Center for Global Best Practices

One of the essential qualities of a great leader is communicating well with people.   And there’s no second chance to make a first impression — this holds true for business writing.    Your income is assured if your corporate letters, memos, and reports are written professionally!    The Center for Global Best Practices will hold one of its best-selling seminars entitled, “ Write RIGHT for Positive Results:   A Best Practices Guide to Writing E-mails, One-Page Letters, Memos, and Reports ” on Friday, April 13, 2018 at the Marriott Hotel, Pasay City, Philippines.    Expand your business writing skills in this highly-rated seminar workshop.  Learn and re-learn current best practices in writing that important one-page memo, the persuasive proposal, and the make-or-break letter to produce the best results.  You will have a firsthand glimpse at writing templates that produced results in the most difficult of situations. We will share real and current examples and effective strategie

A meeting loses its value and wastes time if it is not documented in the correct manner. With the current climate of greater accountability of board directors and management in decisions made during meetings, every organization needs trained experts with the right skills to take minutes effectively. To make your meetings efficient and its outcomes effective, the Center for Global Best Practices will hold a special program entitled, “ Masterclass in Writing Minutes of Meetings ” on Tuesday, April 24, 2018 at the Bellevue Hotel, Muntinlupa City, Philippines.  This pioneering program will teach you the best practices in minutes taking and provide you vital information on the legal guidelines, and regulations on meetings mandated by the Securities and Exchange Commission. This program is for members of the board, directors, corporate secretaries, management committees, minute takers and anyone who would like to document and to formalize their meetings. Modules include a step-by-step

President Rodrigo Duterte signed Executive Order 34 dated July 17, 2017 simplifying certain processes and procedure to make it faster and more efficient for national government agencies, LGUs and GOCCs to procure infrastructure, goods and services.  This is good news for those in the private sector who are doing business or plan to do business with the government. To help all stakeholders understand these changes, the Center for Global Best Practices is hosting a one-time rerun this year for its pioneering two-day seminar entitled, “What You MUST Know About the Government Procurement Law IRR 2016” to be held on Thursday and Friday, April 5 & 6, 2018 at the Manila Marriott Hotel, Pasay City, Philippines. This seminar is part of a two-series program with the other one entitled, How To Prepare Your Bidding Documents (aligned with the new IRR) to be held on June 28 & 29 (at the Manila Marriott Hotel).   The changes will impact on all government procurement and transactions

Delays in construction permits and clearances arise due to the conflicting interpretation of the Building Code of the Philippines among the government authorities, technical professionals and property owners and developers. It’s time to set the record straight! The Center for Global Best Practices is having a special program entitled, “ Property Developers’ Guide to the Building Code IRR of the Philippines ” on Thursday and Friday, March 15 & 16, 2018 at the Manila Marriott Hotel, Pasay City, Philippines.  This two-day lecture is designed to provide a clear guideline to the 2005 IRR of the Building Code of the Philippines.  This is also to help the different stakeholders align with it the different referral codes such as the Architectural, Structural, Plumbing, Sanitation, Electrical, Electronics, Mechanical and Interior design codes. The seminar will include valuable insights on how to fast track your building permits, updates on the latest government issuances, memorandum

If you do import and export trade transactions or planning to trade goods, it’s a must to master INCOTERMS (International Commercial Terms used in shipping goods on land, air and sea).  While the revised set of rules on INCOTERMS in all international trade transactions has taken effect globally seven years ago, many exporters and importers, traders, bankers, insurers, freight forwarders, carriers and the people handling such transactions namely business owners, treasurers, CFOs, procurement officers, trade negotiators and many lawyers are still unaware or ill equipped in understanding these changes. They make mistakes in the use of these trade terminologies that jeopardize their business. It has cost them loss of business opportunities, delays in deliveries and receipt of products and additional legal costs to solve their problems.  Understanding these revised rules and incorporating their use in sales contracts will eliminate the uncertainties, errors and costly mistakes in th

The Tax Reform Acceleration and Inclusion (TRAIN) Act took effect on January 1, 2018. This means NEW computation on compensation!  Many businesses and HR practitioners are not skilled and updated on how to maximize the tax savings and benefits that is allowed by government.  The confusion on how to properly compute for the salaries, wages, and benefits was aggravated in the passing of 2018 TRAIN provisions, which impacts both individual and corporate taxpayers. To help the millions of taxpayers and thousands of business organization on this issue, the Center for Global Best Practices is launching a seminar for business owners, decision-makers and  HR practitioners on the topic, "How to Structure and Compute Your Salaries, Wages & Benefits with the 2018 TRAIN Incentives for Taxpayers" scheduled on Thursday, March 1, 2018 at the Manila Marriott Hotel, Pasay City, Philippines.  You can actually increase the take home pay of your workers by designing your compensation