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“learning through experience”


  Training & Development in
Leadership & Management Skills




           March 2009
Index
•          Who we are

•          Our Principles & Values

•          Our Objectives

•          What We Do & How – Training & Development in
           Management Skills


•          Innovation
    I.         Observatory
    II.        E-learning & The INFOVA Certification Academy
    III.       Automotive
    IV.        Infova Speakers
    V.         Dunlop & Brown
    VI.        Infova Adventure Experience

•          Management Team

•          Our Customers

•          Contact Details




                                                               2
Who we are
•   We are a company dedicated to the training and development of
    leaders, managers and executives who work primarily in medium to
    large sized companies in Spain and around the world.

•   Founded in 1997, INFOVA has trained over 100,000 professionals from
    a wide range of companies and industries.

•   We are currently 33 full-time professionals with a great variety of
    professional, academic and business experience. We can provide
    training in English, Spanish, French, Italian and German.

•   We are based in Madrid, Spain. Our central offices are in Las Matas
    (Madrid) and we have an exclusive training centre (La Arena) in a
    wholly-owned 35 hectare estate near Segovia and Avila, 1 hour north of
    Madrid. The centre is fully equipped for indoor and outdoor training and
    can accommodate over 30 people with full board and lodging in an
    intimate environment of outstanding natural beauty.

•   We believe strongly in learning by doing, and our focus is primarily on
    management skills:
     – Leadership and managing people
     – High performance teams
     – Effective communication & influence
     – Managing change, innovation and creativity
     – Negotiating and selling skills
     – Team and project management
     – Crisis Management and leading in times of adversity




                   INFOVA’S exclusive High Performance Training Centre

                                                                              3
Our Principles & Values
We believe that

•   Professional and personal development go hand-in-hand

•   For professional training to be really useful and have the necessary
    impact, it must be based on clear principles and values.

•   A learning and training method should be based on generating concrete
    experiences for each participant.

•   Our methodology should be eclectic and focussed on generating impact
    and change.

•   That training is a continuous process which requires commitment,
    measurement and ongoing development




     Our Key Principles                 Our Key Values

           Personal Choice              Commitment
           Responsibility               Daring
           Excellence                   Enthusiasm
           Service                      Customer Focus
           Respect                      Caring for others




                                                                           4
Our Objectives
Our objectives are to

•   Provide tools which enable a change in behaviours

•   Provide information and observations so that participants can decide
    which of those are useful to them, and which are not.

•   Allow participants to reach their own conclusions and acceptance of
    those conclusions

•   Generate concrete experiences for participants so that they can make
    their behavioural decisions based on reality and on a heightened
    awareness of their choices.

•   Understand training as a process, not as an isolated event, so that
    through repetition, managers and directors can integrate and identify
    with the essential principles of leadership.

•   Provide continuous support in order to stimulate and put into practise
    the acquired techniques and behaviours.

•   Provide a training process that is tailored to the culture of the
    participants and their company/organization.




                                                                             5
What We Do and How
    Training & Development of Management Skills




•   From the outset INFOVA has always believed in “learning through
    experience”. Putting participants in environments and situations which
    require a high level of personal and emotional involvement, is in our
    experience, the best way to produce real learning and profound
    changes in individual behaviours.

•   We do this primarily by combining outdoor experiential activities with
    indoor class-room training and on-line courses.

•   Theoretical and conceptual aspects can be prepared prior to the course
    through on-line work, addressed more directly in class-room activities
    and put into practise through experiential exercises, both indoor and
    outdoor.

•   Post-course follow-ups and action plans can be addressed through a
    combination of on-line work and/or physical or telephone based
    coaching. The idea being to consolidate course learnings, and make
    sure they are applied to both professional and personal environments.

•   By using this “blended learning” methodology, participants learn by
    doing, take risks and make mistakes, reflect on them, observe and
    question their beliefs and attitudes. Participants can, therefore, review
    their habits and models of conduct, and as a result experiment with
    change and uncertainty.

