Schouten China establishes its Shanghai Office (16th November 2010, 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. “In the vocabulary of team, nothing is more important than the word ‘cooperation’.” said by Chris Jiang, the CEO of Schouten China, in the opening ceremony of its Shanghai office at Jianguo hotel on November 16. “in order to cooperate more effectively, it requires not only the team members to be equipped with hard skills like good knowledge and experience, but also and more importantly good soft skills. Only by such, the potential of the team member’s hard skills can be recognized before it brings value to the organization.” During the opening ceremony, the President of Schouten & Nelissen Group of the Netherlands Mr. Jan Schouten who made a special trip to Shanghai from the Netherlands reviewed the development of Schouten China. “Before coming to China, I spent more than thirty years in turning my company to an educational group with the annual revenue reaching 80 million Euros. You can say I was already successful in the Netherlands. But like everyone thinks, China had become the hottest market in the past decades, many people were eyeing on China’s development, I, was one of them! Four year ago, I came to China for the first time. In just two days time, I have made the decision to invest in establishing Schouten China in Beijing. On top of this, I continuously invested in China in order to introduce Schouten China services to more cities in China. ” He said, “I believe, China is the second land where I can make my dream become true. I also believe, just like in the Netherlands, organizations in China also need to improve the soft skills of their employees in order to build people oriented organizational culture.” Mr. Ton Voogt who is the Vice President of Schouten China and had always been providing guidance and support during the company’s development revealed his own stories in his speech telling how soft skill made him constantly grow.”No matter for personal happiness, organizational success or the harmony of the society,” he said, “it all depends on whether or not people have good soft skills.”“What made us special is that our training focuses on the behavior level.” Dr. Joanne Zhang, CPO of Schouten China answered while facilitating the panel discussion with the clients, “We strive to help the participants to challenge themselves, try out new behaviors and experience the feeling of achievement after the effect of change. To do that, we encourage participants to share their challenges and try to face the challenges with the new behaviors.”“I am very satisfied with our cooperation with Schouten China.” said by the training manager of DSM Ms. Xu Liling during her sharing. “They pay special attention to the customization of their services, for instance, in order to make our second level of management leadership training fit more for the Chinese locals, Dr. Joanne Zhang even made a special trip to the Netherlands to observe the relevant courses at our HQ, finally she managed to accomplish the adaptation of the course. And because of that, our five-day trainings were extremely well received by my colleagues.” “I joined Schouten China after a ‘brain-wash’.” Ms. Liu Xin Yue, the manager of Schouten China Shanghai office claimed in her speech, “I participated in the Training for Trainers course provided by Schouten China. The course changed me dramatically, and now I want to help others to see the good change in them through Schouten China trainings”.The Netherlands Consulate General Mr. Huub Buise was invited to the opening ceremony of Schouten China Shanghai Office and cut the ribbon for the event. More than one hundred training managers and senior managers from variety of organizations attended the ceremony on November 16. After that, many attendees chose to participate in the three demo trainings by Schouten China trainers to experience the unique way of training.Relevant InfoAbout Schouten & Nelissen Group and Schouten China