Results with people worldwide

People @ org, a publication on organisational development

People @ org is a publication by Schouten & Nelissen (the sister brand of Schouten Training). Each issue highlights a new relevant topic in the field of people and organisations. For the spring/summer issue the topic is Global Development.

The strategy of Schouten & Nelissen and Schouten Training is inspired by the globalisation of our customers. More and more we are receiving requests for international solutions to issues concerning development. this was the inspiration for setting up a worldwide international network including both our own global branches, as well as selected independent freelancers around the globe. The magazine showcases the results!

To show the magazine digitally please click here. In case you would like to receive a free hardcopy, please send an e-mail with your address details to international@sn.nl

Schouten Training expands her business to Vietnam

Schouten Training will open a branch in Vietnam, in Ho Chi Minh City on Monday April 4th, 2011. The reason for this expansion is the growing corporate demand for support in development issues.

Vietnam is the seventh country in which the leading training and consultancy firm is active.

Jos Langens obtained his masters in Psychology (Organizational Behavior, with his thesis on Conflict Management) at the University of Utrecht in 1992. After having worked for two years as a Consultant in a Dutch bank, he switched his career to become a financial advisor in the Mid-Corporate field. The major part of his career Jos worked at ING Group (Banking/Insurances), in positions as Relationship Manager (Mid-Corporates), Sector Manager Business Development (Head Office, Amsterdam) and General Manager Marketing (ING Vysya, Bangalore) .  In 2005 Jos relocated to Vietnam where he started activities to support foreign companies to start and develop their business in Vietnam.

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Schouten Training welcomes Shanghai

Shanghai after four years of rapid growth, Schouten China has recently decided to establish an office in Shanghai. It’s devoted in introducing the experiential soft skill training to Shanghai and East China with more local taste. In the past four years, Schouten China has earned more and more client recognition through its unique experiential ideas and approaches.



“In training, we help participants to talk more about themselves rather than the training objectives in order to better understand participant’s own behavior pattern and its effect to others.” This has become the common statement used to describe Schouten China training. More and more clients have adopted Schouten China soft skill training to build their teams and corporate culture.

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Worldwide contract with Shell!

A business unit of Schouten Training has recently signed a worldwide contract with Shell, a large global company in the energy sector. The contract is for an ongoing series of 10 Personal & Business Skills (PBS) courses all over the world.

The objectives for the global provision are to present and deliver a consistent PBS portfolio globally. The portfolio of courses is mapped and linked with the client’s competencies. The courses aim to support people in the development of these competencies in order to develop a standard of excellence within the company in the skills these courses cover. The core aim is to achieve global consistency across regions within the Personal and Business Skills portfolio.

The courses are adapted to the specific needs of the client and will be conducted in 3 regions covering over 40 countries: Americas, Central Zone (Europe, Russia and Africa) and Asia Pacific and Middle East.

We have a network of trainers all over the world which will ensure global results are met. The benefits of such a broad network also include being able to adapt the training to the local culture in each country.

What do we do?

We support corporate management all over the world achieving their goals in global markets, by focusing on organisational development and the necessary developing of their leaders and employees. 

Our core competence is the implementation of change, for which we provide a scope of management tools and services.

We can help your organisation identifying solutions and focusing on their implementation through training, consulting, research, support and coaching.

'Results with People Worldwide'

In today’s global economy, commercial companies and not-for-profit organisations increasingly embrace the whole world as their workplace. Along with the immense opportunities of this new reality have come unexpected challenges as well.

How do we best organise effective learning across borders? How do we address highly diverse training demands worldwide? How do we bind our people to a common set of corporate values while taking local realities into account? These are just some of the many dilemmas our clients face.

We address these issues and more, providing services to clients with cross-border learning and development needs.

Our mission: To collaborate with our clients to transform the talents and potential of work forces worldwide into quantifiable business results.