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AUTHOR: TONY MANN
These four blogs follow the real-life conversations between a team leader and facilitation expert. They discuss an upcoming workshop and what objectives this workshop can help the team leader meet.
PM4NGOs gladly announce Caritas Nigeria as new training partner.
Written by: Caritas Nigeria
Caritas Nigeria – also referred to as the Catholic Caritas Foundation (CCFN), was established in 2010 as a development agency of the Catholic Church. With a focus on Integral Human development, her interventions are anchored through six key thematic areas namely: Health, Agriculture and Livelihoods, Good governance, Emergency/Humanitarian Response, Anti-human Trafficking; and Institutional
Capacity-strengthening. Her mission is to stimulate and drive development into every segment of the Nigerian society irrespective of race, religion or class.
Caritas Nigeria leverages the existing structure of the Church to achieve her mission. This comprises of hundreds of healthcare facilities and schools, thousands of communities and a huge network of local church partners and institutions in over 56 dioceses of the country. Beyond this, Caritas Nigeria
belongs to an international confederation of about 165 Caritas member nations (Caritas Internationalis) whose common goal is to carry out development interventions across the globe. Through these, she is better-positioned to effectively collaborate and share knowledge at local and international levels.
PM4NGOs gladly announce Bond as new training partner.
Written by: Bond
Bond is the UK network for organisations working in international development. During these increasingly difficult times, charities and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) are finding it even harder to achieve their missions. We connect, strengthen and champion a dynamic network of diverse civil society organisations to help eradicate global poverty, inequality and injustice.
Bond was founded in 1993 with 61 members. Now we unite nearly 450 organisations, ranging from small specialist charities to large international NGOs with a world-wide presence.
We’ve been developing the careers of professionals in the international development sector for over 25 years through our engaging and highly practical courses. Every year, thousands of individuals from the development and humanitarian community around the world choose to improve their skills, knowledge and expertise through our training. As well as our project management courses, we also run training in safeguarding, monitoring & evaluation, funding and advocacy and transparency.
During the coronavirus (Covid-19) crisis, we are continuing our commitment to support your learning and development. Up to December 2020, we’ll be delivering all our courses online through our exciting new Bond learning platform. Our online courses include live facilitated and interaction sessions (using Zoom), as well as individual and group activities.
We can also deliver any of our courses bespoke for your organisation.
Our project management courses are:
Afghanistan Project Management Center is a pioneering professional services center, providing project management services, internationally recognized certification programs, and demand-based trainings, for organizations and individuals in Afghanistan.
APMC training methodologies are based on adult learning models with a focus on practical realities of the social and business context in Afghanistan – enabling learners to set practical connections between their theoretical knowledge and real situations they are exposed regularly in the field.
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Although Pyramid Learning is a new partner, its Co-Founders – Mike Culligan and John Cropper – are old friends of PM4NGOs. In fact, Mike and John wrote the first version of PMD Pro back in 2010 and actually created PM4NGOs itself.
So in many ways, it is not ‘welcome’ but ‘welcome home’.
Mike and John have a simple mission for Pyramid Learning. They want to make quality learning appropriate, accessible and actionable. In other words, they want to help those doing good, do even better”.
The necessity for lifelong learning is well-established. Having become certified, fresh learning experiences help professionals to maintain their knowledge and keep up-to-date with the latest developments. Many professional qualifications are no longer valid for life, and holders must demonstrate Continuous Professional Development (CPD) in order to retain their credentials. PMD Pro+ offers a range of activities for just this purpose.
The PMD Pro and Program DPro certifications help you to gain and affirm knowledge of project and program management in the development sector. Becoming certified is a great achievement. But don´t stop there!
APEX Global (www.apexgloballearning.com), one of the Philippines’ leading learning solutions providers, announced that they have partnered with PM4NGO, an international NGO that promotes project management in the international development sector, to provide courses tailored towards the said sectors starting with the PMD Pro Certification.
“The development landscape here in the Philippines has grown significantly in the past few years.”, said Karthik Subburaman, ASSIST Asia’s Regional Director, one of APEX Global’s clients. “I have worked with project managers who are well versed with several international PM frameworks but are unfamiliar with how the development sector operates and carries out projects”
PM4NGOs gladly announce Weircapacity as new training partner.
Written by: Weircapacity
Over the years,
we have executed projects in small towns and rural communities across Africa
and found that a significant number of projects fail due to inadequate project
management capacity. The peculiar nature of the development sector and the
areas in which they operate makes it imperative for organizations to build
in-house capacity in project management, with a focus on development projects.
Written by: Game Changer Team
PM4NGOs gladly announce Game Changer as our new training partner.
Welcome to Game Changer! We are excited to officially introduce ourselves on the PM4NGOs blog and begin our partnership in making the world a better place. We are a global training organization and consultancy, working hard to support NGOs, charities and other development organizations in their work. Our mission is to accelerate positive change by consulting, coaching and delivering training programs to the highest quality standard. We have worked across the globe including the UK, Kenya and Bangladesh and have seen the incredible results our clients have achieved by applying the high-impact principles of PMD Pro on their projects. Perhaps seeing these results is the most rewarding part of our work and what keeps us so passionate as a team.
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This article was originally published on Humentum by Education Technology Insights.
According to the 2017 State of the Industry report from the Association for Talent Development, in 2016 the average employer spent $1273 per person per year on professional development, representing more than 100 billion dollars. A 2010 McKinsey study estimated that only 25 percent of spending on training led to measured results. This means roughly the GDP of Delaware worth of training each year leads to no measurable results.
This is simply not acceptable. As learning and development professionals, we have a responsibility to support not just learning but learning transfer and improved results in the workplace.
So, it’s important to ask a few questions:
These are big questions, but the proposed answer is quite simple: support learning retention. Granted, this is not a magic bullet but it’s a step in the right direction. And it can be done with a tool we already use every day, making this approach accessible and effective. Continue reading “The Importance of Learning Retention Programs”
