Financial Services The Client AXA Group is a world leader in financial protection. Fifty million individuals and businesses have placed their trust in AXA to: AXA has operations in Western Europe, North America and Asia Pacific. 112,000 employees and exclusive sales associates around the world are dedicated to deliver AXA clients with the solutions and services they need and expect. Background With a 20 year history of success, primarily based on acquisitive growth, the AXA Group realised that their next challenge was to demonstrate equal capacity for organic growth to enable them to meet their ‘Ambition 2012’ targets. One of the keys to building a high performance organisation is AXA’s ability to attract, retain, develop and engage the best talent in the industry. The integration and engagement of experienced new managers continues to be critical as they are expected to achieve full performance in a short period of time. External studies had shown that this population were particularly vulnerable to integration failure and attrition, but that targeted on-boarding could increase speed to performance and drive retention.  The challenge
AXA asked The Odyssey Group to create a global programme for new and recent recruits to the top 1000 of the AXA Global Management population. The key objectives to be met were: To accelerate participants’ time to full performance and lay the foundation for their longer term career success To build alignment to AXA’s Ambition 2012 strategy and objectives and its translation into strategic priorities To increase engagement and sense of belonging to AXA
The solution The Odyssey Group designed, developed and implemented an innovative, high impact and rigorously integrated on-boarding programme for AXA which also included the development and delivery of sessions for AXA senior manager co-facilitators. The learning experience for newly recruited leaders covered: Business knowledge Understanding of Group vision and strategy Strategic focus Creativity, innovation and change Management and leadership Global mindset and networking Continuous learning and self-management
The programme used a combination of learning approaches encompassing the very best of traditional development experiences with cutting edge theory and development. Feedback and anecdotal results from AXA have participants reporting much more engagement with, and understanding of, the Ambition 2012 strategy and a decrease in the time it took them to consider themselves to be fully operational.  Sample participant feedback:
“An excellent week. Good chance to learn more about Ambition 2012 and how I can start to lead this in my part of the world.” “Valuable programme with a wonderful opportunity to meet with colleagues and to learn and exchange ideas. Very practical information that we can apply back in our businesses.” “Very interesting for new managers and leaders in the Group. It is also a powerful motivation for us.” “Overall learned a lot. Believe that the objectives are well and truly met.”
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