Acea - in a scientific partnership with Luiss Business School – adopted an innovative integrated training model between 2018 and 2021.
The Acea Managerial Academy has evolved into the Management Training programme promoted by the Acea Business School. Please see our dedicated section to find out more.
E-learning, classroom sessions, follow-ups and peer-coaching. Managerial Academy was the training center of excellence for the leaders who will drive Italy’s multi-utility evolution.
We have launched an excellent training programme aimed at multi-utility managers, in order to turn them into responsible players of an ethical and sustainable development. To face a fast-changing society, our challenge was to keep high standards of our services to respond ever more efficiently to the citizens’ needs. We felt responsible for raising our leaders’ awareness of their role.
Hence the need to valorize the human capital within the company and invest in training, at every level, using innovative teaching methods to transmit an identity rich in well-defined and recognizable values to every person inside and outside the Acea Group.
This is how the Acea Manaterial Academy was born: a training program implemented with the scientific support of the LUISS Business School, in collaboration with Ama and Atac Roma.
On the e-learning platform, thanks to videos and digital materials, participants learnt remotely and prepared for classroom experimentation: business games to test entrepreneurial skills, develop innovative and creative problem-solving capabilities, plane landing simulations to test abilities.
"It’s not a children’s aircraft pilot game, it’s an opportunity to learn, an experience that encourages to reflect on past professional experiences to explore specific skills in view of future experiences”, explained Andrea Montefusco, Professor of Practice at the LUISS Business School. “The scenarios recreated in the simulations allow to make analogies with work experiences that we could, should or would like to build in the future.”
The Managerial Academy represented an innovative approach to integrated training, using a combination of channels, each with a specific function: an e-learning platform, classroom sessions, a mobile app.
In addition to online sessions and classroom experiences, “students” could continue to practice and learn more about the topics they studied through the Managerial Academy app. Articles curated by the LUISS Business School were publishes on the app every day, for the duration of the course, and covered two topics: Innovation and Digital Transformation, Leadership and People Management.
One of the characteristics of the Elios Program is exchange and communication between colleagues. For example, peer-coaching takes place for the entire duration of the course: colleagues organized in groups of two autonomously plan a number of meetings to examine together how they are applying to their work what they have learned from the program. During the meetings, colleagues take turns in assuming the role of coach and helping their partner along the development process of their professional skills.
In addition to the Elios program designed for managers, there were also training sessions for resources included in professional development programs. The Aurora program, as it was called, was designed to instill culture, skills and provide the tools necessary to answer the needs of an increasingly more modern service company.
With the Managerial Academy, Acea worked to anticipate the future, training leaders who will drive Italy’s multi-utility market.
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