04/01/2016
Sabancı University Executive Development Unit – EDU establishes another corporate academy. The Erdemir Group Leadership School, a joint initiative between Sabancı University EDU and Erdemir Group, was launched at an event in the Sabancı University Performing Arts Center on November 27, 2015. The Erdemir Group Academy has been in development since 2014 to offer the best improvement solutions to Group employees, and Erdemir executives were delighted to be working with the Sabancı University Executive Development Unit – EDU for the Leadership School, one of the most important divisions under the Academy.
Following introductory remarks by Erdemir Group Board of Directors Chair Ali Pandır, Sabancı University President Professor Nihat Berker and Sabancı University Executive Development Unit – EDU Director Dr. Cüneyt Evirgen, the first lecture of the school began.
Erdemir Group Board of Directors Chair Ali Pandır began with emphasizing the Erdemir Group mission to become "a world-class company." He defined world-class as excellence in quality, service and cost competitiveness, and being a company that is exemplary among its competitors and admirably singled out in the industry. Noting the need for a new generation that has received excellent education and is fully technology-literate, Pandır said that one of Erdemir's missions was to attract and retain talent.
Sabancı University President Professor Nihat Berker discussed the concepts of strategy and leadership. Professor Berker said that one needed to be farsighted and perseverent to succeed. Explaining that the concepts of strategy and leadership were under constant evolution, Professor Berker continued, "The society evolves, needs evolve, results evolve. We will always have competitors. People take pleasure in winning and advancing. We owe it to ourselves to play for our own sake, and win. Playing and winning a 'fair play' will enable the society to advance. As a university, we are excellent at this. We succeed because we are at one with the real world out there."
Sabancı University Executive Development Unit – EDU Director Dr. Cüneyt Evirgen said that EDU's mission was to follow the Sabancı University philosophy of creating and developing together. Dr. Cüneyt Evirgen said, “As a university, we are part of the process of generating knowledge, and knowledge becomes more valuable when shared. Knowing how to use knowledge carries us beyond merely being aware of it. Here, we will experience the pleasure of learning by doing."
he Erdemir Group Leadership School is the product of 10 months of collaboration between the Sabancı University Executive Development Unit – EDU and Erdemir Group. Directors and Managers of the Group are eligible for the Leadership School, and courses include Personal Leadership, the Position of the Manager in HR Processes, Performance Management and Feedback, Relationship Management, Leadership and Coaching Styles, and Leadership Stance.
