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Coorpacademy announces a partnership with 7-Shapes to learn the main principles of Lean Management

 

7-Shapes, through its 7-Shapes School offer, the 1st interactive training offer in Lean Management, 100% online and accessible to all, and Coorpacademy, an EdTech start-up offering intelligent learning experience platforms to more than one million learners, announce a partnership to train employees in Lean Management.

Lean Management is a work organization philosophy based on collective intelligence and aimed at improving a company’s performance. Invented by Toyota in the 1970s, this philosophy has led to the creation of numerous methods and tools that offer many advantages: elimination of non-value added, reduction of excessive inventories, improvement of deadlines, quality, and greater agility thanks to the involvement of all employees.

While most of the world’s large corporations have a Lean approach (also called Continuous Improvement or Operational Excellence), the training and application of Lean Management remain complex to organize. Indeed, traditional Lean training courses are often face-to-face, time-consuming and costly, and most of the time they are only aimed at managers and engineers. However, one of the foundations for the success of an operational excellence approach is that it be carried by all employees. 7-Shapes takes up this challenge by making Lean Management training available to everyone!

7-Shapes School offers a practical, fun and engaging solution to Lean Management training, whatever the learners’ level. The learning paths are composed of modules that are unlocked as the learner progresses. For the theory part of Lean, the 7-Shapes School includes motion design videos, interactive lessons and quizzes. But the specificity of the 7-Shapes School lies in its challenges and mini-games, exercises based on an interactive business simulation. These exercises allow the learner to put his knowledge into practice and encourage him to take action in the field, on a daily basis.

In order to train all employees in Lean in a fun and efficient way, Coorpacademy offers with 7-Shapes to integrate these interactive training simulations on Lean Management, directly on the learning platforms of its customers. This new option, in the form of an add-on, enriches the “Premium Content Hub” offer with high added value for the increase in competence of all the employees and the development of their employability.

In addition to this, Coorpacademy will enrich its content catalog by proposing two courses co-edited with 7-Shapes to understand the history of Lean Management and to learn the basic concepts of operational excellence.

About Coorpacademy

Founded in 2013, Coorpacademy is a European startup member of the EdTech France association, specialized in innovative and scalable digital learning solutions. Based in Paris and in Lausanne at the Swiss EdTech Collider of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Coorpacademy is at the heart of research on new learning methods. With its platform, Coorpacademy accompanies the transformation of companies by engaging their collaborators, partners and customers in their rise in skills. To unleash this desire and desire to learn, Coorpacademy has developed a proprietary Saas platform based on innovative pedagogical engineering supported by the EPFL innovation laboratories and exclusive content focused on soft skills. The result: a more fun, flexible and collaborative learning experience, focused on the learner.

About 7-Shapes 

7-Shapes is a training start-up founded in 2017 that creates and publishes 7-Shapes School, a performance training course offering based on a business simulation, a fun and operational way to effectively learn the principles and tools of Lean Management, Agility and Supply Chain.

7-Shapes offers its courses in the form of licenses that can be used by consultants, trainers or Lean managers to train all company employees.  Many schools also use the 7-Shapes School to train their students. Most of the 7-Shapes courses also lead to hybrid training courses that can be certified and are eligible for CPF, OPCO, FNE, regional funding, etc. More than 5000 people have already trained with 7-Shapes School and the satisfaction rate of the solution on the CPF is 4.86/5.

International partnership: Coorpacademy will distribute Cegos e-learning solutions in Europe [Press Release]

 

Cegos, a worldwide leader in learning & development, and Coorpacademy, a EdTech startup which deploys a digital learning platform adapted to the learners’ new uses, sign a distribution partnership agreement.

Through this new partnership, Coorpacademy customers will now have access to Cegos’ e-learning catalog on Soft Skills (in three different Html5 formats). This premium content will be available to Coorpacademy customers in France, Germany, Switzerland and in the UK.

Founded in 2013, Coorpacademy is a European EdTech startup specialized in innovative, scalable corporate digital learning solutions. Based in Paris and Lausanne, at the EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)’s campus, the company is at the heart of Learning Sciences and Educational Technology Research, partnering with EPFL’s Research Centers. Thanks to its digital Learning Experience Platform, Coorpacademy supports companies’ transformation and efficiency by engaging their employees, partners and clients in upskilling on any topic central to their competitiveness, thus reaching top quartile engagement rates. To unleash the desire to learn, Coorpacademy has developed a proprietary Saas platform delivering latest generation instructional design backed by Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Innovation labs, making corporate learning more fun, flexible and collaborative, truly centered on the end-user: the learner. Coorpacademy is part of the EdTech France association.

With its international culture and French origins, the Cegos Group is both a keen observer and a dedicated player in the world of work and business. The Cegos Group deploys a global offering, including turnkey and tailored training and development, operational consultancy, Digital Learning, Managed Training Services, international training projects, and certificate or diploma courses.

Running its own operations in 11 European, Asian and Latin American countries, Cegos is also active in over 50 countries through its network of partners and distributors, which are all leading e-learning solutions providers. Thanks to this network, its Catalogue on Soft Skills has 2.5 million learners per year.

Arnauld Mitre, co-founder of Coorpacademy, explains: “Since our creation in 2013, our vision of learning has been supported by outstanding, premium, unrivaled learning content and our ambition has been to offer the best possible learning experience to our learners. We have observed that our methods, from flipped learning to courses co-edited with top industry experts, showed high engagement rates amongst learners. We also thought that it was time for us to give our learners a pluralistic content offering in order to become a learning hub for top qualitative content. This is why we’re very proud to unveil this first partnership with Cegos, whose content catalog quality has been acknowledged worldwide and has won multiple awards. We’re thrilled to celebrate this major milestone in becoming a hub, allowing learners to find the best available content, with Cegos’ offer plus our existing catalog on learning soft skills.”

