ST University
- Training for better performance

Interview with Gerard Mangin, Director of Education

Operating on a worldwide basis, with a core team of 30 professionals in France, Italy, China, Singapore, and the USA, and an active network of more than 1,000 in-house trainers, STU develops and deploys strategic and company-wide training programs and learning services. The University also supports business, regional and functional areas, to improve overall performance.

One of the University’s key objectives is to help us build a strong managerial community, anchored in our Sustainable Excellence culture to enable us to face the turbulence of our business environment, and the realities and challenges of the new century.

STU offers three management curricula to give managers a coherent development path, so they can move efficiently into their function, grow and build their multicultural network, and then develop as high impact leaders. These programs foster and disseminate our Sustainable Excellence culture, through dedicated workshops.

Another critical role of STU is to deploy strategic programs quickly and effectively. By investing in a powerful, new e-learning platform, STU has rolled out the Corporate Responsibility Awareness training to more than 10,000 employees in just nine months. That’s 20% of ST employees since the project was launched in 2006. This training is helping us develop a new Sustainable Excellence mindset.

STU has also developed, with the help of the major players in our supply chain, new Supply Chain training, taking into account the Principles for Sustainable Excellence.

With tutors in instructional design and performance development, STU also provides business workshops in different domains. A new training program, Quality Excellence in Mind, is being deployed in all organizations to help us reach the highest quality in everything we do.

Another course, From Creativity to Innovation, is helping ST organizations develop original solutions that satisfy our environmental and Health & Safety requirements, to name just a few.

STU offers more than 100 courses, covering five major categories
Management (representing 41.6% of total STU training hours) Job-specific 25.2% Personal development 20.8% Masters in microelectronics 7.2% Tools and methodologies 5.2%

 

Training standard
Minimum training hours per employee per year (ST standard) 35
2006 indicators
STU activity versus ST training activity 5.47%
STU training hours 118, 385
ST training hours 2,161,867