THE JAMAICA Employers' Federation launched its annual Management Development Convention at their head office in St. Andrew last week.
This year's convention takes place from May 11 - 14, 2006 at the Sunset Jamaica Grande in Ocho Rios. The JEF Convention is now in its 24th year and now attracts regional participation.
President of the JEF Mrs. Audrey Hinchcliffe in her opening remarks said the "primary objectives of the convention are to stimulate growth and development in companies by energising and inspiring participants and by introducing new ideas". She also spoke of the new dimensions the convention will be taking to make it applicable to all who attend, even those who have participated in past years.
The Jamaica Employers' Federation Convention has grown considerably in the past six years, with the number of participants increasing from just over 100 participants in 1999 to over 500 at the 2005 convention. JEF Convention 2006 chairman Mr. Barry Robinson highlighted the different learning tracks for Convention 2006.
The JEF convention has several seminars & workshops which includes such learning tracks as "Turning Good Managers into Great Leaders", "Entre-preneurship, Business Strategy and Management" and "The CSME, Opportunity or Threat?"
Mr. Robinson said presenters for Convention 2006 include Mr. Jeff Russell, co-director of Russell Consulting out of the United States of America and Mr. L. Anthony Watkins an accomplished organisational development consultant from Trinidad & Tobago who will be the keynote speaker at the opening ceremony.
Honourable Aloun N'Dombet Assamba in her address stated that the JEF had distinguished itself as a supportive partner and advocate for its members and the wider society.
EXAMPLES OF THE VISION
She highlighted the Jamaica Employers' Federations' launch of the Jamaica Youth Employment Network and Young Entrepreneurs Association as examples of the vision of the JEF. In endorsing the JEF Convention 2006 Minister Assamba noted the practicability of the services that the JEF can provide via the convention.
She recommended the JEF convention to all young Jamaican entrepreneurs, whether you are young in age or young in the sense of your business or entrepreneurial journey.
Endorsements to the JEF Convention also came from COK General Manager Mrs. Brenda Cuthbert who stated that the convention provides an opportunity to acquire new knowledge as well as motivation and to revisit some common problems with fresh insight.
The director of sales administration for Sunset Resorts Miss Charmaine Deane expressed her pleasure at once again hosting the JEF Convention.
