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Each area of the business develops its own training programmes designed to allow employees to integrate into and keep pace with the development of its marketing, technical, technological and economic environment. Significant efforts are made every year to develop the skills of group employees. In France, for example, an average of €1,137 was spent on every employee who received training in 2008.
But that's not all…
In a world that is changing all the time, everything now points to the fact that changes in direction have a positive impact, and a willingness to take risks is one of the group's core values.
The creativity that this generates is one of the cornerstones of our shared culture: a culture that is built on responsibility, exchanging ideas and decentralization, and that relies on networks of skills and the sharing of experiences.

Our managers are at the heart of these challenges.

That is why we have developed a space for them at the heart of the group where they can be unconstrained, a space that supports skills development, encourages talented people to move around, and prompts them to share and broaden their knowledge through training programmes with a multidisciplinary focus that supports change: the MEDIA CAMPUS.

MEDIA CAMPUS programmes are designed to support our managers and help them develop. Designed to provide an enjoyable, interactive learning experience and based on practices and ideas from all areas of management, these programmes are led by external consultants, in particular by teaching staff from the Paris-Dauphine University, and by representatives from the various group divisions, who bring their experience and know-how to bear.

Taking up the challenges of tomorrow is about allowing oneself to act in ways that may sometimes seem brash or even iconoclastic: that's what entrepreneurship is all about. What's really at stake in our training programmes is clearing the way for talented staff by providing a space for sharing ideas and meeting other people.

Mobility, the passport to the future

The constantly changing context in which the Lagardère group is developing in all its areas of activity and the growth of its subsidiaries outside France mean that mobility is an even more strategic issue than it was in the past. Mobility supports change and helps ensure that our values of commitment, innovation and team spirit are disseminated and actively accepted.

For all of us, it contributes to developing skills and know-how, increases synergies, brings shared enthusiasms together, encourages initiative and curiosity and, of course, the development of oneself and others.

No company could anticipate market changes and form alliances and partnerships if it were not able to count on teams that were expert in their fields but open and receptive to different cultures and the reciprocal challenges they bring.

Mobility allows all the companies in the group to discover new insights into their practices and to be more responsive in the face of changes in their activities and business by equipping themselves with new skills.

But mobility for its own sake is not part of our philosophy. It's an individual matter for each of our employees, and forms a natural part of their career progression. Curiosity and motivation are the drivers of success and fulfilment.

It is the role of the group and the companies that comprise it to create the most dynamic and favourable environment it can so as to encourage this personal process.