Solving Problems in Strategic Planning and Productivity
On October 10th, I will be giving a speech to the Project Management Institute, here in Kingston. The topic will be CSME Networking for the Project Management Professional.
Location: Jamaica Pegasus
Time: 6:00pm
The notes for the presentation will be include in my blog ahead of the date.
The flyer for the event can be found under the News menu item at top.
Francis Wade, President of Framework Consulting, will be speaking at the upcoming HRMAJ conference on November 16-19 at the Sunset Jamaica Grande Resort and Spa, Ocho Rios, Jamaica, on the topic: Using Technology on the Cutting Edge to Create Cross-Regional Networks.
In this blog entry, I talk about the need for a Trinidadian Jamaican Chamber of Commerce, with one located in Port of Spain and the other in Kingston.
Today happens to be Trinidadian Independence Day, so the timing for this idea seems to be just about right.
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.
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.
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
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.
For further information, contact Francis Wade at Framework Consulting, [email protected] or 876-880-8653.
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.
Ilsa Duverney, a well-known HR consultant in Jamaica covers a speech given by Francis Wade, President of Framework Consulting, in the Jamaica Daily Gleaner.
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.