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The guests were welcomed in a traditional Polish manner by the ladies-in-waiting. Splendour to the meeting was added by the knight fight show organized in the courtyard. After the show, the guests gathered in the Acoustic Hall where, surrounded by Christmas decorations, they were greeted by the President of Mota-Engil Central Europe, Mr. Fiel Barbosa and Mrs. Katarzyna Dobrzańska-Junco – the Manager of the Marketing, PR, Communication and Administration Department, who conducted the meeting. The meeting could not do without the traditional sharing the wafer and wishes accompanied by highland tunes played by a music band from the Tatra Mountains. After this romantic part of the meeting, the guests moved to the catering halls where, drinking a glass of wine and eating delicious supper, they could talk to their colleagues. The meeting was also a great occasion to summarize the two photo contests carried out by Mota-Engil Central Europe and to award prizes to winners. There were also thanks addressed to all the employees who supported the Christmas project under the name ”Szlachetna Paczka”, carried out in our company and its branches in Poland, which aims at satisfying the needs of the poorest families in the region. Those who were interested had the opportunity to take part in a guided tour of interesting museum exhibitions. Like each year, the Christmas gift lottery aroused lots of excitement and joy among the participants.
The Christmas Meeting was closed with thanks, and the guests left the castle, accompanied by highland music.
We invite you for watching a short video of the Christmas Meeting that is available at the link belov: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SQn2LZe10Y
5th International Alpine Skiing Championships of Mota-Engil Central Europe S.A.
Just like each year in the winter season, the already 5th International Alpine Skiing Championships of Mota-Engil Central Europe S.A. were organized. The competition took place on February 19th in Kluszkowce, on the slope of the Wdżar hill. Although it was freezing, the atmosphere of the event was very warm and bright. Just after the winners were awarded prizes, there was a bonfire and everyone celebrated the get-together. 150 people participated in the competition, including the employees and their families. The competition in all groups was stiff. This year, the podium was occupied by:
Group: men - employees age group 44-63
1 miejsce: Jacek Nalberczak
2 miejsce: Wiesław Biernat
3 miejsce: Kazimierz Sokołowski
Group: women – employees age group 50-60
1 miejsce: Teresa Balawejder
Group: Children-age group 4-8
1 miejsce: Radosław Wysocki
2 miejsce: Lidia Słowik
Group : Children – age group 4-12
1. Aleksandra Wysocka
2. Dagmara Rosek
3. Aleksandra Słowik
Group: men – employees age group 25-29
1. Jan Chrzanowski
2. Przemysław Chrzanowski
3. Marek Gierlicki
Group: men – employees age group 30-38
1. Słowik Łukasz
2. Radosław Turski
3. Wysocki Krzysztof
Group: employees – women age group 25 – 58
1. Joanna Szczerba
2. Judit Lombay
3. Katarzyna Czopek
Group: men – snowboard
1. Krzysztof Miduch
2. Piotr Górszczyk
3. Przemysław Zacharias
1. Kamila Mizelińska
2. Justyna Szczurek
3. Maria Hrehorowicz
4th Staff Conference of Mota-Engil Central Europe S.A.
On March 4th, in the Manggha Centre of Japanese Art and Technology, the 4th Staff Conference of Mota-Engil Central Europe S.A. was organized. During the meeting, the following, selected contracts were presented: construction of the Przemyśl by-pass, construction of the S3 and S8 expressways or construction of underground car parks in Wrocław. Moreover, crucial aspects of further development of the Company were discussed. The subjects tackled included: the balance of the Company’s activity in the year 2010, commercial activity, investments for the year 2011, time management and building the corporate image. There was also a presentation concerning the targets and challenges for the years to come as well as new environmental and diversification opportunities, all completed with movies on the aggregate mine in Górka Sobocka, multimedia presentation and a movie summarizing the year 2010.
Christmas meeting of the employess of Mota-Engil Central Europe S.A.
On December 18th 2010, a traditional annual Christmas meeting of the employees of Mota-Engil Central Europe S.A. took place. The meeting was organized in the Benedictine Abbey in Tyniec, near Kraków. As usual, the attendance was high. The ceremony passed off in a pleasant and moody atmosphere, and was filled with such highlights as: prize giving to the winners of the 3rd International Photo Contest of Mota-Engil Central Europe S.A., gift lottery or the opportunity to have one’s caricature drawn by caricature artists.