Pascal Debordes, Head of Channels and Alliances at Cegos Group, adds: “We are particularly proud to start this partnership with Coorpacademy. This fast-growing company and Cegos share the same learning & development conviction. Digital transformation and technological breakthroughs are revolutionising jobs and skills. The challenge is even more significant with the global health crisis we are facing, and which will have huge consequences on employment and organizations: millions of employees around the world will have to upgrade or refresh their skills through learning. More than ever, L&D has a crucial role to play. The power and the services provided by the Coorpacademy Learning Experience Platform (LXP) coupled with the innovation and the 18 languages of our Soft Skills catalogue is a premium answer to skills development challenges that companies need to address.”

If you want to discover more about the partnership, it’s here.

Exclusive interview with Eric Pommat, Director of Development at DUNOD

 

Coorpacademy has started a partnership with les Editions DUNOD.

The famous French publishing house of the Hachette Livre group is – among other things – the 1st business publisher in France.

With strong brands like Mercator, Strategor, Communicator and iconic collections such as La Boîte à outils, les 5 Clés or 2h chrono, DUNOD just keeps on innovating.

From books to digital learning, DUNOD successfully accompanies all employees from any types of companies on their training needs, targeting operational topics but also soft skills (creativity, self-confidence, stress and time management…) with a proven pedagogical approach.

In co-edition with this partner, we just launched a first course on Mindfulness at work. 2 others courses are already scheduled: Boost your creativity with Mind-Mapping and Being efficient at work in the digital age!

To celebrate this new partnership, we sat down with Eric Pommat, Director of Development.

Dunod is a 2 centuries-old publishing house. How do you think books and digital learning can – and must – cohabit in the lifelong training of people?

Today, our books already coexist with digital learning. Just as they already coexist with their ebooks versions or the corporate training products ecosystem – they’re part of it – such as instructor-led training or news conferences, the galaxy of free products such as YouTube videos, blogs, MOOCs and social learning; you can also find in this ecosystem more innovating pedagogical formats like reversed tutoring, peer-to-peer or learning expeditions…

These offerings coexist because they meet different needs and different ways of consumption. It’s really good news for learners to access this diversity of formats, we’re happy about that.

At Dunod, beside the product, we’re interested in the ways of content consumption and use cases. They evolve in corporate training, because of the abilities offered by the digital era, of the training needs which changed – today, we must learn everyday – and they are being facilitated by the progressive evolution of the sector’s reglementation.

Today, there are as many use cases as there are individuals! We don’t see the digital learning emergence as a threat to books because they are two different ways of consumption. On the contrary, we’re seeing that as a nice opportunity of development, coherent and pretty obvious for a publishing house like us: digital learning is a sector very close to publishing. Way closer to publishing than instructor-led training, for example! We have content, a vast network of experts, etc.

With its books, Dunod was already a major player in distance training… 2 centuries ago!

Why partnering with Coorpacademy to make the knowledge from your books being transmitted in a different way? How do you think this digitalized and gamified diffusion will bring value to the content?

What we really liked about Coorpacademy, before all things, is the concept of the platform: a homogeneous and innovating pedagogical format (inspired by reversed pedagogy), but also engaging (short content, with granularity and gamification), in phase with the market.

Coorpacademy also carries a clear promise to the users and an important editorialization of content, which is rare in the digital learning sector – it is in phase with our publishing house DNA. They took strategic bias in which we find ourselves: seek for quality regarding content, pedagogy, or motion design videos, for example.

We found in the courses Dunod by Coorpacademy a new, original way to spread our content by meeting new use cases, targeting new learners and new markets: BtoB, the English-speaking world for example.

And we also want to believe in the “Netflix-like” platforms models. This is in phase with innovation and the announced reform of corporate training.

Yes, Coorpacademy is ticking a lot of boxes.

Our first course on Mindfulness at work has just been released. Among the topics studied in the course, there are the identification of our “attention thieves”, the deconnexion to find a better connexion to what matters, or exercises to reinforce his/her attention. Can you talk to us about this course?

To create the course “Mindfulness at work”, we used the expertise of Nathalie Va, Laethem, who published with Dunod the Toolbox of Minduflness.

We’re now facing what we could call the economy of attention. Especially in this digital era. As Tristan Harris, Google ex-product philosopher, said, “Technology is hijacking our minds”.

As Cal Newport said in his book Deep Work, we work in an era where our attention is sought-after by a gang of engineers working for companies having a lot of money. Our attention is now a scarce and valuable resource, hijacked by the Silicon Valley giants.

In our professional lives – and the border between personal and professional is more and more blurry – we go from reading our emails to a WhatsApp message, before checking the Twitter news feed, and then our Facebook notifications…

We’re “grasped” and we lose connection with ourselves.

Mindfulness is a secular technique of personal development, which allows us to stop the automatic pilot for one moment, focus on oneself, focus on the present moment: our emotions, sensations, thoughts, what we are doing and the situation itself.

Scientific studies show that mindfulness decrease the level of cortisol in the body, which is the stress hormone!

When you’re practicing mindfulness, you have less tensions and are more calm, you open your perception field and it allows you to be more comprehensive of you and others.

The goal of this course is to discover the benefits of mindfulness and to do the exercises instantly, like remembering oneself.

Thank you Eric!

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