Benefits of getting involved

 

Participants in CEOs Without Borders enjoy an exiting and profitable experience and get to help create jobs and wealth in struggling countries. CWB enables participants to:

 

  • Discover new opportunities: Some Sub-Saharan African countries offer great business opportunities often overlooked by investors who want to expand their business abroad. Our programs allow participants to learn about these markets and get in contact with relevant local business people and institutions.

  • Learn: Many markets in the developed world are becoming increasingly saturated with excess supply and suspended demand ing prices and profit margins down. Companies in United States and Europe can learn a lot by operating in a resource-scarce environment and learning optimization strategies from developing countries to help them cut costs and succeed at home.

  • Improve image & reputation: Participating in innovative and original projects that help the world's poorest improves your and your company’s image and builds reputation among your collaborators and employees in both local and foreign markets. Participants will receive financial information as well as documentary and audio-visual material from the projects they support so that they can share their experiences with their employees, shareholders and clients.

Those companies that encourage their top-executives (as individuals or in groups) to participate in cooperation also can benefit from:

  • Improved internal dynamics: Interaction between employees in different departments and levels of hierarchy beyond the working environment improves corporate morale and cooperation.

  • Training and testing employees’ management abilities: Management abilities required to higher ranks cannot be easily provided through theoretical study; they are developed with practice. By participating in our programs, future managers can practice and develop their abilities, and companies can observe the results.

  • Investing in groups: Usually, in order to maximize the return on investment, companies with limited resources choose to invest in individuals: Future managers are appointed and afterwards receive training in order to acquire managerial skills. On the other hand, investing in groups (appointing managers from a trained group of employees) is more advantageous for numerous reasons. The employer has more information about employees’ skills; it stimulates competition among employees; having more than the strictly necessary number of prepared employees diminishes probability of a shortage of managerial resources when (unexpectedly) needed. Our programs are economic training tools that allow companies with limited resources to invest in groups without bearing the high costs usually associated with such investment.