Inventing a New Business at Sodexo

Does a spectacular growth curve have to level off? For Sodexo, executive development is one key to keeping the company on the rise. Founded in 1966 in Marseilles, Sodexo started fast and never looked back, earning its place among the world’s largest companies in barely four decades of remarkably rapid expansion.

To insure continuing growth, Sodexo staked a claim to a whole new marketplace of its own creation, not just by expanding the scope of its offerings, but also by becoming a strategic partner in the eyes of its clients. The mandate: design, manage and deliver comprehensive quality-of-life service solutions.

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Executive Development Means You Can Push Beyond Your Comfort Zone

Taking cues from the needs of Sodexo clients and clients’ customers to capture growing market opportunities, the new strategy challenged the company’s 300 Group Senior Leaders worldwide to push beyond their traditional comfort zone as a food-and-facilities management services provider with thriving but essentially isolated service components. Sodexo’s learning and development organization turned its attention to the next level down in the organization. The goal: Engage this critical population of 1,000 senior managers around the world, demonstrate to them the value of Sodexo’s ambitious new strategy, and show them how to make that strategy into reality by building a unique offering based on 100% complementary on-site service and motivation solutions.

Strategically placed at the heart of the program was a customized, competitive business simulation called VirtuoSo—built to integrate and test participants’ successful application of the newly acquired knowledge.

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