•   Infova was born of a desire to innovate and learn from our
    surroundings. Infova R&D is therefore part of the company DNA, and
    our newer related businesses & activities are testimony to this. (See
    next page).




                                                                             6
Innovation (I)
     Infova´s core business is training & development for business
     executives, managers and directors.

     As part of our process of innovation and customer focus, we have
     developed several related activities and tools which are designed to
     support the training & development process and services we provide
     our customers.

     Namely:

1.   INFOVA Observatory (Observatory of Organizational Behaviours)
     Principle objectives are

     –    To acquire new knowledge of organizational behaviours, working
          practises and leadership characteristics in Spain and put them at
          the disposal of the business community and the public in general.

     –    Through annual surveys, interviews and forums, the Observatory
          is in the process of establishing a series of indices of behaviours,
          attitudes and opinions in order to draw conclusions on the working
          habits and leadership practises of professionals and executives in
          Spain.

     –    To research and analyse the current habits, behaviours and
          beliefs of professionals and executives in the Spanish work
          environment. As a result of this research, develop new and
          relevant training tools and methods for managing change, and
          ensure that they are aligned with the actual needs of our clients.




                                                                            7
Innovation (II)
2.   INFOVA E-learning & Academies

     As part of our blended learning approach, Infova invested early on in on-
     line courses and academies, fully integrated into the overall training
     process. INFOVA provides the following on-line tools:

     •    In-company e-Learning Academies
          These academies allow company employees and course
          participants to access relevant information, theoretical concepts and
          course manuals. It also allows them to do on-line courses and/or
          knowledge or competency tests.

     •    The INFOVA Certification Academy
          We have recently developed an on-line certification capability, which
          is currently being used by various multinationals in over 30
          countries and 27 languages.
          This on-line tool allows companies to
            • Measure and monitor competencies, skills and knowledge
                across functions, organizational levels and geographic
                regions,
            • As a result, respond more accurately and efficiently to training
                needs,
            • Standardize criteria for competencies, knowledge and skills,
                and,
            • Provide an additional process for motivation, compensation
                and reward

          For example we have developed a bespoke global Sales
          Certification Academy, currently being used by a global tyre
          manufacturer in Europe, Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa.
          The bespoke on-line Sales Academy for Goodyear EMEA has recently won the
          Expansión award in Spain for Innovation in Human Resources.




                                                                             8
Innovation (III)

2.   INFOVA Automotive

•    INFOVA “Automoción” is a distinct unit within Infova, fully dedicated to
     the planning, creation and execution of in-company training for
     automotive manufacturers and importers/distributors on a local as well
     as international basis.

•    Its success has been the result of a combined methodology of on-line,
     outdoor and indoor training focussed on the development of specific
     commercial, sales and after-sales skills and competencies, including
     the launching of new models and products.

•    The principal value offered to this client-base is sector experience (all
     members of this team have worked or competed in the automotive
     sector), accessibility, flexibility and their ability to provide a responsive
     and integrated service.




                                                                                 9
Innovation (IV)
4.   INFOVA Speakers

•    Infova Speakers offers our customers a conference & speaker service
     with a difference.

•    The primary difference is that all our speakers and conferences are
     chosen with specific formative principles and values in mind.

•    All conferences are introduced and facilitated by an Infova trainer who,
     before the beginning of the conference, will share a series of thought
     processes with the audience, and after the conference will facilitate and
     moderate the discussion making sure that learnings are extrapolated
     and linked to our professional and work environment, as well as our
     day-to-day lives.

•    Some of the key objectives & principles developed in our conferences
     are*:
      – Personal choice
      – Responsibility
      – Double creation (thought to action)
      – Excellence
      – Daring
      – Creativity

•    A range of Speakers from a wide variety of backgrounds and pursuits,
     (including explorers, mountaineers, psychologists, motivational
     speakers and experts from the world of music or motor-racing) but
     whose story is always relevant to corporate and organizational realities
     and the working lives of professionals and executives.

