SEMINARS & WORKSHOPS
J.C. Hutchinson, minister without portfolio in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries (MICAF), at right, leans in to hear MICAF Chief Technical Director Dermon Spence (left), at the National Irish Potato Stakeholders Seminar held at Guy’s Hill, St Catherine, on October 12, 2016. Acting chief executive officer of the Rural Agricultural Development Authority, Peter Thompson, is at centre. The man in the background is unidentified. OCTOBER 19 Jamaica Employers Federation workshop ‘Developing Effective Business Conversation Skills’, October 19-20, at JEF Training Centre, 2A Ruthven Road, Kingston, 8:30 a.m. info@jamaicaemployers.com
OCTOBER 20 Make Your Mark Consultants workshop ‘Conducting Workplace Investigations’, at Knutsford Court Hotel, 16 Chelsea Avenue, New Kingston, 8 a.m. info@makeyourmark consultants.com
OCTOBER 20 Hugh Lawson Shearer Trade Union Education Institute public forum ‘Public Sector workers: Expectations Beyond March 2017’, at HLSTUEI Lecture Room, University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Kingston, 1 p.m. hlstuei@open.uwi.edu
OCTOBER 23 Jamaica Stock Exchange eCampus online securities course.astarte.daley @jamstockex.com
OCTOBER 24 Inter-American Development Bank international entrepreneurship conference FOROMIC 2016 – Creating Opportunities through Financial Inclusion’, October 24-26, at Montego Bay Convention Centre, Rose Hall, Montego Bay. shellyannh@iadb.org
OCTOBER 25 Jamaica Employers Federation workshop ‘Leading with Emotional Intelligence’, at JEF Training Centre, 2A Ruthven Road, Kingston, 8:30 a.m. info@jamaicaemployers.com
OCTOBER 26 20 Twenty Strategies Consulting forum ‘Small Shops BIG Business’, at the Cecil Charlton Hall, Mandeville, Manchester, 8:30 a.m. 20twentystrategies @gmail.com
OCTOBER 26 Eclipse Personnel & Management Services Limited seminar on resume and cover letter writing, at Medallion Hall Hotel, Hope Road, Kingston, 8:30 a.m. eclipsepersonnel@gmail.com
OCTOBER 26 Human Resource Management Association of Jamaica workshop ‘Types of Employment Contracts—What’s Good for Your Organisation’. hrmaj@cwjamaica.com