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Missions
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Support for spouses
BPI Suisse was selected by a major international group from the food industry which wished to support the relocation of 200 British workers in Switzerland. BPI has set up a support service for spouses, the aim of which is to support both the people who wish to integrate into the country's business life and those who need to find new paths to facilitate social and cultural integration.
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Support for internal and external mobility
BPI supported a large French industrial concern for the implementation of a reorganization operation aimed at stepping up industrial performance and enhancing the quality of customer service. Some 700 people were supported on 69 sites in one year. BPI was involved in the design, implementation and management of the internal and external mobility scheme. BPI trained HR teams and prepared managers in "announcement interviews" and team management in this sensitive environment.
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GPEC going by the name of "HR Development" project
A large company from the pharmaceutical industry chose BPI to help design and implement its GPEC scheme (Forward Management of Employment & Skills or FMES) and restore dialogue with the trade union organizations. This initial engagement has enabled the Vice-President of HR to introduce and roll-out an "HR Development" project in keeping with the company's strategic plan.
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Expansion time in Morocco
BPI Morocco has been engaged by the BMCE Academy, the BMCE Group's corporate university - BMCE being the country's second largest private banking group with 3,500 employees and operations in 22 countries - to devise a managerial development program designed for branch and client service managers. As the group's network continues to report high growth in Morocco and pursue sustained international business and grand ambitions in Africa, the number of new branch openings has mushroomed. Hence the need to speed up the identification and integration of managers to assure development. The program tagged "Challenge" is based on business games designed especially for BMCE and will be deployed by way of a 2-day module at the end of the curriculum introduced by the Academy.
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Employment, equality of opportunity and integration
Bernard Brunhes International has won a new contract for the European Commission - Employment Division - for the organization of seminars in member states on the themes of employment, equality of opportunity and integration. BBI is leading the consortium involved and the deal is worth €5 million.
For the record, BBI is currently working with the European Commission on MISSOC, an information system managing social protection and welfare for EU countries.
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Support for the implementation of a voluntary leaving scheme
The merger of two companies in the Internet field led to their managers implementing a voluntary leaving agreement in the framework of their FMES scheme.
The two company's managers quite naturally turned to BPI to handle the project's operational implementation. During an earlier project, they appreciated our roll-out capacities and responsiveness to their requirements in terms of timetable and the need to legally secure people leaving the company.
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Almost 80% of former job-seekers redeployed on the leather industry platform in Romans
The leather industry career conversion platform in the town of Romans-sur-Isère, launched in October 2005 to help redeploy employees made redundant by Kélian and Jourdan, is posting positive results with more than 75% of the 402 people now redeployed elsewhere.
187 companies responded positively to the requests put out by BPI and employed one or more people who were being supported by the scheme.
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BPI Morocco partnering the COSUMAR business project
On Saturday, December 1st in Casablanca, BPI Morocco facilitated the COSUMAR Executives Convention. It was the first time that this sugar company, a subsidiary of the ONA Group, had assembled its 250 managers since the 2005 take-over of all Morocco's sugar concerns. On the occasion of this convention, managers and leaders had the opportunity to use the COSUMAR Right Cards to share and fine-tune the corporate project designed to organize and develop the Moroccan sugar industry.
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Evénements
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BPI moves into the US market
BPI has gained control of SSP - now known as BPI US Partners - headquartered in Chicago Illinois and also operating in two other States, Missouri and Wisconsin.
BPI US Partners employs 80 consultants and is specialized in the management of executive careers, individual coaching and recruitment. This friendly take-over transaction has enabled BPI to expand its operations in the United States, a market where it already does business through the Ol Partners Inc. network, for which BPI is the exclusive partner in Europe.
Juan-Luis Goujon has quit his post as Chairman of BPI Spain to take up his new position of BPI US Partners Chief Executive Officer.
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An international survey: employees assess their manager
An international study has been conducted by BPI in partnership with BVA. Some 5,500 employees were questioned in 10 different countries between the 18th and 25th of October, 2007 and gave assessments that were sometimes as harsh as they were surprising. For instance, 12% of Italian employees feel that their manager knows nothing or little of the directions in which their company is headed, while 37% of Brits think that their direct manager does not support these directions. 68% of British employees enjoy friendly relations with their direct manager, a figure that drops to only 27% in France...
You will find many other results on our website www.groupe-bpi.com
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Drei Lander Initiative: unique positioning in the consulting field
BPI is mutualizing skills over a cross-border region to win new markets as Eastern France, Switzerland and Germany now engage in joint missions.
Initial results are good, with a number of contracts now tied up, including the Public Service Delegation in the region of Mulhouse (France), where 1,000 jobs have been created with support from Swiss and German investors, among others. Growth lines cover territorial service offers, assessment and recruitment and managerial support. A major event will be a "client day" next April 3, conducted simultaneously in France, Switzerland and Germany.
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BPI Romania at the Franco-Romanian Business Forum
Invited by the Franco-Romanian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, BPI attended the Franco-Romanian Business Forum held in Ploiesti on November 13, 2007 and presented a snapshot of the job market in a region which, from an economic viewpoint, is one of Europe's most buoyant.
The Forum was also attended by local authorities, the French Embassy's economic mission and a number of opinion leaders from the French-speaking business community and French company managers and investors.
The presentation from BPI Romania focused on the skills that companies are looking for locally and the difficulties in attracting and retaining the available work force. BPI's local experience in recruitment, personnel assessment and the deployment and redeployment of people looking for work gave added substance to a factual overview which was very much appreciated by all the participants.
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Employees return to work to face an Autumn of reform
The Public Service Continuity Act, the Work Overtime Act, reform of labour laws and trade union representativity and the merger between the country's two national employment authorities... The reforms announced by President Sarkozy in France are manifold and of great significance.