     * Some of the objectives of these conferences include explaining and linking the conference to
     certain typical thought models and processes, e.g.
       –     Think - feel - act
       –     Circles of influence and preoccupation
       –     Understanding the benefit s for individuals to choose the environments that motivate them
             (principle of personal choice)
       –     The awakening or realization that it is possible to feel good about our environment.

                                                                                                    10
Innovation (V)
5.   Dunlop & Brown - INFOVA

•    Dunlop & Brown is a UK company who works with senior management
     teams with companies all over Europe. Dunlop & Brown and INFOVA
     have a Joint Venture in Spain.
•    Together we offer an original and bespoke service to senior
     management teams, focussed on diagnosing, designing, organizing
     and facilitating critical team meetings and projects.
•    Our primary objective is to make critical team meetings more
     productive and decisive, and to help senior managers develop or
     maintain their teams at high levels of performance.
•    In current market conditions, we believe this can be a particularly
     helpful tool for senior management to ensure adequate levels of
     motivation, productivity and focus.

•    The key elements we use to do this are
           •   Diagnosis of the main issues and needs within the team
               /project through the use of confidential online surveys or
               interviews
           •   Confirmation of key objectives for the meeting,
           •   The use and selection of “Inspired Guests”: internal or
               external experts who will be present at the meeting and can
               help the team both from a knowledge, experience and / or
               competency perspective, applied directly to the project or
               objectives of the meeting,
           •   The structuring and facilitation of the working sessions and
               other activities designed to improve team communication
               and effectiveness,
           •   The use and selection of unusual, non-routine and intimate
               environments, outside the place of work, designed to
               generate news ways of thinking and communicating,
           •   Professional hosting and facilitation of the meeting,
           •   Post-event follow-ups to help the realization of decisions
               made and action plans developed at the meeting.

•    For more information please consult the INFOVA website.

                                                                        11
Innovation (VI)
6.   INFOVA Snow & Mountain Adventure Experience

•    Based on INFOVA’s belief in learning through experience, this form of
     training is designed for executives and their teams to use adventure as
     a vehicle for learning and obtaining information that will help them in
     their daily lives as individuals, professionals and members of a team.

•    The objective is to create, within a safe environment, the necessary
     conditions for an intense experience and reflection on the following:

      –   How we work together
      –   What type of team we are
      –   What and how we would need to change in order to reach high
          performance
      –   How we manage our ambition to achieve results
      –   How we manage personal achievement
      –   What price we are prepared to pay to achieve our goals
      –   How we resolve conflicts
      –   What sort of relationships we have between team members
      –   How we plan and allocate resources

     And a long list of other organizational processes and functions which
     are easy to experiment with and observe.

•    In this type of environment, experiences, reflections and conclusions
     are difficult to forget. In these types of activities everything is real:
     previous training & preparation of the team, planning the rescue of an
     avalanche victim or injured mountaineers, putting the plan into action,
     and corrective actions in the face of difficulties.

•    The experience results in conclusions on how to live success and
     failure, on how to resolve problems, the generation of viable
     alternatives and decision-making.



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Management Team
Managing Director:                        Gonzalo Martínez de Miguel

Director of Training:                     Ramón Martínez

Commercial Director:                      François Peréz Ayrault

Director INFOVA Automotive                Oscar Fuertes

Managing Partner Dunlop & Brown
& Director New Business Development       Robert Griffiths

