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October 07, 2009 - NEW YORK - Microsoft has engaged Face The Music as an integral part of it’s two-year program for new hires, beginning with an energetic success at the Europe, Middle East, and Africa regional program in Amsterdam recently. Known as MACH (Microsoft Academy for New Hires), the program supports new, high-potential employees in learning to navigate the internal geography of the software giant, developing leadership skills, forming career plans and getting them on the fast track to success and productivity.
“The difficulty with many training programs,” a source inside Microsoft shared, “is that the demands on these young people are so many, diverse, and urgent, that the value of the programs can be lost when they go back to the hustle and bustle of the job. Face The Music’s experiential learning approach helps bring the insights home in a more memorable way, supporting implementation on the job.”
Face The Music’s role as a tool for organizational and personal development in corporations has been expanding over the past few years. They have been included in training, leadership development, post-merger integration, and strategic planning programs with the likes of Bank of America, Pfizer, Unisys, Roche Diagnostics, Con Ed, Ernst & Young, McNeal Consumer and Specialty Pharma, JPMorganChase, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, FedEx, and Cargill among others.
"Face The Music” events are carefully orchestrated to establish a culture of risk-taking, teamwork, innovation, and enjoyment through powerful and dramatic musical interactive programs that put the participants in charge of the outcome, and through that ownership create something unique and powerful that can be applied back on the job.
About Face The Music:
Face The Music uses a variety of musical genres as a toolkit to help organizations become higher performing. Described by CNN as "In tune with the needs of corporate America," FTM has done events in the US, Canada, Europe, and the Middle East with clients like GE, Pfizer, Pepperdine University, Novartis, Macy’s, Daimler, Target, Novo Nordisk, Club Med, General Mills, and Bristol-Myers Squibb. More information is available at www.facethemusicblues.com.
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