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Expertise is the Key to sucess

How do you make your employees fit for the future? How do you help customers gain that bit of extra competence to secure a competitive edge? And how do you lay the foundations for shaping tomorrow´s markets? In order to answer these questions, motan launched motan campus.

motan campus create experts

It has been three years since motan campus was launched. Of course, there was training before. However, by establishing their own academy, motan has created an institution that was especially designed for the systematic transfer of knowledge. The training programme has since been constantly extended. While at the beginning the focus was more on technological subjects like dosing and mixing, storage and conveying, or drying and crystallisation, courses on service orientation have been added over time.  

Currently, a completely new programme is going to be set up: motan start.

Peter Breuer, head of motan campus training, describes the new training module as follows: “motan start addresses junior employees who have not been working in the company for more than three years and who show exceptional talent. They will be introduced step by step to all the relevant business areas of the company and will thus be prepared for special tasks.”

Another target group of motan campus are the customers themselves who are familiarised with the specific layout and process technology of their plant.

So within just a few years, motan campus has developed into a corporate academy which combines high competence with mental flexibility and an excellent reputation. Peter Breuer recalls: “While in 2013 we focussed on internal on-site trainings in Germany, we already went on tour with motan campus the year after. In 2014, most of the trainings took place in China and Singapore, followed by the USA in 2015.”

The steadily growing interest in the programme is also reflected in the number of participants which has nearly doubled in the three years of its existence, going up to over 200 people attending the different courses in 2015. The seminars are offered all year. They take one or two days, according to subject, and are held either in German or English, depending on the group or the origin of the participants.  

The “Train the Trainer” concept works particularly well.

The purpose of this concept is not only to provide knowledge but also to enable participants to share it with their colleagues, employees and customers. The cascade model has proved successful and made motan campus even more attractive.

It was the overall concept that contributed to the rapid development of motan campus in three ways:
1. Subject-wise – by constantly extending the training programme.
2. Participant- wise – by addressing different groups of participants.
3. Scope-wise – by the literal export of knowledge to the regions.
It has become a highly dynamic instrument of corporate culture. At the same time, it greatly appeals to the customers who are very enthusiastic about how expert knowledge is developed, maintained and shared.

But not only does motan explore the geographical dimensions of a decentralised training concept, they also follow new paths in terms of quality. So at the beginning of the year they entered into cooperation with the renowned “SKZ” [South German Plastics Centre], the largest institute of its kind in Germany.

Together they developed a seminar on continuous and discontinuous plastics processing. The aim was to create an indepth understanding of the overall process of which motan materials management is a part. What was important, however, was that the newly acquired theoretical
knowledge could immediately be applied to a real-life situation at the machine. It is this approach
– the blending of theory and practice – that makes the SKZ and motan campus a perfect match.

We definitely look forward to this cooperation. There’s still a lot of potential.

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