Director of Observatory                   Iñaki de Miguel

Director of R&D:                          Alejandro Busto

Human Resources Director                  Irene Gómez

Manager INFOVA Adventure                  Felipe Ynzenga
Experience

Manager INFOVA Speakers                   Paula Roquero

Manager e-Learning                        Ana Ibañez

Project Manager Certifications            Olmo Algarra

Marketing Manager                         Monica Sánchez

        Professional Trainers:        Automotive:
        Alicia Aragón                 Álvaro Arcenegui
        Alejandro Busto               Victor Felipe
        Marta Fuertes                 Oscar Fuertes
        Irene Gómez
        Ricardo Gómez
        Robert Griffiths
        Gonzalo Martínez de Miguel
                                                                   13
        Ramón Martínez
Our Customers




                14
Contact Details

  INFOVA S.L.
  c/ Rosa de Lima, 1 Bis
  Edifico Alba, Oficina 212
  28290 Las Matas
  Madrid
  Spain


  Tel: 91.636.9716
  Email: infova@infova.es
  Website: www.infova.es




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INFOVA Summary 09

  • 1. “learning through experience” Training & Development in Leadership & Management Skills March 2009
  • 2. Index • Who we are • Our Principles & Values • Our Objectives • What We Do & How – Training & Development in Management Skills • Innovation I. Observatory II. E-learning & The INFOVA Certification Academy III. Automotive IV. Infova Speakers V. Dunlop & Brown VI. Infova Adventure Experience • Management Team • Our Customers • Contact Details 2
  • 3. Who we are • We are a company dedicated to the training and development of leaders, managers and executives who work primarily in medium to large sized companies in Spain and around the world. • Founded in 1997, INFOVA has trained over 100,000 professionals from a wide range of companies and industries. • We are currently 33 full-time professionals with a great variety of professional, academic and business experience. We can provide training in English, Spanish, French, Italian and German. • We are based in Madrid, Spain. Our central offices are in Las Matas (Madrid) and we have an exclusive training centre (La Arena) in a wholly-owned 35 hectare estate near Segovia and Avila, 1 hour north of Madrid. The centre is fully equipped for indoor and outdoor training and can accommodate over 30 people with full board and lodging in an intimate environment of outstanding natural beauty. • We believe strongly in learning by doing, and our focus is primarily on management skills: – Leadership and managing people – High performance teams – Effective communication & influence – Managing change, innovation and creativity – Negotiating and selling skills – Team and project management – Crisis Management and leading in times of adversity INFOVA’S exclusive High Performance Training Centre 3
  • 4. Our Principles & Values We believe that • Professional and personal development go hand-in-hand • For professional training to be really useful and have the necessary impact, it must be based on clear principles and values. • A learning and training method should be based on generating concrete experiences for each participant. • Our methodology should be eclectic and focussed on generating impact and change. • That training is a continuous process which requires commitment, measurement and ongoing development Our Key Principles Our Key Values Personal Choice Commitment Responsibility Daring Excellence Enthusiasm Service Customer Focus Respect Caring for others 4
  • 5. Our Objectives Our objectives are to • Provide tools which enable a change in behaviours • Provide information and observations so that participants can decide which of those are useful to them, and which are not. • Allow participants to reach their own conclusions and acceptance of those conclusions • Generate concrete experiences for participants so that they can make their behavioural decisions based on reality and on a heightened awareness of their choices. • Understand training as a process, not as an isolated event, so that through repetition, managers and directors can integrate and identify with the essential principles of leadership. • Provide continuous support in order to stimulate and put into practise the acquired techniques and behaviours. • Provide a training process that is tailored to the culture of the participants and their company/organization. 5
