SEMINAR PROGRAMME
Rapidly changing global conditions are placing increasing pressure on island communities worldwide to adopt new ways of working. To address the inevitable ramifications on island-based organisations as a result of these challenges, we now offer the following professional development seminars specifically focusing on business strategy and operational planning implications.
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 their position on the economic life cycle.​​
Single Economic Sector Dependency
Primary objectives of this half day Seminar (CPD accreditation pending) 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 primarily dependent upon 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.
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