Clariant International Ltd is a world leader in colours, sur-face effects and performance chemicals. Headquartered in Muttenz near Basel, Switzerland and employing more than 22,000 people, Clariant is represented by more than 100 group companies on all five continents.

The company’s Clariant Excellence program includes a spe-cific program of People Excellence, led by Ian Barclay, to enhance its organisational performance. Corporate Spirit’s 360° feedback leadership assessment tool is being used by the entire Executive Committee and all Global Managers to develop a culture of feedback and continuous improvement. Corporate Spirit worked closely with Clariant to create a sur-vey aligned with their Values. The Values express how every-body in Clariant can contribute to sustainable value creation.

Ian Barclay emphasizes that every company striving for long-term success must be able to set the right kind of goals – goals that stretch the comfort zone and encourage employees to make the most of their capabilities. The staff’s role in the big picture needs to be clarified and fully explained. Sufficient support must also be provided to help employees go the extra mile. A productive organisation is a team that strives for common goals.

Improving efficiency begins by listening and paying atten-tion to employees’ ideas and views about their work. The key is to create an atmosphere favouring giving and receiving feedback and to develop a company culture based on this.

“During the 360° assessments which have been carried out for 1,200 Clariant leaders after the initial People Excellence leadership programme, a positive attitude has been clearly visible within the groups”, Ian Barclay mentions. “This is being further encouraged. The 360° Leadership Assessment tool has been an extraordinary success. Its value lies in working as a trigger for regular, specific and purposeful feedback. Partner-ships with companies such as Corporate Spirit are essential in providing measures and insights about where Clariant is, as well as helping the company make real improvements and build successful practices for giving and receiving feedback.”

”SucceSSful performance management meanSgoalS, Support and two-way feedback”

Ian Barclay, Deployment Leader, Clariant International Ltd

Corporate Spirit CS Ltd | Hr inteLLigenCe to Support buSineSS SuCCeSS. | 1/2012

EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT

2001: a Space odyssey, the avatar 3d movie, the pureview mobile phone with a 41 Mp camera ... all glimpses of the future that our generation has seen. to me, another vision of my generation hits me whenever i log onto the next-generation research system developed by Corporate Spirit called cixtranet3®.

Cixtranet3® is a system that covers the entire research process, all the way from initial plan-ning stages to data-gathering, from analysis to reporting and follow-up. For our clients, this means less working hours and a whole new kind of added value. Furthermore, the system has the intelligence to send timely reminders of looming deadlines – with discretion, but also with the required determination. the Sap integration feature can save users dozens of hours at the ini-tial organisational mapping stage. the system has a unique ability to produce not only graphi-cal but also text summaries with clear recom-mendations for every business unit or team of the organisation, in 40 languages – which sounds like modern-day science fiction to me.

the upgraded, in-depth research reports focus on producing the kind of added value that our clients want the most, supported by new best-practice libraries. the reports come with carefully considered recommended actions, as well as clear instructions for action planning for every supervisor and manager.

i would like to express my warmest thanks to our clients and to everybody at Corporate Spirit who have participated in creating this marvellous innovation. Special acknowledgements go to our it department for having turned an impossible task into reality.

i hope all our clients will be able to benefit from this awesome research system as soon as possible!

the future iS here and now

a common effort for improved uSability

As a leader in human resource management surveys and assessments, Corporate Spirit takes pride in being able to provide our clients with state-of-the-art tools and reporting systems. Not only do we want to create solutions that support and facilitate the entire process, we also pay special attention to that our tools should be convenient and practical to use for all managers and supervisors.

Jukka PohJolaCEo

Corporate Spirit CS ltd

CixtranEt3® tEChnologyEDitorial

The latest example of our continuous development work is Cixtranet3® – a tool that brings a whole range of new opportunities to human resource survey processes. While it aims to make the client’s job easier at all stages, Cixtranet3® also manages to speed up the actual research process and make it more efficient. Furthermore, thanks to its easy operation and ability to recognise the needs of various user groups, Cixtranet3® is extremely flexible in adjusting to different, evolving needs of our global clients. Add to that uncompromising operational reliability and security, and there is little doubt that we are entering a whole new dimension in getting more out of any HR survey.

