Primeast Malawi facilitate Transformational Leadership and Children's Rights Training

Submitted TUE, 18/05/2010

Primeast Malawi's Christophe Horvath and Sam Matemba were proud to be lead trainer/facilitator and co-facilitator for the "Transformational Leadership from the Inside Out" training convened for district commissioners and chief executives drawn from all assemblies in Malawi this April. The training was designed to help district commissioners play an important role in Malawi’s enhancement of children rights by including their issues in District Development Plans.

Christophe tells us:

"On the last day, which focused on putting children at the centre of development in Malawi, I was co-facilitator doing group exercises on children’s rights and the rights-based approach to development in conjunction to the presentations given by both Edge Kanyongolo (Dean of the faculty of Law of Chancellor’s College, Zomba) and Mayke Huijbregts, UNICEF Chief of Social Policy in Malawi".

The event received extensive exposure in Malawi's media (follow this link for coverage in Malawi's The Times Group newspapers).

Tercon’s Mike Osredker to serve as group leader of the ASBC’s human capital working group

Submitted MON, 12/04/2010

Mike Osredker, Tercon Consulting’s Director of Business Development and Global Marketing and Chair of The American Small Business Coalition’s (ASBC) Executive Committee, will lead the organization’s new Human Capital Working Group.

Founded in 2004, the ASBC is an effective and engaging member-driven community of trusted individuals and organizations from government, industry and academia, located in the U.S. and abroad, with an exclusive focus on the development of actionable intelligence and key relationships to support the mission requirements of federal, state, and local government agencies.

As Mike explains,

“The Human Capital Working Group, part of the Market Intelligence and Education Committee, will consist of firms operating in the training, facilitation, leadership development, coaching, and change management fields. Our mission is to support information-gathering and relationship development that leads to direct and teaming-based business opportunities in support of human capital initiatives at federal, state and local agencies.

“We will engage officials from government and industry involved in supporting human resources management issues, initiatives of the Federal Chief Human Capital Officers Council, and other activities related to the Government’s selecting, developing, training, and managing a high-quality, productive workforce".

To find out more, please see Tercon's website.

Primeast make the news in Mauritius

Submitted FRI, 09/04/2010

Following another successful tour to Southern Africa under the auspices of the British Council, Primeast deputy chairman and GLA head of Talent Liberation Clive Wilson and Christophe Horvath, who heads up Primeast (Southern Africa), have made the papers in Mauritius.

NewsNow, the first English-language daily internet newspaper in Mauritius, starts its report "Double act with an eye for talent" as follows:

"Two unique men with an extraordinarily distinctive approach to corporate success made rounds of the island recently as part of the British Council Management Express Programme in collaboration with the Mauritius Employers’ Federation (MEF)."

To read more about their exploits, follow this link and look at pages 8 - 9.

Primeast now an ILM Approved Centre

Submitted THU, 18/03/2010

Primeast has successfully achieved ILM (Institute of Leadership and Management - Europe’s largest management and leadership awarding body) Centre status, joining the largest awarding body for leadership and management qualifications in the UK and a global network of over 2,000 accredited centres.

Having completed a rigorous approval process to achieve ILM status, Primeast can now offer accredited qualifications in leadership and coaching. Primeast MD and GLA Director of Europe, Middle East and Africa Russell Evans says:

“We would strongly encourage anyone in a position of leadership or management to consider taking an ILM qualification. By investing in management development, organisations can ensure that their leaders are confident in their abilities and able to lead employees through the challenging times ahead. Nurturing effective leaders through management development is the single most cost-effective investment.”

For more information on the Institute of Leadership and Management, please see their website.

To find out how Primeast, as both a GLA member and an Institute of Leadership and Management Approved Centre, can help your organisation, please contact them directly.

Primeast and Vantage Partners Boston start new relationship

Submitted THU, 04/03/2010

Five members of the Primeast team recently met new colleagues from Vantage Partners, Boston, as part of a new business partnership. The new relationship was spawned when Vantage won a prestigious global contract to provide negotiation skills workshops for an oil and gas client – Primeast was recommended to them to provide experienced facilitators across Europe. Vantage Partners is the world’s premier provider of executive education in the fields of negotiation skills and conflict resolution and originally grew out of the world renowned Harvard Negotiation Project.

The photo (left) shows Primeast with Gabriella Salvatore and Bruce Patton from Boston; and other Vantage colleagues from Nigeria, Uruguay and New Zealand.