The Training and Career Development Center specializes in professional services. It houses the AmCham-Jordan’s ILO-Accredited EYB and SIYB Projects and provides business managements and corporate capacity building training programs. In addition, the YCDC provides export education and capacity building programs to Jordanian and regional businesses. Corporate executives and professionals seeking accredited certification courses in international trade or in export disciplines will use this career as their career development hub.
Upcoming Training and Career Development Programs for 2005
Expand Your Business Program : conducted by EYB certified consultants, the EYB program is a comprehensive business support package designed for business owners and functional managers to sharpen their business skills in the areas of Strategic Management, Marketing, Human Resources and Financial Management to guide each enterprise to prepare for their own growth plans. The EYB program is not similar to any other training program offered in Jordan particularly because of its post training consultation visits that ensure proper implementation of the growth plans which is the foundation of any expansion/Starting May
Franchising: conducted by an American Franchising agent, developer and consultant to educate on learning and re-acquaintance of the application of basic business and management skills, including the “Why” of Franchising, the benefits and pitfalls of Franchising , the opportunities to be gained from owning a Franchise, international opportunities for selling and developing Franchises; and the legal ramifications to be addressed. At the end of the workshop, participants will be able to develop a document to address specific items in franchising according to their own specific business/Starting June.
Industrial Licensing: conducted by an American consultant, the workshop will take you through several case studies that will facilitate your learning of the opportunities to develop concepts, theories, and alternatives to simply sell an idea or business concept to the highest bidder. The workshop will also focus on challenges and how to protect and evaluate the value of the idea or concept through both formulaic and sales potential methods. There are basic elements of intellectual property rights, trade secret, and technology transfer laws as well as practical marketing licenses and to whom and how should they be leveraged to benefit the Licensor, which will be addressed during the workshop to succeed in successfully licensing your product or concept in the World market/Starting June
Subcontracting: the workshop will guide you on how to utilize lower labor costs to fulfill work product as a process to lower the overall cost of production or distribution. The complexity of the management of extended control developed by the parent corporation, with its accompanying and associated HR diversity issues, legislative challenges, and challenging fallout have. Participants will be challenged to develop a plan for segments of their business that could be outsourced, identify target markets in which to outsource these functions, and evaluate the alternatives to outsourcing in both the near term and longer term/Starting June
Outsourcing/Off Shoring: covers the issue of outsourcing, the biggest trend in business management today. It is envisaged that the workshops will be conducted as a combination of instruction, interaction through Q&A and role-playing. In the latter, participants will be divided into groups, representing companies and outsourced providers, to expose three key issues:
Determination of need and process control (internal to the company)
Customer process specification negotiation (involving outsourced provider and Client Company)
Quality control issues (negotiated between the two parties)/Starting Sept.
Find Investors to your B usiness: This workshop covers the central issue of investment in a business, and applies as well to a business seeking to establish a beachhead in the United Statesthe workshop will focus on three areas all of which are critical to building a base of interest from the investment community. Areas related to strategic issue as in intellectual property and strategic planning and management, the second area is presentation issues such as elevator pitch and communicating the essentials of the plans and exit presentation. The third area is Research and Negotiation as in finding the right source and/ or mix capital and determining the elements of negotiation. The workshop will be practically-oriented. An important outcome being is to encourage live presentations by attendees, with role-playing being used to increase interactivity/Starting Sept.
J oint Venture Partners: the workshop will educate participants on the opportunity to enter a marketplace and develop sales and profits from the venture thereto, as well as learn and capitalize on the knowledge, political power, raw goods and manufactured materials available through the JV partner. The workshop will go in depth of the challenges and sharing of risks to both parties, but also limits the amount of control and return that each JV partner enjoys. An action plan will be developed by the participants to address Joint Venture in their business/ Starting Oct
Mergers/Acquisitions : participants will review Due Diligence checklists and learn about factors impacting M&A Activity, review legal aspects of M&A Activity and will be taken through globalization, technology, deregulation, the strong economic environment, changes in industry and the impact these factors have on M&A /Starting Oct
