LEARNING LABS

Learning Labs are learning activities aimed to the leadership development of the top management population.

Top managers are coming from all the different realities of the Group: they have the possibility to share among peers their experiences, knowledge and cultures by doing different kinds of sense-making activities.

The approach is completely innovative, because it gives relevance to the presence of different personal attitudes and ways of learning.

For this reason, the locations used are creative working environments to offer activities that stimulate either the mind, the sense and the emotions:

CONVERSATION ROOMS: there are spaces which are perfect to stimulate conversations and discussions.

QUIET ROOMS: there are other spaces, very quite ambients, which help having moments of reflections..

ENERGY ROOMS: finally there are energizing spaces which are dedicated to produce something and to be active and creative.

In the Learning Labs, the traditional trainer has been replaced by a facilitator who supports the learning process.

He/she guides people through different activities and will not find out conclusions by proposing fixed models or rules, since the outcomes will be produced by the participants themselves.

The facilitator’s main task is to help participants sharing and reflecting to get a deeper awareness and understanding.

Methods used are aligned with this purpose; for example, the facilitator is used to:

• ask provocative questions;
• create connections;
• enlarge point of views;
• create different psychological settings;
• link all the activities with the thin red line;
• give reasons why something happens.

Participants have a great experience and realize that they are going to be key contributors to the implementation of the process of the “Transfer of Learning”. The outcomes and take-aways of the one session, are transferred to the participants of the following edition.

In general, all Learning Labs want to underline also the UniCredit Group values:

• Leading Leaders
• Senior Executive Leadership
• Understanding the Context & Designing the Future
• Power, Influence & Collaboration,
• Inspire & Mobilize,
• Translating Strategy into Results
• Giving & Receiving Feedback
• Managing Complexity & Ambiguity
• Cross Culture in a no Boundaries Company,
• Strategic Finance,
• Strategic Risk Management
• Executive Communication Through Storytelling,
• Successful Presentations in a Cross Cultural Context