Sika Business School
Our Strategy
The Sika Business School – the training brand of Sika - is dedicated to the performance of Sika staff and of customers. Our ambition is to enable individuals and teams to perform: by transforming information into new knowledge and to get aligned with the strategic development of Sika. Three components are prioritized:
- Sika Managers, Specialists end Sika Group Management are personally involved in the trainings. This guarantees a perfect match with strategic parameters.
- Regional challenges and local needs are considered by offering a substantial number of programs regionally and by supporting local organizations to put into practice the gained knowledge in the specific business environment. This ensures a maximum of impact – globally for the whole Sika organization as well as regionally and locally.
- Participants of the programs hail from different walks of life, and of course from different Business Units, Functional Units, Companies and countries. This facilitates networking as well as project work across functional boundaries.
Our Customers
The Sika Business Schools offers it’s programs, seminars and workshops to Sika staff, and to external customers and business partners.
The pillars of our training program
- Development Sika Sales Force
Supporting the implementation of Sika’s focused growth strategy to a Sales Professional’s work environment one of the core competence. - Management Development
Further target groups encompass Managers who demonstrate the requisite leadership skills and competencies that drive superior performance in support of the Sika culture. - Train-the-trainer approach
Another crucial structural feature of the Sika Business School is the systematic “Train-the Trainer” approach. The Sika Business Schools offers to employees and to external customers techniques how to quickly convey expertise of experts in Sika’s Business Units. That includes standards on how to develop and conduct trainings. - Technical Trainings
Four Sika Academies, Contractors Academy, Concrete Academy, Industry Academy and Procurement Academy, transfer knowledge regarding technical information. The customer benefits from hands-on knowledge and from practical and theoretical workshops based on customer cases. - E-Learning / Individual Learning
All employees may get to know the Sika World on an interactive basis via Intranet.
Dedicated to your performance
Sika Business School strives for transforming information, knowledge, ideas and experience into drivers for your performance and personality, and therefore for the growth of Sika within its businesses. Sika - that’s us. The Sika Business School focuses intensely on making the perfect combination of delivering valuable programs for your career and, at the end of the day for continuously managing customer experience.
In 2010 , Sika spent a total of around CHF 7.7 million (2009: CHF 6.6 million) on employee development. This figure includes special, decentralized courses in the Regions and countries together with global management development and sales training programs.