Leading at the Edge - a successful training week

With the pressures of work, the constant demands for change and the delivery of results every day, it can be easy to forget about the people around us. Understanding people is as important as understanding the product, the service and the deliverable for which we are responsible in our careers.

This is what creates excellent leadership. This is Leading at the Edge - a unique set of training events recently organised by JCI (Junior Chamber International) Malta, delivered by the Scottish JCI international trainer, Ian R. Thomson.

JCI Malta is affiliated to JCI - an international organisation dedicated towards creating better leaders and entrepreneurs. These training events form part of JCI Malta's continual dedication towards this mission.

In fact, training focused on developing leadership skills and consisted of a limited number of attendees, making the sessions truly focused and intensive.

Mr Thomson is a high-profile trainer within JCI with an impressive CV. He is an International Training Fellow and former JCI Scotland national president. Mr Thomson is also a master practitioner of NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programme) and the founder and chief executive of Leadership International Ltd, a consultancy and training firm with a portfolio of international clients, which include British Telecom, BskyB, Kuwait Petroleum and Qatar Petrochemical.

JCI Malta offered exclusive training events to its corporate partners and members as part of its training commitment towards them. Separate training events were held at JCI Malta's corporate partner hotel, the Corinthia San Gorg. Corporate partners who attended included HSBC Malta, KPMG Malta, Air Malta, Allied Newspapers Ltd, and Vodafone Malta.

Moreover, HSBC Malta and KPMG Malta, both JCI Malta's platinum corporate partners, each opted to invite Mr Thomson to provide in-house training specifically for their employees.

The international dimension also featured during the training event. Foreign JCI members attended the event as part of a JCI Malta programme to improve their English, organised by one of JCI Malta's partner - the Easy School of Languages.

Based on completion of the Campbell Leadership Descriptor, training participants were able to recognise their leadership strengths and identify areas in which they needed to improve. This internationally renowned programme allowed participants to begin a journey of self-reflection and analysis of their own leadership strengths and shortcomings, and develop a programme of personal improvement.

The excellent attendance and feedback demonstrated that these events added to JCI Malta's list of successful training calendar of events. In fact, JCI Malta has organised numerous successful training sessions over the past years delivered by local and foreign JCI trainers.

Training is one of the ways JCI Malta strives to enable young executive dialogue and network in order to further develop skills.

In accordance with JCI's international strategy, JCI Malta also organises other projects in four key areas: business, individual, community and international development.

JCI Malta is affiliated to Junior Chamber International (JCI), an international organisation with over 200,000 professionals and entrepreneurs. JCI strives to give its members the opportunity to develop themselves as individuals, enhance their leadership skills and form part of an international network currently present in over 100 member countries spread all over the world.

For more information about JCI Malta, visit the website www.jci.org.mt.