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Shaping talent for BUSINESS GROWTH
How the CBA sees shaping talent
What makes the CBA different?
The Corporate Business Academy has a very specific role within EADS: we contribute to the success of EADS by developing current Executives and pre-paring the future generation of Executives. The CBA also plays a key role in setting the standard for the European way of doing business…
The CBA reports to the Head of Group Human Resources. It is an international team of eight people, notably Program Managers and Program Coordinators, based in both Paris and Munich.
What are the key strengths of the CBA programs?
It is our role to design and deliver the best programs to develop EADS Executives and intensively prepare our future leaders. Two main programs prepare high potentials for the future: FAST and EXPAND. FAST is aimed at talented Managers or Senior Managers
who deliver outstanding performance and for whom specific build-up of managerial competencies would allow further developments. EXPAND is very much linked to the transition from a senior management position to becoming an Executive and is aimed at Executives who have just been promoted or Senior Managers who may be promoted
during the year ahead. The two programs are very different and complementary. One prepares for the other. Managers usually follow the EXPAND program 3 to 5 years after participating in FAST. Our three key programs for Executives are the HOT TOPICS, which involve short, intensive workshops for the Group’s 1000 Executives on the key subjects of the moment, the Top Executive Team meeting (TET MEETING), and the EXECUTIVE FORUMS where participants debate and work out strategic topics at Group level.
What is our strategic role within EADS?
The CBA is a tool serving the Group strategy. It provides a framework which allows the main strategic issues to be shared and communicated throughout the Group, both Top Down and Bottom Up, as information from participants often contributes constructively to Top Executives’ discussions and decision-making process. The CBA is a development department rather than a training school and is closely linked to strategy. It allows us to identify the burning issues of the future, by keeping an eye on early signs coming from within EADS or other Groups and educational partners, and assess how relevant they could become for us.
Finally, our role is also to support networking, sharing and cross-fertilization right across the Group.
Everything we do must be transversal, important to the Group as a whole.
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