Safran moves ahead of the field by becoming a “learning organisation”

One of the principal challenges for all firms is not only being able to react but also to plan ahead for increasingly rapid changes.

In-service training is still the best way of providing all employees with optimum skillsets. And, ideally, it can become the driving force for the whole organisation.

Drawing on the fact that over two thirds of relevant knowledge (1) comes from experience gained in professional situations, the French aeronautics group has elected to take advantage of this “bonanza” via a vibrant learning community.

Everything is being done to ensure that work groups are constantly being set up with a focus on interactive methods using creativity and innovation, as well as critical thinking.

As the COVID-19 pandemic has led to a drop in physical attendance, all trainers are well conversant with specific digital coordination techniques.

“Authoring tools” have been developed to enable each employee to make a contribution. These allow people to create their own learning content. Safran University's 360 learning portal already offers close to 4,000 programmes developed this way.

After several months, an in-house survey will be conducted to examine the initial outcomes and a maturity map for this change of strategy will be produced.

¹ 70:20:10 learning model (developed by Michael M Lombardo and Robert W Eichinger): 70% job-related experiences – 20% interactions with others – 10% formal learning events.