For Décathlon, training its employees represents a major strategic point

Training employees is a strategic line essential to develop the company. Trainings are closely linked to responsibilities given very soon in jobs. Their objective is to favor autonomy and employability over the world.

The ambition of “Décathlon Échanges” is to be the world reference in terms of managerial innovation, training and instruction.

The Individual Training Plan (“PIF” in French) is the plan that the company itself offers. It is usually offered per “job” and divided into 4 parts:

• The integration: trainings necessary to master the basics of the job, to acquire the fundamental knowledge.
• The apprenticeship: trainings allowing for skill improvement in the job, making it possible to know how to anticipate activities, to become efficient in one’s job.
• The improvement: trainings enabling one to enhance his level of expertise of his job.
• The additional: to attend, independently from the job or to develop know-how useful for a future job.

Three training schools in the company, “Décathlon Échanges” (exchanges), provide human basics and managerial skills.

These formations, implanted in Villeneuve d’Ascq, Shanghai and Bangalore, are also driven towards management and personal development. Moreover, it proposes innovations on the managerial practices, to adapt to the environment and make it a differentiator and an element of performance.

During these trainings, trainees come from all jobs, of various background in the company, which enables everyone to get enriched by the diversity and to increase moments of exchanges.

It also proposes several times a month conferences conducted by external participants, related to managerial innovation and filmed to be available in streaming to every employee on their website.