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Lok Jack GSB Receives another United Way Award
For the third year running, Arthur Lok Jack Graduate School of Business has been awarded for its outstanding contribution to the United Way T&T (UWTT) National Campaign.
The business school captured the Award for “Excellence in Community Service” at the 2007 United Way T&T Campaign Closing Ceremony held recently at Angostura Ltd.
This year the school achieved an employee penetration rate of 95% - the highest amongst all participating companies. The contribution of the Lok Jack GSB’s staff was added to a community fund from which some 45 non-governmental organisations have accessed $7.3 million dollars within the last two and a half years.
United Way is a mechanism for mobilizing resources from the private sector and distributing those resources among non-governmental organisations working in communities all across Trinidad and Tobago.
Among the NGOs benefiting from United Way funding are Moms for Literacy, the Adult Literacy Tutors Association, the Bridge of Hope, the Hope Centre, the Tobago Literacy Unit and Families in Action.
Arthur Lok Jack Graduate School of Business became a UWTT member organisation in 2005 when it joined the Payroll Deduction Programme. This unique fundraising method seeks the support of the national workforce by encouraging employees to commit a weekly/monthly contribution via voluntary payroll deduction towards a community fund. UWTT then allocates the aggregated funds and monitors their use, ensuring that these are wise social investments.
Oxford – Lok Jack GSB Scenarios Programme
July 21st – 25th 2008
Are you a strategist, policy maker, planner, consultant, or executive who wants to learn how to engage with the future more effectively?
Do you need to explore different sets of risks and opportunities, and prepare appropriate strategies accordingly?
Then the Oxford – Lok Jack GSB Scenarios Programme might be the Executive Education Programme for you.
Scenario Planning is a strategy development tool designed for business and other operating environments characterised by both rapid change and high uncertainty over future direction.
The Oxford – Lok Jack GSB Scenarios Programme is designed by Oxford Saïd Business School and will be taught by distinguished Oxford Faculty. There will be guest Local Speakers.
Participants will receive an Oxford Saïd Business School Certificate (co-branded with Lok Jack GSB)
Comprehensive Portfolio Credit Risk Management
15th , 16th & 17th July 2008
This three day workshop will provide participants with tools to better assess, monitor and manage portfolio risk as well as the risk in individual borrowing relationships. Participants will also learn how to identify potential problem borrowers and manage problem lending relationships.
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Project Accounting
21st , 22ne & 23rd July, 2008
Project accounting not only captures all project costs and calculates project-to-date totals, but it also provides the information you need to evaluate project status, avoid runaway costs, ensure a profitable revenue stream, and manage
the events. Project accounting is dynamic from the point of view that it has a structure that evolves based on the activities which have to be addressed. The accountant plays a significant role in the execution of the
project; they are responsible for the accountability, the collection, and dissemination of the information relating to the project. The program allows participants to increase their depth of knowledge in key areas of project accounting; the case studies for the program will be directly related to the Project accounting issues that an individual may experience when managing projects.
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Project Risk Management
July 22, 23, 24, 2008
In this course, students learn to identify, analyze, and mitigate project risks. The course also explores risk response control and the development of lessons learned with the purpose of developing an organizational history for future projects. Through the use of lectures, exercises, a case study, and classroom discussion, students gain both practical knowledge that can be applied to current projects and basic knowledge that will aid in preparation for the PMP® certification examination
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OSHA 30hr General Industry
July 24 & 31; Aug – 7 & 14
The OSHA 30-hour General Industry Course will train and educate employers and employees in recognising, rectifying, preventing and avoiding unsafe and unhealthy working conditions. This programme will improve the skill and knowledge levels of personnel engaged in work related to the Occupational Safety and Health Act of Trinidad and Tobago (2004) (OSH).
This comprehensive training will provide participants with the knowledge needed to apply OSHA (USA) safety & health standards, policies and procedures to their organisation’s on-going safety & health program.
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Train the Trainer
25th 28th, 29th, 30th and 31st July, 2008
The aim of this programme is provide the skills and knowledge necessary to design and conduct a basic training workshop as well as knowledge of the training function and its administration to include today’s role of training, training needs assessment, training plans and evaluation.
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Management of Information Systems
July 9th, 10th & 11th, 2008
This course seeks to familiarize middle level and senior staff personnel with the digital tools and technologies needed to drive the demanding hardware, software and policy needs of a modern business enterprise. The course equips individuals with the knowledge of the Information Systems tools and infrastructure ‘behind the scenes’ that can help them better understand how Information Technology is being leveraged for competitive advantage and survival in a technologically driven environment.
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Coaching and Mentoring Skills for Managers
July 22nd, 23rd and 30th, 2008
July 9th, 10th & 11th, 2008
In this workshop, participants learn the organizational and individual benefits associated with employee performance coaching and counselling: they will examine opportunities for using coaching and mentoring in the workplace; they will discuss the personal attributes and behaviours of those who effectively practice employee coaching and counselling; they will have an opportunity to plan and execute, by use of role play, a coaching intervention. Workshop attendees will also be able to assess their competence in the areas of listening, providing feedback, and creating Personal Development Plans (PDPs) – three critical activities in the mentoring and coaching process.
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Effective Interviewing Skills
July 23-25, 2008
Overview
This Workshop will assist Human Resource Officers by providing a planned and systematic approach to recruitment and selection. This approach includes
- Knowledge of the job to be filled
- Matching the job with the candidate
- Attracting the most suitable persons for the job
- Induction and follow-up
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Research Methods
July 7-9, 2008
Overview
The workshop addresses methods of behavioral research focusing on the different stages that are essential in the process of obtaining results for decision-making purposes. In particular, these methods and related tools are examined in the context of research problems and questions that arise in various fields akin to the social sciences.
The workshop is designed to enable participants to develop research processes in stages. They are also expected to exchange their individual and group inputs with one another through the medium of formal presentations. Participants will also have a brief introduction in the use of SPSS as a tool for analysing statistical data.
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