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Ifis Academy

Ifis Academy is the training, promotion and development centre for Banca Ifis’ talent. Stemming from the commitment of our management in involving internal organisational structures, with internationally renowned partners and top business schools.

Inspired by the Bank’s leadership model, it is a management school that constantly enhances the technical and behavioural skills of all its people, Ifis People.

Ifis Academy is a project by Kaleidos, the Social Impact Lab of Banca Ifis set up in 2022 with the aim of promoting initiatives with a high social impact

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The Academy’s mission

The Academy is the tool with which the Bank invests in its people’s growth.

A hub to develop skills and talent, it supports the Bank’s competitiveness by building a strong organisational identity where excellence, innovation and sustainability are constantly intertwined in an ever-evolving world.

The Academy’s goals

It creates a shared corporate culture

It strengths and broads the professional profiles

It enhance existing skills and know-how

Distinguishing features

Neuroscience

Assimilating neuroscience, nudge learning and gamification theories

A human touch

It has a digital interface without forgoing the human factor

People-centric

It focuses on people‘s experience, promoting their growth and development

Know-how

It enhances internal know-how by involving and identifying internal teachers and facilitators

Multiple partners

It is an open structure with multiple partners

Our leadership model

Banca Ifis’ leadership model indicates the conduct needed to face the many corporate challenges in place and to promote the mission and values we identify with.

Its five pillars: each with two distinctive abilities. Skills that represent the attitude-related goal to aim for also through the support of training activities.

Awareness
  • Reliability
  • Self-management
  • Diversity & inclusion
  • Helping people grow
  • Communicating & influencing
  • Network-building
  • Focus on results
  • Ability to take decisions
  • Sustainability
  • Agility
Awareness
Awareness

Awareness

  • Reliability
  • Self-management

Promotion

  • Diversity & inclusion
  • Helping people grow

Connection

  • Communicating & influencing
  • Network-building

Action

  • Focus on results
  • Ability to take decisions

Vision

  • Sustainability
  • Agility

Ready To Race

Ready To Race is a three-year experiential training course and is a brand new addition to the training and development opportunities that the Bank offers its employees through the Ifis Academy.

Intended for 50 young people that go through a thorough selection process, managed in collaboration with The European House – Ambrosetti, this project consists of several training sessions, meetings with prominent speakers, visits to companies and strategic foreign trips, and stems from a desire to support and enhance the growth of Ifis People.