Kets de Vries Institute

Designing Corporate Universities

On-the-job training has changed over time. In turbulent times, organizations not only have a vested interest in recruiting the best for their companies, they also want to keep their employees working at the top of their game once they have been hired. One of the more cost-effective ways to do this is to train executives at a corporate university. Corporate universities, grounded on knowledge management, capture employees’ implicit and explicit learning. The centerpiece of this model is aligning educational initiatives with clear business objectives.

At KDVI, we design corporate universities as strategic tools designed to assist companies achieve their goals by conducting activities that foster individual and organizational learning and knowledge. We help you acquire the skills/competencies you need to enable the organization achieve its business objectives, both short- and long-term. In designing a curriculum for a corporate university, we emphasize leader development, creative thinking, and problem solving.

A corporate university enables you to take a closer inventory of the organization’s ability to learn, how networks are created, and how knowledge is shared and distributed. With our clinical orientation, KDVI is especially equipped to organize programs that foster “soft” skills.