Page 10 Dr. Parkes (right) with participants in the workshop for Jamaica’s Ministry of Health and Wellness. By Dr. Lois Parkes, Leadership Development and Institutional Strengthening Specialist T he year 2024 commenced with CARICAD becoming a member of the Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Certification Service UK. This means that our scheduled Leadership Development Programmes (Leading Change, Mid-Level Leadership Development Programme and Transformational Leadership Development Programme) will be assigned globally accepted CPD unit points over the next two years. Our Leading Change Workshop was delivered virtually in January 2024 with 30 participants from Belize, Jamaica, St. Kitts, Barbados, Antigua, and the British Virgin Islands. Participants were equipped with a range of change leadership tools and competencies, and a change action plan to support ongoing change implementation in their respective organisations. In February 2024, the 2024 intake and 21st Cohort of our LDP commenced with the launch of the Transformational Leadership Development Programme with 18 senior public sector and regional institutional leaders from Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica and Grenada. The programme commenced with each participant completing an Emotional Intelligence test (EQi 2.0) and debriefing with their assigned Executive Coach. The first Module focused on the theme of Leading Self and included the assessment of each participant’s style using the Extended DISC assessment. There are 3 remaining modules – Leading in Context and Complexity, Leading the Policy Process and Leading Transformation. Each participant will receive one-onone Executive Coaching and also participate in Action Learning, along with the learning sessions and implementation of their leadership stretch projects within their organisations. • Continues on next page
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