ACCREDITED SEMINARS
Rapidly changing global conditions are placing increasing pressure on island communities worldwide to adopt new ways of working. To address the inevitable ramifications of these challenges on the business strategy and operational planning of island-based organisations, we now offer the following CPD accredited professional development seminars.
Island Resilience (Impacts & Risks)
Primary objectives of this half day CPD accredited Seminar are to:
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Understand the risks and impacts of latest global conditions on islands and business decision-making,
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Recognise the wide range of island resilience and vulnerability factors and the importance of each to the sustainable development of the community and to the local business environment,
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Realise the weaknesses now of GDP as a measure of island economic development and proposals to move away from this measure, and
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Appreciate the current strategic focus of island governments in the context of resilience and the island's position on the economic life cycle.​​
Single Economic Sector Dependency
(Island Challenges & Options)
The primary objectives of this half day CPD accredited Seminar are to:
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Register the importance of monitoring external trends in relation to long-term island economic sustainability and success,
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Appreciate how important contingency planning is for island-based businesses located in an island jurisdiction that is totally dependent upon just one economic sector, and
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Stimulate ideas on how the private sector can work with the public and third sectors in achieving a sustainable and diverse island economy in the future.​
READ HERE for full Programme details. Dates for the Guernsey and Jersey seminar events to be released shortly.