  • 6. What We Do and How Training & Development of Management Skills • From the outset INFOVA has always believed in “learning through experience”. Putting participants in environments and situations which require a high level of personal and emotional involvement, is in our experience, the best way to produce real learning and profound changes in individual behaviours. • We do this primarily by combining outdoor experiential activities with indoor class-room training and on-line courses. • Theoretical and conceptual aspects can be prepared prior to the course through on-line work, addressed more directly in class-room activities and put into practise through experiential exercises, both indoor and outdoor. • Post-course follow-ups and action plans can be addressed through a combination of on-line work and/or physical or telephone based coaching. The idea being to consolidate course learnings, and make sure they are applied to both professional and personal environments. • By using this “blended learning” methodology, participants learn by doing, take risks and make mistakes, reflect on them, observe and question their beliefs and attitudes. Participants can, therefore, review their habits and models of conduct, and as a result experiment with change and uncertainty. • Infova was born of a desire to innovate and learn from our surroundings. Infova R&D is therefore part of the company DNA, and our newer related businesses & activities are testimony to this. (See next page). 6
  • 7. Innovation (I) Infova´s core business is training & development for business executives, managers and directors. As part of our process of innovation and customer focus, we have developed several related activities and tools which are designed to support the training & development process and services we provide our customers. Namely: 1. INFOVA Observatory (Observatory of Organizational Behaviours) Principle objectives are – To acquire new knowledge of organizational behaviours, working practises and leadership characteristics in Spain and put them at the disposal of the business community and the public in general. – Through annual surveys, interviews and forums, the Observatory is in the process of establishing a series of indices of behaviours, attitudes and opinions in order to draw conclusions on the working habits and leadership practises of professionals and executives in Spain. – To research and analyse the current habits, behaviours and beliefs of professionals and executives in the Spanish work environment. As a result of this research, develop new and relevant training tools and methods for managing change, and ensure that they are aligned with the actual needs of our clients. 7
  • 8. Innovation (II) 2. INFOVA E-learning & Academies As part of our blended learning approach, Infova invested early on in on- line courses and academies, fully integrated into the overall training process. INFOVA provides the following on-line tools: • In-company e-Learning Academies These academies allow company employees and course participants to access relevant information, theoretical concepts and course manuals. It also allows them to do on-line courses and/or knowledge or competency tests. • The INFOVA Certification Academy We have recently developed an on-line certification capability, which is currently being used by various multinationals in over 30 countries and 27 languages. This on-line tool allows companies to • Measure and monitor competencies, skills and knowledge across functions, organizational levels and geographic regions, • As a result, respond more accurately and efficiently to training needs, • Standardize criteria for competencies, knowledge and skills, and, • Provide an additional process for motivation, compensation and reward For example we have developed a bespoke global Sales Certification Academy, currently being used by a global tyre manufacturer in Europe, Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa. The bespoke on-line Sales Academy for Goodyear EMEA has recently won the Expansión award in Spain for Innovation in Human Resources. 8
  • 9. Innovation (III) 2. INFOVA Automotive • INFOVA “Automoción” is a distinct unit within Infova, fully dedicated to the planning, creation and execution of in-company training for automotive manufacturers and importers/distributors on a local as well as international basis. • Its success has been the result of a combined methodology of on-line, outdoor and indoor training focussed on the development of specific commercial, sales and after-sales skills and competencies, including the launching of new models and products. • The principal value offered to this client-base is sector experience (all members of this team have worked or competed in the automotive sector), accessibility, flexibility and their ability to provide a responsive and integrated service. 9
