Training and Skills Development
One of the main challenges that businesses face is their ability to develop and adapt the skills sets of their teams so that theirs can keep up to speed with changes in client and market requirements. Supplier Management and Supply Chain are two of the most rapidly evolving functions in today’s business, but also two of the most significant value contributors.
Big Fish assists clients with state of the art skills development programs for entire organizations, specific groups or individuals by allowing them to systematically increase the skills level of their teams and organization using a customized, proprietary approach.
Based on an analysis of a significant number of leading Purchasing Professional Organizations we have developed a Purchasing Skills Reference Ladder to significantly improve the skills of your teams
- Hard Skills : Supplier Management or Supply Chain Management expertise and technical knowledge
- Soft Skills : Leadership, Organizational skills, team effectiveness
The Big Fish Approach to Successful Training
- In view of your medium term business and organizational targets, we define what your team or team members should improve in order to help them achieve those goals
- We then build a customized training program, based on a combination of best practices, our Supplier Management or Supply Chain expertise, our own pedagogical tools and a link to the concrete situation of your team/team members.
- We deliver all skills development programs with our own resources anywhere in the world. All of our trainers/coaches are senior Purchasing/Supply Chain and/or HR professionals with many years of experience.
- Our programs are based on a combination of hard skills and soft skills. They are always interactive and composed of competitive and collaborative games, case studies, role–plays and presentation/debriefing sessions.
- In conjunction with global and local academic partners we offer the possibility to deliver standardized certified training courses ranging from one day sessions to entire master programs for Purchasing and Supply Chain.
Big Fish Transformation Support
Some of our clients ask us to accompany them in radical team and culture transformation programs. Big Fish develops the entire andragogic support to speed up and increase the success rate of the transformation initiative:
- Special seminars to sensibilize the upper executives to the transformation challenges and methods
- Training of both client and supplier teams to enhance the effectiveness of the "Extended Enterprise"
- Large team meeting organization and support based on the "Supplier Management Leadership" concept
- Supplier convention animations