Date: Friday 18th January 2002
Time: 9.15
am – 12.15 pm: Pfizer workshop. 12.15 pm – 12.45 pm: Buffet
Lunch.
Venue: Nottingham (City Centre), 43b Fitzroy Building, Inland
Revenue Building, Castle Meadow.
Places for the seminar are limited and we have already
received wide interest from MPs and staff alike. Importantly, we have pitched the workshop at MPs and their
assistants so are thus keen for both to attend. Please let us know as soon as possible whether you would like
to attend and more details will follow.
More information and booking.
Anger Management Seminars were run by the
Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer www.pfizer.com at Westminster and Manchester on 6th and 9th February 2001 respectively.
Staff found this very interesting and useful especially in light of the terrible incident
at Cheltenham last year. Due to the imminent election, we have decided to postpone
further regional seminars until after the election. If you are interested please
email David Kenny kennyd@parliament.uk or
telephone 020 7219 6008.
Coutts Consulting Group Workshop - Friday 30
March 2001
Tony Crabbe from Coutts Consulting Group
www.ccgplc.co.uk ran a seminar at Portcullis
House, London on 30/03/01 delivering valuable aspects of Career and Personal Development
Training. The day was a blend of Coutts' HR and interactive work that was informative and
fun.
Conoco Career Development Seminar -
Thursday 15 March 2001
A very successsful half-day seminar on career
development, led by Margaret McCoy of CONOCO (UK) Ltd, www.conoco.co.uk took place in Portcullis
House on 15 March 2001.
Standard Life Seminar
- Monday 26th March 2001
On 26th March 2001 Standard Life www.standardlife.co.uk kindly supported the
Project by providing a Seminar on Customer Care, Team Development and Time Management at
their Tanfield Office, Edinburgh. Constituency staff from the Central Lowland
Regions thoroughly enjoyed the very high quality training provided.
Two seminars supported by Conoco UK Ltd,
www.conoco.co.uk took place at Westminster on
Tuesday 26th June 2001. These covered handling the media and included
presentations as well as video footage of real time scenarios. For more details click here.
Conoco
seminar Tuesday 26 June 2001
Mike Bennett (www.mbicmedia.com)
and Keith Webster (www.connoco.co.uk),
at the seminar on 26 June 2001, advising on staff on some of the finer
points when dealing with the Media.
BT
seminar Friday 29 June 2001
Chris Holland of BT (www.bt.com)
outlining some handy tips on how best to reply to constituents'
correspondence at the seminar on 29 June 2001.
On 19th January 2001 Reed Elsevier www.reedelsevier.co.uk hosted a seminar at their
office in Sutton. A cross section of party staff were able to brush up on the
important issues of press releases, publicity and media management. All staff found
this really useful and enjoyed their day.
The Project's mentoring scheme is now looking for volunteers to
benefit from opportunities within a number of blue-chip companies. The majority of
positions are London-based but there are also opportunities in Edinburgh and Manchester.
The participating companies include Chevron, Marks and Spencer and Standard Life.
Volunteers should phone 020 7219 6008 or email David kennyd@parliament.uk
One-day courses are offered
both for Westminster based staff and those working in constituency
offices. More information.
Matthew Donaghy and Mark Sadler visited the Flemish
parliament in Brussels on 22nd February 2001 and met Marc Le Bruyn. He was very
interested to hear about our training set-up and what courses we offered, in exchange for
training and development offered to Flemish staff. This also included a tour of the
Vlaams Parlement. To browse their site click on the link www.vlaamsparlement.be
Matthew Donaghy and David Kenny visited the Finnish parliament on
12th January 2001 and met up with Martti Korhonen (Head of Administration Office),
Anne-Eeva Pekkola (Deputy Head of Information) and Raisa Ketonen (Training
Secretary). The project's website "Working for an MP" was demonstrated and
ideas and best practice in staff training and development were exchanged. To browse
the Finnish Parliamentary website, click on the link www.eduskunta.fi
At the beginning of November 2000, Matthew Donaghy visited Margreta
Brundrin from the Riksdag in Stockholm. The purpose was to explore the kind of
training given to MPs' staff and how their assistants are supported through Information
and Communications Technology learning provisions. The visit showed that the Riksdag
has a well-defined, fully operational training system for MP's staff. Not only do
they take the concept of training for both staff and MPs seriously, but they are also
extremely proud of this system. For further information on the Swedish Parliamentary
website, click on the link www.riksdagen.se
By the middle of October 2000 Andy Clark and Matthew Donaghy began
to disseminate the project to our European neighbours. They visited the Dutch
Parliament in "The Hague" with the aim to
exchange best practice, and highlight any advantages or disadvantages of the ADAPT
programme in reIation to that exercised in The Hague. It also examined whether their
assistants had any access to mentoring structures within wider organisational fields of
Dutch business and industry. To
browse their Parliamentary website, click on the link www.parlement.nl
On 23rd January 2001, Mark Sadler hosted a flying visit from Blair
Armitage, Deputy Principal Clerk of the The Senate of Canada. He was briefed on the
background of the Project, the Training Software, the Mentoring Programme and
Dissemination across European countries. He managed to acquire some specific training
needs that could be incorporated to help staff within the Canadian Parliament. To
view their website, click on the link www.parl.gc.ca
On 27th November 2000, we hosted a visit from Vitalyi
Dolgov and Yuliya Glukhova of The Federal Assembly of The Russian Federation.
They were here to see the project's training facilities and experience the learning
software on offer to all MP's and their staff. Our visitors were impressed with the
potential need for training within parliament.
If you would like more information about our promotional activity
please contact David Kenny
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