ICM developed, implemented and facilitated, for the European Commission, an action-learning program for Russian executives. The Commission was acting as project manager for a European consortium including consultants and business people in the textile sector. ICM put together a team of 10 consultants including Russian co-facilitators and speakers from the European textile industry, plus a team of ICM consultants based in Moscow during the entire operation.     ICM's role involved : Project management : replying to the tender, building the consultant team - including Russian and industrial colleagues, organizing logistics in Moscow (rooms, transportation, simultaneous interpreting, etc), organizing the immersion sessions for the Russian managers in Western European companies, managing the highly complex financial reporting for the Commission Selecting the Russian participants (managers in the textile sector) on the basis of interviews conducted in Russia before the program began Developing five action-learning modules in Russian : methodology, content, documents, speakers briefs, training of Russian trainers Providing in-company immersion : ICM identified host companies and negotiated internships, briefed hosting managers, worked on internship objectives with the Russian managers, followed up on the internships and conducted de-briefing sessions with the Russian managers and the host companies after the immersion period was over.   Back