European Economic and Social Committee Hearing with civil society: the implementation of the Lisbon

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European Economic and Social CommitteeHearing
with civil society the implementation of the
Lisbon strategyBrussels, 8 9 November 2005
Professional Development in the British Third
Sector an example of best practice

• Filippo Addariiacevo - association of chief
  executives of voluntary organisations

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acevo

• Professional organisation representing 2,000
  third sector leaders
• Having a collective yearly turnover of 14
  billion
• Employing 200,000 staff members
• Managing over 3 million volunteers

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Mission

• Promoting professional development in the UK
  third sector
• Offering networking opportunities to CEOs
• Developing advocacy positions for the UK Third
  Sectors leaders

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Professional development 2 major categories

• Training courses and workshops facilitated by
  professional trainers and/or in partnership with
  specialised schools
• Exchanges and networking opportunities to promote
  peer-to-peer learning and personal development

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How many professional development opportunities?

• At least 1 training course or networking event
  every week
• 2 national conferences focusing on cutting-edge
  topics of interest to the sector
• 1 international conference to promote European
  global cross-learning and exchanges between third
  sector leaders

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The National Programmes major training courses

• Diploma in company direction (in partnership with
  Institute of Directors)
• Advanced leadership development programme
  (Ashridge Business School)
• