Annual report 2005 - Dexia.com

Ensuring Dexia has the managerial skillsnecessary to face the challenges of the future isthe ambition of the Dexia Corporate University(DCU), officially opened in Brussels on 13 January2005.A horizontal project by nature, the Corporate University wasconceived and built by representatives of all the Group’scompanies and business lines. The tool they have put inplace is not simply aimed at responding to individual trainingrequirements. Serving the Dexia strategy, the DCU sees itselfabove all as a crucible, a place of exchange and reflection,a “melting pot” of local cultures which should foster theemergence of a common managerial identity at Group level.Beyond that, it contributes to the development of leadership,that is to say the affirmation of new generations of men andwomen able to take the company’s destiny in their hands,respecting its values and its missions. To that end, there arefour principal lines of approach: training programmes withan operational orientation, the drive of a corporate clubenlivening the international management community, thepublication of a magazine offering economic and financialanalyses (the first edition appeared in October 2005), andthe organization of a summer university. In 2005, some 700Dexia executives, from all the countries in which the groupis present, took part in the work of the DCU. In 2006, morethan 1,000 will occupy its seats.34