Leadership Academy

Agna Leadership Academy

An organization has three options for its employees: to help them progress, send them away, or do nothing and watch how mediocrity becomes the norm, and how the employees with a low performance harm the company.

Since its beginnings, Agna Group has believed that having the right people is its most important asset, and investing in them is an infinite process. To us, every employee has potential, and for each one of them training is a part of their daily work.

Since the mid 90’s, at Agna Group, there has been a special training structure in order to accomplish our motto 80% of the time is working and 20% of it is training. Organized by the company itself, and by its international partners, we have always held training sessions focused on the professional growth of our employees.

In early 2000, another system of training was used for the directors of the company, who were trained by foreign trainers with vast academic and business experience. Meanwhile, the standard training for the rest of the staff has proceeded as normal.

In 2008, Agna Group established a training system for its employees and partners. In particular, there have been annual training programs for employees of the sales department, delivery employees, sales agents, mid- level executives, high-level executives, as well as Agna’s business partners.

In spite of all our efforts, the training system had its flaws, mainly because while training sessions were focused on developing the employees’ abilities, not everyone was having the right level of training.

In 2011, the Executive Board of Agna Group decided to set up a formal education system. This system would not only be based on developing the professional abilities of employees, but would also be focused on creating and sharing our previously acquired business knowledge. It would accomplish the business needs related to learning, change employees’ behavior by enforcing the corporate culture, and also improve employees’ performance.

For that purpose, we contacted several experts and institutions, domestic and international, for their advice and suggestions.

Using these suggestions, and referring to the best practices of contemporary business, as well as our own  practices, the Board of Directors decided to establish an institution within Agna Group, Agna Leadership Academy.

At its conception, the purpose of Agna Leadership Academy was to only train the employees of Agna Group. However, as part of its contribution to the community, the academy will be available to everyone interested, following the same standards as a one day event, for free or at a low cost.

Agna Leadership Academy began its activities in January 2012, with the first module of the Leadership Development Program, Core Values and the Belief System for Success, which is the first level of the academy.

In February 2013, the second level of the Academy started, with the first module of the Managerial Leadership Program, Objectives, Strategic Thinking and Application.

In 2016 we started the third level of the Academy, the Global Leadership Program.