  • 10. Innovation (IV) 4. INFOVA Speakers • Infova Speakers offers our customers a conference & speaker service with a difference. • The primary difference is that all our speakers and conferences are chosen with specific formative principles and values in mind. • All conferences are introduced and facilitated by an Infova trainer who, before the beginning of the conference, will share a series of thought processes with the audience, and after the conference will facilitate and moderate the discussion making sure that learnings are extrapolated and linked to our professional and work environment, as well as our day-to-day lives. • Some of the key objectives & principles developed in our conferences are*: – Personal choice – Responsibility – Double creation (thought to action) – Excellence – Daring – Creativity • A range of Speakers from a wide variety of backgrounds and pursuits, (including explorers, mountaineers, psychologists, motivational speakers and experts from the world of music or motor-racing) but whose story is always relevant to corporate and organizational realities and the working lives of professionals and executives. * Some of the objectives of these conferences include explaining and linking the conference to certain typical thought models and processes, e.g. – Think - feel - act – Circles of influence and preoccupation – Understanding the benefit s for individuals to choose the environments that motivate them (principle of personal choice) – The awakening or realization that it is possible to feel good about our environment. 10
  • 11. Innovation (V) 5. Dunlop & Brown - INFOVA • Dunlop & Brown is a UK company who works with senior management teams with companies all over Europe. Dunlop & Brown and INFOVA have a Joint Venture in Spain. • Together we offer an original and bespoke service to senior management teams, focussed on diagnosing, designing, organizing and facilitating critical team meetings and projects. • Our primary objective is to make critical team meetings more productive and decisive, and to help senior managers develop or maintain their teams at high levels of performance. • In current market conditions, we believe this can be a particularly helpful tool for senior management to ensure adequate levels of motivation, productivity and focus. • The key elements we use to do this are • Diagnosis of the main issues and needs within the team /project through the use of confidential online surveys or interviews • Confirmation of key objectives for the meeting, • The use and selection of “Inspired Guests”: internal or external experts who will be present at the meeting and can help the team both from a knowledge, experience and / or competency perspective, applied directly to the project or objectives of the meeting, • The structuring and facilitation of the working sessions and other activities designed to improve team communication and effectiveness, • The use and selection of unusual, non-routine and intimate environments, outside the place of work, designed to generate news ways of thinking and communicating, • Professional hosting and facilitation of the meeting, • Post-event follow-ups to help the realization of decisions made and action plans developed at the meeting. • For more information please consult the INFOVA website. 11
  • 12. Innovation (VI) 6. INFOVA Snow & Mountain Adventure Experience • Based on INFOVA’s belief in learning through experience, this form of training is designed for executives and their teams to use adventure as a vehicle for learning and obtaining information that will help them in their daily lives as individuals, professionals and members of a team. • The objective is to create, within a safe environment, the necessary conditions for an intense experience and reflection on the following: – How we work together – What type of team we are – What and how we would need to change in order to reach high performance – How we manage our ambition to achieve results – How we manage personal achievement – What price we are prepared to pay to achieve our goals – How we resolve conflicts – What sort of relationships we have between team members – How we plan and allocate resources And a long list of other organizational processes and functions which are easy to experiment with and observe. • In this type of environment, experiences, reflections and conclusions are difficult to forget. In these types of activities everything is real: previous training & preparation of the team, planning the rescue of an avalanche victim or injured mountaineers, putting the plan into action, and corrective actions in the face of difficulties. • The experience results in conclusions on how to live success and failure, on how to resolve problems, the generation of viable alternatives and decision-making. 12
  • 13. Management Team Managing Director: Gonzalo Martínez de Miguel Director of Training: Ramón Martínez Commercial Director: François Peréz Ayrault Director INFOVA Automotive Oscar Fuertes Managing Partner Dunlop & Brown & Director New Business Development Robert Griffiths Director of Observatory Iñaki de Miguel Director of R&D: Alejandro Busto Human Resources Director Irene Gómez Manager INFOVA Adventure Felipe Ynzenga Experience Manager INFOVA Speakers Paula Roquero Manager e-Learning Ana Ibañez Project Manager Certifications Olmo Algarra Marketing Manager Monica Sánchez Professional Trainers: Automotive: Alicia Aragón Álvaro Arcenegui Alejandro Busto Victor Felipe Marta Fuertes Oscar Fuertes Irene Gómez Ricardo Gómez Robert Griffiths Gonzalo Martínez de Miguel 13 Ramón Martínez
  • 15. Contact Details INFOVA S.L. c/ Rosa de Lima, 1 Bis Edifico Alba, Oficina 212 28290 Las Matas Madrid Spain Tel: 91.636.9716 Email: infova@infova.es Website: www.infova.es 15