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Internal Work - Learning & Development

An integral part of life within Capgemini's Consultant Development Community involves helping to run one of its nine internal streams.  The nine different streams are: Corporate Social Responsibility; Events; Rapid Action Stream; Business Stream; Recruitment; Learning & Development; Framework; Knowledge; and Internal Marketing.

For the past three months, I have been involved in organising activities for the Learning & Development Stream.  Over the course of the two year graduate programme, there are a wide variety of different formal and informal training/learning opportunities to benefit from; the Learning & Development Stream, is responsible for helping to organise many of these training opportunities, which include formal Academy sessions, computer-based training courses and, the area for which I am personally responsible, informal MySkills sessions.

MySkills are informal one hour sessions that are organised on a fortnightly basis in Capgemini's Wardour Street Office.  Example topics of MySkills sessions include storyboarding (a key consulting technique), Microsoft Excel and Customer Experience Transformation (a service offering provided by our Markets, Sales and Service capability unit).

Getting involved in stream work such as organising MySkills is a great way to develop your own skill set away from a client-facing environment, whilst also adding real value to the Consultant Development Community as a whole.  I am due to rotate onto the Recruitment Stream on 15th December, a very different, but once again rewarding stream to get involved in.  I will keep you updated...

Matthew is an Associate Consultant who joined Capgemini Consulting in September 2008.  He is currently working on a Strategy project for a major Government Department