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2006 UK National Training Award

November 2006

ibp academy has won a 2006 UK National Training Award in partnership with Scottish Enterprise. At the recent awards ceremony in Glasgow, both partners were presented with a "Golden Ticket" to the UK National Training Awards Ceremony in London on December 14th. One of only 3 UK NTAs awarded this year in Scotland, the award recognised the success of the Premier Adviser programme, an initiative which has been benchmarking the competence of Scottish Enterprise business advisers for the last five years. Since the programme's inception, nearly 700 advisers have attained the Premier Adviser accreditation and the ILM Diploma in Business Advice and Counselling.

For more information on Premier Adviser, please call Janet Parker on 01475 676116.

ibp academy also won a Scottish National Training Award at the same ceremony for the development of an ILM certificated Lean Management programme with partners, Ross International.

Centre for Dynamic Leadership

December 2006

ibp academy has recently joined forces with executive coaching specialists, ChangeMasters and Reid Macewen Training and Conference Centre, Erskine Hospital, to launch the Centre for Dynamic Leadership. Building on the success of the New Leader suite of programmes, the Centre will act as a hub for dynamic leadership thinking in the West of Scotland and beyond. Aimed at leaders at all levels of seniority and experience, the Centre offers leadership development activities focused not just on individual development, but the creation of tangible bottom line results for their organisation. The Centre will be formally launched on January 23rd 2007.

If you are interested in attending, please contact Michael McGuire on 01475 676116.

Academy for Sustainable Communities

December 2006

The Raising Our Game programme, until recently delivered under the flag of the North West Regional Development Agency, now has a new home with the Academy for Sustainable Communities. Originally designed to develop the competence of economic development professionals in the Northwest of England, the programme has been further developed to cater for the CPD needs of practitioners working within regeneration and sustainable communities. Its competency framework has also been expanded to link directly to the recommendations of the Egan Review. ibp academy, the programme delivery team are currently working with ASC and ILM to develop and pilot a groundbreaking Certificate in Leading Sustainable Communities linked to the National Qualfications Framework.

For more information about Raising Our Game, please contact Janet Parker on 01475 676116.