Road foremen trainings
On July 26th, MECE launched its new program of road foremen trainings. 5 groups of participants take part in the program. The participants are subject to 6 training modules: land surveying, laboratory, equipment, site organization, reading the program of works and project as well as quality and OHS. The trainings shall take place mainly in Balice and Skarżysko-Kamienna. The entire programme shall be completed in December 2010.
III Mota-Engil Central Europe S.A. Staff Conference
The conference organized for the third time in the Manggha Centre of Japanese Art and Technology, was dedicated to the summary of the year, verification of last year’s intents and making the employees acquainted with plans for the next year. During the meeting which took place at the end of February, the change of the company’s name into Mota-Engil Central Europe S.A. was strongly emphasized.
This event takes a very important place in the annual schedule of meetings. It allows the representatives of strategic organizational units to share their achievements as well as long-term and short-term targets with the participants.
The presented list of crucial and biggest contracts executed in 2009 proved the growing dominance of the company and its contribution to the development of the network of Polish roads and motorways. In order to improve the company’s position in the market, in 2009 bids in 262 tenders were submitted (a 24% increase when compared to last year) and the number of the awarded contracts within the infrastructure increased by 62%.
As for the organizational activities, establishment of the Shared Services Centre, aiming to increase the efficiency of processes by means of their standardization and complex management of financial, fiscal, accounting and HR operations in the Group companies was an innovative and important MECE’s undertaking. Apart from the aforementioned, targets for this year include starting a new website, one for all countries.
Another achievement, this time connected with quality, safety and environment protection is obtaining one more ISO certificate and implementation of the Integrated Management System. Moreover, several educational campaigns were carried out, like the one connected with work at height and protection against falls.
Active School
On the 15th of January, the last meeting within the Project entitled Active School “International Management Programme,” carried our for Mota-Engil Central Europe, took place. During three months of its duration, the programme was gathering 35 persons from middle and top management as well as Young Talents from our region (Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania) who participated in training sessions which were held every 2 weeks in Kraków.
Active School is one of the greatest projects of Mota-Engil Group, aimed at development of the employees through enhancement of critical competences both for our business activity and for their own professional development. The programme is conducted in cooperation with the Faculty of Economics and Corporate Sciences of Portuguese Catholic University. Until now, the programme was carried out in Portugal and Angola.
The goal of the programme is reinforcement of the culture of sharing knowledge by the employees who belong to different generations and come from various countries in which ME Group pursues its activity.
Within the Active School programme, in Kraków took place 7 training sessions dedicated to management and leadership, of broad spectrum of subject matter. The mentioned topics related to economics, strategic management, balanced scorecard, financial and economic analysis and marketing in the face of global competitiveness, human resources management through goals, leadership in global context as well as negotiations and management in multicultural environment.
Moreover, the task of the participants, divided in 7 teams, was to elaborate projects which could contribute to the increase of ME CE in a fast, profitable and balanced manner, and which, at the same time, would provide ambitious assumptions for the improvement of organizational processes in the company and which would also provide the possibility of development for our Staff. Thanks to such initiatives ME Central Europe would become the center for perfection in the Group as well as it would influence its global development.
During the last meeting, one winning Project was selected from among the presented ones, the implementation of which shall be a priority. However, some of the other projects are also of great innovativeness which would add value to the company and which shall be taken into account in terms of their implementation.
The intention of the Group is continuation of similar initiatives through which one of the four pillars of the strategic plan of the Group, namely, Ambition 2013 – development of human resources , is implemented.
MAP Project
On the 16 nd of July 2010 in Park Inn Hotel of Cracow took place the assessment center session of the second edition of MAP Program. MAP is a corporate project for talent identification within a Group. The MAP Project reaches three main goals: maps a set of critical competencies for the Group, allows to know the Employees’ professional expectations and interests, and the most important – creates context which allow the development of the Employees’ potential.
This context was organized within the assessment center session which gathered employees of Mota-Engil Group from different countries: Poland, Portugal, Czech Republic, Malawi and others. The participants were divided into 8 groups and competed between each other in Topaz Management Simulation ( simulation of complex management of real company which included Finance, Economy, Human Resources, Marketing and Production aspects).
The whole MAP project which consisted on various steps like information sessions, individual interviews with Heidrick & Struggles consultants and assessment session, will soon finish with individual interviews of the direct superior of each participant. The present edition from the region of Central Europe shall last until September.
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