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SOCIÉTÉ GÉNÉRALE ALGÉRIE

Making culture
a shared practice.

Giving people an active role in the culture they are asked to carry.

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Success Days participants raising red answer cards during a shared quiz.
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Client
Société Générale Algérie
Sector
Banking & financial services
Our role
Talent, culture & employee experience
Market
Algeria

In a bank with a national network, culture is tested far from headquarters. It shows up in how someone is welcomed, how a manager responds to customer feedback, and how a team understands the responsibilities of its work. Shared values matter when people can use them in those moments.

Société Générale Algérie wanted to strengthen that connection while working toward its ambition of becoming a Best Place to Work. Our work moved across talent management, onboarding, customer experience, compliance and internal communication. Each project addressed a different part of the organization, but the challenge was the same: give people a more active role in the culture they were being asked to carry.

Inside the story
A shared framework

Giving the talent ambition a framework

An employer ambition needs a path through the whole employee experience. We developed an end-to-end talent management framework organized around four connected stages: attracting people, developing them, retaining them and recognizing their contribution.

We then built a workshop for the HR team to work through the framework themselves. Guided questions and a game format pushed the discussion from broad intentions toward choices about who the bank wanted to attract, how people could grow, and what would make them proud to stay. The framework gave Société Générale Algérie a way to pursue its Best Place to Work ambition through decisions it could examine and develop.

The first six months

Designing the first six months as a journey

Joining a large bank means learning its systems and finding a place within its culture. We worked on the onboarding process as a journey that would continue beyond the first day.

The welcome handbook gave new colleagues a practical introduction to Société Générale Algérie: its history, organization, values, opportunities and everyday expectations. It was one part of a wider process intended to help people understand both how the bank works and where they could contribute.

The welcome handbook spread presenting employee listening resources.
Making the organization easier to navigate.
The welcome handbook spread placing employees at the centre of the bank’s priorities.
A clearer picture of the employee’s place in the organization.
Explore the welcome handbook · 6 spreads
A moment of belonging

Giving new colleagues a moment to belong

At the end of that six-month journey, we created and organized Success Days. The two-day event recognized what new colleagues had already learned and gave them space to connect that experience to the bank’s values: team spirit, responsibility, innovation and commitment.

The program made participation central. Colleagues worked through situations that called for judgment, explored how their roles contributed to the bank’s wider vision, shared stories from their first months and tested their knowledge together. Success Days turned the close of onboarding into a moment of recognition and connection across teams.

The original Société Générale Success Days welcome kit.
The Success Days welcome kit.
A close-up of the Success Days welcome card and printed materials.
The welcome message, carried into the experience.
From design to experience

Ideas built to be used,
discussed and remembered.

The concept
The Values in Action exercise from the Success Days concept deck.
In practice
The original printed Success Days scenario and response worksheets.

Values in Action — original exercise design and the materials used by participants.

The concept
The ideal banker avatar board from the Success Days concept deck.
In practice
A participant adding a card to the shared ideal-banker board.

The ideal banker — a concept that became a shared, physical exercise.

The concept
The Wall of the Future concept from the original Success Days deck.
In practice
A participant writing on the Wall of the Future at Success Days.

The Wall of the Future — from a designed ritual to individual contributions.

A wide photograph of the Success Days room during a facilitated activity.
A room arranged for active learning.
Explore the original concept · 6 visuals
Turning evidence into decisions

Putting customer evidence in managers’ hands

Société Générale Algérie’s annual customer satisfaction study contained information managers could act on. We designed its results reveal as a working session for more than 400 managers and senior leaders at the Sheraton Resort.

Instead of asking participants only to listen to a presentation, we built a gamified system around the findings. Teams examined data cards, discussed what the results meant for the brand, services and customer touchpoints, then proposed and voted on actions. The format helped managers engage with the evidence together and leave with clearer priorities for improving the customer experience.

The original six-stage customer satisfaction workshop process and game materials.
From research findings to prioritized actions.
400+Managers and senior leaders

Working with the findings.
Discussing priorities.
Proposing actions.

Explore the facilitator guide
Learning across the network

Making compliance easier to engage with

Across a retail network of more than 100 branches, CPLE compliance awareness had to reach people working in different places and roles. We organized the training in a gamified format that asked participants to engage with the material.

The aim was to make an essential subject easier to discuss and remember across the network. The format gave teams a shared way to work through expectations that matter in their daily practice.

100+
Branches in the retail network

A shared learning format for a national organization.

Continuity

Keeping the conversation alive between major moments

Events and workshops can create momentum, but employees also need regular ways to hear from the organization and take part in its life. We organized and supplied content for Société Générale Algérie’s internal communication channels to support that ongoing engagement.

This work connected the larger programs to a more continuous employee experience. Talent initiatives, shared priorities and organizational messages had places to live beyond the events where they were introduced.

The shift

What changed

The work gave Société Générale Algérie several ways to put its ambitions into practice.

HR teams had a framework they could work with. New colleagues had a fuller path into the bank. Managers could turn customer findings into proposed actions. Branch teams could engage with compliance through a shared experience, while internal channels kept the wider conversation moving.

Together, these projects made culture something more people could participate in, shape and carry into their work.

A group photograph of Success Days participants in the workshop room.
The new colleagues brought together at Success Days.
Scope of work

#talentmanagement #employerbrand #onboarding #employeeexperience #corporateevents #workshopdesign #gamification #customerexperience #compliancetraining #internalcomms

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