.
Case and Impact Studies
CCL's Flagship Program Delivers Results in Europe
Report shows 100 percent of program participants confirm direct impact. (more...)
Impact Study: Sonoco - Growing Future Leaders Through An Innovative Coaching Process
Sonoco, a global provider of packaging solutions, has long attributed its success to the people who have worked for the company over its 106-year history and helped turn it into a $3.2 billion business with more than 300 operations in 35 countries. A symbol of Sonoco's people-oriented tradition of respect and appreciation is a bronze statue titled "People Build Businesses" that stands at the entrance to its corporate headquarters in Hartsville, South Carolina, USA. With a strong belief that long-term investment in people is important to sustain the company's historical success, Sonoco's challenge was how best to develop future leaders from within. (more...) (PDF, 458 KB)
Case Study: Xerox Corporation - Blended Learning Prepares Leaders Around the World
Start with the imperative to develop next-generation leaders, add the pressure to do it efficiently, and then kick it up a notch by mixing employees from 16 countries into the same experience. A partnership between Xerox Corporation and CCL has taken this complex challenge and turned it into a recipe for success. (more...) (PDF, 60 KB)
Alumni Profiles
Coaching for Development
Oya Basaran, director of English Language Programs at Istanbul Bilgi University, uses a lesson in coaching to open the door to change.
Despite an abundance of developmental opportunities available to faculty in the English Language programs at Istanbul Bilgi University, Director Oya Basaran found that the traditional ways of teaching weren't budging much at all. (more...) (PDF, 169 KB)
Foundations of Leadership
Amid an environment of extraordinary diversity, Dr. Olivier Fleurot, an R&D manager, absorbs a world of learning about effective leadership.
Based in Prague as a research and development manager for Unilever, Olivier Fleurot's work life revolves around delivering value innovation to the home and personal care brands his Anglo-Dutch company has so successfully established around the world. (more...) (PDF, 97 KB)
Leadership at the Peak
Michael Kowal, a senior vice president with RadioShack Corp. enhances his professional development in one of the most stimulating of settings.
Taking place against the backdrop of the Swiss Alps, Leadership at the Peak in Europe is noted not only for spectacular scenery but also for the international diversity of those who come to this exclusive programme. Michael Kowal, a senior vice president with RadioShack Corp. in Dallas, Texas, shared his week of development in the company of executives from the United Kingdom, India, Saudi Arabia, Belgium and the Ukraine. (more...) (PDF, 240 KB)
Leadership Development Program
Denmark-based manager, Søren Jensen sets the bar high for himself - to become a world-class coach for his organization.
Søren Brogaard Jensen first encountered CCL's approach to coaching while attending the Leadership Development Program (LDP)® in Brussels in 2004. "It inspired me," said Jensen, director of engineering and software product management for American Power Conversion Corp. (APC) in Denmark. Setting a goal of becoming a "world-class coach" for people in his organisation, one of the next steps he took was returning to Brussels for the Coaching for Development programme. (more...) (PDF, 512 KB)
Nokia's Heli Helanummi-Cole characterizes her CCL-Europe experience as "diverse, fascinating and good fun."
Based in the U.K., Heli Helanummi-Cole of Nokia spends her workdays immersed in the luxury mobile phone industry, laser-focused on the selling of her company's innovative and exclusive Vertu brand of personal communications products. "We have six different sales teams around the globe and I consult with them pretty much on a daily basis, looking at how we're going to sell, what we're going to sell, and how much," she said. (more...) (PDF, 367 KB)
