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Teething Pains in CSME

It appears that the region is experiencing severe “teething pains” with respect to CSME.

The latest news coming out of Trinidad is that they are not accepting the CARICOM Skills Certificate.  

This appears to run directly counter to the official word, detailed on Trinidad’s CSME website —www.csmett.com and in the CSME Update documents available there.

Hopefully, this is a temporary, beaureaucratic glitch, or a simple misunderstanding.

In either case, there are discussions taking place in the CaribHRForum newsgroup and in our company blog on this issue, which impacts all professionals throughout the region.  Both of these fora are accessible from links at the top of this page.

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CaribHRNews is launched

Framework Consulting is pleased to announce the launch of CaribHRNews, a Squidoo-hosted aggregator of the most recent internet-based news related to the Human Resources profession.

On the company website, the page may be accessed from the link on each page titled CaribHRForum.

President Francis Wade noted “We wanted a single place to find all the information related to the Human Resource industry and after months of searching for viable solution we found one that would not require intensive manual effort.”

The price to use the service is free to professionals, and the cost of its maintenance is being underwritten by Framework Consulting.

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April to June Blog Topics

The following are the headlines from my business blog , Chronicles from a Caribbean Cubicle.

The Power of Writing
Mastery and the Plateau
More on Loving “Work”
More Evidence of Friction Points
The Thwarting of the Creative Class
Worker Attitudes in Jamaica
Service Standards — no more
The Customer-Supplier Fallacy
An Opportunity for Greatness
Consultant’s Prices part 2
Top Class Caribbean Service for Every Class
I Don’t Care
The Dual Income Profession
CSME — Is It for Real?
A Speech Covered in the HRMATT newsetter
A Man I Know Who Followed His Heart
Doing The Work
Books I’m Reading Now – -April
An Excerpt from Tantie
Doing What is Loved
Beating Our Backs to Stop the New Plague

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Study to Include Trinidadian Executives

Framework Consulting is conducting a follow-up study to the Caribbean Acquisition Project (CAP), focusing on the relationship between Trinidadian executives and Jamaican workers. 

Our firm recently published a report from the Caribbean Acquisition Project (CAP) Phase 1, available at www.downloads.fwconsulting.com, for which the data was collected in 2001-2.  In the research we did then it was interesting to find that most of the Trinidadian executives working in Jamaica were surprised by the cultural differences that they found. 

Now, in 2006, we are keen to update our knowledge and would like to conduct phone interviews with Trinidadian executives (wherever they might be) who are willing to share insights about their experience living and working in Jamaica.

The data will be published in the form of a report that will summarize the findings, and hopefully shed some light on this issue and answer some of the many questions and concerns that Trinidadian executives have about working in Jamaica.

For further information, contact Francis Wade at Framework Consulting, [email protected] or 876-880-8653.

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Newsletter Re-Launch

We are pleased to announce that our newsletter is being reldesigned and relaunched, after a hiatus of a little over 2 years.

The newsletter is intended to compliment Francis Wade’s blog “Chronicles from a Caribbean Cubicle”  – http://blog.fwconsulting.com

While every recipient of  the prior list will be immediately added to the list of new recipients, there have been numerous changes in addresses, and we are accepting new subscribers by simply sending email to:  [email protected]
You can find the front pages of some of our past newsletters by clicking on the FWC Quarterly link at the far right of this page.

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Download link

We are lucky to have an excellent team that put together our website — eGlobalDesign.  I first ran into the principals when I helped them put together a stategy for their business.

They have (with their usual responsiveness) created a link to take users straight to the download link for this website:  http://downloads.fwconsulting.com

Thanks to them, someone who just wants to download a document can click on the above link and be taken directly to the right web-page.

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IMCJ Download

For those visitors that attended the Institute of Managemet Consultants – Jamaica (IMCJ) meeting last night:  a big welcome to you.

The presentation I gave last night (April 25, 2006)  is available by clicking on Ideas above, and then on either Download or Downloads on the new page.   

As I mentioned, if you are interested in an ongoing online dialogue, please visit my blog at http://blog.fwconsulting.com.  There is an entry that relates to last night’s topic:  CSME and the Consulting Professional.

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HRMATT Newsletter March 2006

A recent speech that I gave at a HRMATT meeting last year was covered in their March 2006 newsletter.  The title was CSME and the HR Implications for the Region.

The newsletter is available for download here.  See the fourth page.

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February – March Blogs

I have been quite active in my blog:  Chronicles from a Caribbean Cubicle

Here are the topics of the entries from the past few months.
February
Digicel Woes in Trinidad
Management, Caribbean Style
An Article that Resonates
Using Video to See the Man in the Mirror
Going Wiki
“Being Positive” — A Recipe for Failure
On Caribbean Acquisitions
CAP: An Early Surprise
CAP: Talent Development
The EMyth and the myths it dispels
Critical Thinking vs. Faithful Following
CAP:  A search for Expertise
CAP: A Difference in Perspective
CAP: A Sense of Regret
CAP: Planning for a Culture
CAP: Having a Powerful Dialogue
He Who Writes, Defines

March
Waiting and the Customer Experience
Why EVERY Serious Business Should Blog
Delivering a Custom Experience
Starting a New Conversation

Not to be outdone, my Moving Back to Jamaica blog has been getting more attention ( I think) or at least more comments, and has been cross-linked and referred to in a couple of interesting places.