Syngenta Annual Review 2010 - CEO Water Mandate

Syngenta
Annual Review 2010
Creating our offer
People
30 Employees
Our “Taking Root” induction program welcomes new
employees and ensures they have a good business
and cultural understanding of the company as a whole,
26,179
from a local and global perspective. The program aims
to provide a richer, more in-depth approach than
25,925 2009
typical induction programs.
Syngenta Awards
1,100
Entries submitted in 2010.
Every day, employees across the world live
Syngenta’s purpose: Bringing plant potential to life.
Their determination, focus and teamwork enables us
to realize our growth ambitions. The foundations for
our people processes, systems and programs are
driven by the needs of our businesses, providing
opportunities for personal growth, and recognizing
the contribution of each of our employees.
Delivering business excellence
We strive to attract, develop and retain the right global
pool of diverse talent to deliver on commitments to our
stakeholders. We operate in a dynamic world, and our
goal is to ensure that our people are equipped to
deliver the integrated solutions our customers need.
To meet these requirements, Syngenta must have a
scalable, responsive organization that anticipates
new opportunities.
The employee value proposition
Syngenta is committed to providing opportunities
for both professional and personal development.
Through our leadership approach, engagement
programs and people processes, we recognize the
contributions our employees make to our success.
Growth and recognition are the basis of our employee
value proposition.
Graduates are an important group for developing our
leadership pipeline. We have well-established general
management programs such as “Grow in Syngenta”,
a 4-5 year program geared towards broad and fast
development of MBA graduates.
We also run local, specialist trainee programs, such
as the Syngenta R&D training program at our Takfah
station in Thailand where agriculture students learn
about our corn breeding, commercial seed production
and farm management. In Brazil, our trainees gain
business experience by working in sales, marketing,
R&D and supply areas across our Crop Protection and
Seeds business.
Syngenta invests in a variety of learning and
development approaches. These include formal,
classroom-based learning events, e-learning, and
project-based development opportunities. We are
developing mentoring and peer-to-peer coaching
programs that facilitate the sharing of knowledge and
experience. We have a world-class Marketing and
Sales Excellence (MaSE) program, developed and
run in partnership with INSEAD. This long established
program has enabled us consistently to grow market
share and has recently introduced MaSE Masters, an
accreditation scheme to recognize top Marketing and
Sales professionals. Through this scheme, Masters
can practice their skills internationally, develop new
capabilities and share knowledge with colleagues.