Center for Global Best Practices

To help first-time managers, tenured managers, supervisors, and successors of business owners hone their managerial and leadership skills, the Center for Global Best Practices will launch a special training entitled,  Manager Effectiveness Program  to be held on Wednesday and Thursday, February 13 & 14, 2019 at the Manila Marriott Hotel, Pasay City, Philippines. This two-day training program is specially crafted to provide first-time managers the right skills, mindset and attitude to be more successful and productive as they take on a bigger role in the organization. It will showcase practical examples and a compilation of best practices on what works for first-time managers in a Philippine setting and beyond. This blended type of learning tackles issues from leadership, developing one’s team, goal setting, supervision, task delegation, coaching and providing performance feedback, time management, conflict resolution and many more. Attendees will also gain valua...

Having effective board directors translate to good corporate governance and better business performance.  To help board directors and key officers of public and publicly-listed firms align themselves with global standard on effective governance and comply with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) mandated requirement to attend a corporate governance program to be eligible for election or re-election in the board or assume key positions in management, the Center for Global Best Practices (CGBP) will host a training entitled, Corporate Governance: Board Effectiveness Best Practices to be held on Friday, November 9, 2018 at the Manila Marriott Hotel, Pasay City, Philippines. This one-day special corporate governance program is designed to address two important issues:  (1) To provide capacity building for board directors by presenting to them the global best practices in board effectiveness drawn from the most updated global research of the largest acc...

While financial analysis makes sense, it is not enough to afford the management and the board of directors of any organization the value-adding attributes that are required to strategically position a business and take advantage of the opportunities for growth. With this, the Center for Global Best Practices will host a pioneering program entitled, Best Practices in Managing Financial Performance to be held on Thursday and Friday, October 25 & 26, 2018 at the Manila Marriott Hotel, Pasay City, Philippines. This two-day seminar goes beyond the technical and routine financial analytical ratios that can be easily derived at using the data in the financial statements. It provides the participants an opportunity to think more strategically and focus on the significant aspects of managing the financial performance of a business. It covers the tools and techniques in using financial data to set the business strategic goals, plan for relevant business activities, and come up wi...

In a survey conducted by the largest accounting firm in the world, PricewaterhouseCoopers, 54% of Philippine companies experienced economic crimes and fraud in the last two years. According to the 2018 Global Economic Crime and Fraud Survey, asset misappropriation (53%) ranked one on the list of economic crimes experienced by companies, followed by business misconduct (38%), procurement fraud (35%) and accounting fraud (29%). Don’t let any of these happen to your organization! To save your companies from millions of preventable losses, the Center for Global Best Practices will host a program entitled, “ Best Practices in Implementing Effective Business Controls ” scheduled on Thursday, August 16, 2018 at the Manila Marriott Hotel, Pasay City, Philippines. This one-day training will teach you the best practices of setting up, maintaining and managing internal control as part of company risk management strategy. Determine how you can improve internal control to boost sustainab...

Jumpstart your planning sessions correctly with the beginning of mid-year planning season for 2019!   Many companies go through strategic planning sessions without a clue or a clear idea how this should be conducted – resulting to wasteful time, effort, resources and poor planning output. Strategic planning is the process that enables your company to define its strategies and allows you to formulate the courses of action it will take to effectively and efficiently pursue your vision. The best plans happen when you have a systematic planning process that is done the right way.  With this, the Center for Global Best Practices will host a pioneering program entitled, “Best Practices on How to Conduct Strategic Planning and Prepare Strategic Action Plans” to be held on Friday, July 20, 2018 at the Manila Marriott Hotel, Pasay City, Philippines. This special program will focus on teaching participants the best practices in the real word— coming up with an effect...