Corporate trainers hone skills with workshop
Published: Sunday | March 22, 2009
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Sandra Glasgow (right), chief executive officer of the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ), chats with Anne Molyneux (left), director of CS International; Santiago Chaher (second left), consultant, Global Corporate Governance Forum, International Finance Corporation, and Karl Williams of Sagicor Life Jamaica, during welcome cocktails at a train-the-trainer programme hosted by the PSOJ in association with the World Bank at the Spanish Court Hotel in New Kingston on Thursday. The seminar was scheduled to end yesterday at the Terra Nova All Suite Hotel in St Andrew.
Eighteen trainers from Jamaica and the rest of the region yesterday completed a three-day workshop in corporate governance at the Terra Nova All Suite Hotel in St Andrew.
The Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) and the World Bank conducted the workshop, which was aimed at enhancing director-training capacity in the region and helping participants become familiar with and learn how to use the Corporate Governance Board Leadership Training Resources Kit produced by the World Bank.
The tool kit was developed to serve the growing need for curriculum and teaching methodologies relevant to corporate-governance training. The workshop was geared at helping participants develop the knowledge base and skill sets needed to lead director-education programmes that reflect international best practices adapted to regional trends and country-specific needs, read a release from the PSOJ.
" ... This whole thing (workshop) is really to ensure that we remain internationally competitive because if our companies are not practising good corporate governance, then they won't be internationally competitive. It really comes down to international competitiveness," Sandra Glasgow, chief executive officer of the PSOJ, told Sunday Business.
Workshop features
The workshop provided trainers with lectures, case studies and exercises to develop directors' boardroom skills and encouraged participants to share and discuss their own experiences. Trainers were exposed to new adult-learning techniques.
The workshop was led by United Kingdom-based Anne Molyneux, a consultant in financial market regulation and corporate governance; Dr Mary Jo Larson, principal of FlexAbility International, based in Costa Rica; Santiago Chaher, a consultant to the International Finance Corporation, based in Washington, D.C.; and Glasgow, who was trained by The Forum as a trainer in the use of the resources kit.
Twelve Jamaicans representing public-sector agencies, including the Ministry of Finance and The Public Service, Financial Services Commission, private-sector companies and the University of the West Indies (UWI) participated in the workshop. Six of the participants were from Trinidad and Tobago and Barbados, representing private-sector companies and the UWI's Cave Hill and St Augustine campuses.