Cixtranet3® has been developed by Corporate Spirit and its clients. Fazer Group is a long-standing client of Corporate Spirit. Kenneth Söderholm, VP Human Resources at Fazer Bakeries & Confectionery, has been using Corporate Spirit’s previous reporting system for several years and is looking forward to the benefits of the further improved Cixtranet3®.

“Cixtranet3® enables follow-up and manage-ment of research processes in a whole new way. Making improvements based on client feedback is remarkable and I appreciated the opportunity to provide input based on what I find essential in my role. At Fazer, more than 400 people in managerial positions or top management are actively using the system.”

CixtranEt3® – rEDEfining ComPEtitivE aDvantagE

the five wayS cixtranet3® addS value to your reSearch

next StepS

CixtranEt3® tEChnology

We already have a clear roadmap to develop the new system further. However, we are very flexible on this and appreciate our clients’ ideas and feedback according to their ever-evolving needs.

1. Continuous support at all phases•new drag-and-drop tool for easier

organisational mapping•pre-survey forum enables global HR

networks to be connected to planning and idea generation

•data collection follow-up tool provides online data about the progress of the process, as well as about fast and slow response units

•possibility to set target levels for response rates and indexes

•dynamic tooltips and context-sensitive user guides online

•The Action Plan feature, solution-focused workbook and links to best practices for utilising survey results complement a highly comprehensive system

•the same survey system works with all Corporate Spirit products, such as employee surveys, 360° assessments, internal co-operation surveys, management team self-assessments etc.

• light pulse surveys can be conducted locally with extreme ease, yet professionally with the new ingenious pulse-generator

2. Faster and more eFFiCient survey proCess • integration with SAP HR can dramatically cut

resources needed for organisational mapping•communication and other support material,

time schedules and contact information are available for all research coordinators 24/7 in 8 languages

•smart to-do listings guide the survey process

3. user group-speCiFiC inFormation generation•clear and concise team reports for team

leaders, including graphs with essential results (trends, external and internal benchmarking), along with a text summary in 40 languages. This can be easily printed or converted to PDF or PowerPoint format.

•results for each function/area (marketing, HR, country etc.) visible for respective managers working in a matrix

•results available to HR for deeper analysis with versatile tools (cross-tabulation, multi-level filtering, free combinations of organisational units etc.)

• in addition to corporate-level executive summary, senior management has access to analyse the entire organisation with tools such as Index Overview. Dashboard function enables additional data to be combined with the research results, even from external sources.

4. instant result monitoring even with organisations with 100,000+ employees• load-balancing ability for optimal scalability•multiple calculation capacity compared to

the previous Cixtranet® version

5. state-oF-the-art reliability and seCurity•SSL secured system•duplicated system – possible breakdowns of

individual parts do not impair the system’s operational ability

CixtranEt3® – rEDEfining ComPEtitivE aDvantagE

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The modern corporate world is characterised by constant and rapid change – thus the leadership path is not always easy to determine. Solid data about the leadership culture helps companies find the right action plans and direct leadership activities towards its chosen priorities. Corporate Spirit has designed and developed a highly sophisticated 360-degree leadership assessment tool to provide supervisors with use-ful feedback on their strengths, skills and behaviour. The 360-degree leadership assessment helps organisations build a business culture where open feedback is given and actively used for learning. In the assessment process, leaders’ targets are effectively linked into organisational objectives and leadership culture. The results are reviewed with a consultant, with special attention being paid to in-dividual strengths relative to the person’s organisational position. As the assessment is directly linked to the company and its specific objectives (especially leadership competences defined by the company), it works to build a solid foundation for achieving company objectives and to develop organisational leadership. Find out how your organisation can get our tool to develop and prepare for new challenges: visit www.corporatespirit.eu.

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marianna väreresearch assistantespoo

esko piekkariSenior Managerespoo

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tarja kaunistoproject Secretaryturku

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