Such were the themes addressed by the 12th edition of the Employment Observatory, jointly organized by Bernard Brunhes Consultants - Groupe BPI, BVA and the news magazine L'Express. Opinion poll results were presented in October 2007.
For more details, visit www.brunhes.com
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Sharing ideas that work... A successful breakfast debating VAE
A special breakfast was organized on Thursday October 25th in support of the publication of Décryptage last June, explaining the latest addition to the French labour code, VAE (validation of work experience).
The question raised was how does a company make use of VAE to manage skills and recognize experience?
Bertrand Carré, HR Director with Coca Cola Enterprises, was the guest "witness".
The event attracted 49 guests (from the areas of HR and training) who followed the topics addressed with great interest.
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After October 25, 2006 in Italy, this was October 25, 2007 in Spain...
BPI chose Madrid to organize the 2nd conference on the assessment of HR practices in the banking sector. Some 60 guests, French and Spanish speakers, trade unionists and representatives from leading banks, appreciated the testimonials and exchange of views discussing geographic mobility, changes of function, talent for the future, the role of personnel representation and the link between HR management and business performance...
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European expertise serving employment
For the past several years, BPI has been supporting public-sector return-to-work processes in France, Spain, Switzerland and Italy. Last October 22 and 23, the first BPI European University was held on this specific theme. About forty consultants of all nationalities shared their thoughts to continue to grow efficiency in their nationwide engagements.
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Managing the return-to-work process in Europe: what new experience has been gained and with which marketing tools?
This was the theme of the European seminar organized by UNEDIC (national union for employment in industry and commerce) on the 29th and 30th of November last. After a full day devoted to the themes of "shared issues and common challenges", representatives from most public employment service offices in European countries exchanged views over "new experiences and good practices". BPI was an active participant in this seminar, the purpose of which was to look for greater efficiency in return-to-work measures. The introductory report written by Jacques Dahan placed emphasis on the changes now affecting public employment services across Europe.
J. Dahan (2007), "Efficient management of the return-to-work process: innovative experiences and practices that help the efficiency of public employment services in Europe", the introductory report to the European seminar of November 29 & 30, 2007, ASSEDIC, Bernard Brunhes Consultants - Groupe BPI
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After the successful FMES evenings at the end of 2006, BPI is launching the second season in December 2007
"Which conditions for the successful implementation of FMES agreements?"... This is the theme we will be proposing to our clients at FMES evenings organized for December 20 and January 8,15, 22 and 29. The program will include a study whose results will set multi-sector benchmark items for negotiated agreements, then the options taken by BPI for the successful roll-out of FMES, and finally a testimonial from an HR Director and client.
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Publications
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"Lève toi et travaille" (Take Up Thy Bed and Work), Eyrolles
by Jean-Michel Milon
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At a time when the pundits are applauding "The French Who Rise Early", BPI Consultant Jean-Michel Milon pokes fun at our national failings, portraying a daily routine where work is the be-all and end-all. We laugh with him at our crazy attitudes at work, our relations with shrinks, leaders and our lives...
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His is an amusing, caustic but always tender view of the people he meets in the work place every day.
His album of drawings has just been published by Eyrolles and is on sale in bookshops from November 29: relevant, funny and a great Xmas present.
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"Et leurs entreprises verront le jour" (And Their Businesses Will Arise), Autrement
by Bernard Brunhes & Jean-Michel Mestres
Bernard Brunhes, an acknowledged specialist in the art of industrial mediation, has in recent years embraced the cause of the creators of new businesses. Here, he gives some useful thoughts about creating a company, and thereby employment, explains the collective approach of his movement "France Initiative" and lays down ideas for future ways forward.
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Today, "France Initiative" federates some 250 "platforms" which, in a bid to aid budding entrepreneurs, assembles chambers of commerce and professions, companies and banks with the financial backing of territorial community institutions and the Caisse des Dépôts. It is a crucial partnership which helps to kick-start the financing of thousands of nascent companies out in the field and gives company creators or buyers that extra mile of support.
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Under some tough questioning, Bernard Brunhes specifically explains the action of these new "companions for company builders". It is also the opportunity for him to look back at his own career as a company manager. As a perfect connoisseur of social and corporate policies, he dwells on the value of the creation of jobs triggered by the boom in micro-companies, without concealing how much this owes to the pressure exerted by present-day circumstances. Here is a pragmatic man who invites the reader to commit whole-heartedly to a new momentum, which amongst other things is having a great effect on the unemployed by getting them back into a job.
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"Profession dirigeant" (Profession, Leader), Dunod
by Gérard Roth & Michal Kurtyka
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Written by two company men, this book deals with the essential components of the profession of leader: devising strategy, evolving and implementing this strategy through the existing managerial system and human resources, and embedding change in the long term. The book has a two-fold ambition, namely conceptual input and the providing of real tools. It develops original notions, such as resonance and dissonance in management, and thoughts about how organizations and the profession of manager are evolving.
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It is illustrated with examples and analysis grids taken from managerial practice.
This reference work, from which emerges the indispensable human dimension of management, is addressed to company leaders, consultants and people keen to improve their knowledge of the management of change and the profession of leader. It will also be of great interest to students and potential future managers.
The amusing drawings by Tomi Ungerer add a little fun to proceedings. Michal Kurtyka is the CE of BPI Poland.
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Esta Desabalada Carreira
by Gilberto Guimarães
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In this book, published in Brazil, Gilberto Guimarães, the CE of BPI Brazil, has assembled the knowledge he has accumulated during his years spent as a teacher, consultant and director of leading companies. He has set out to give everyone looking for personal and professional advancement the pieces of the puzzle they need to achieve success.
Reading this book will always provide you with some excellent advice or a good suggestion to cope with the many different situations you encounter day to day.
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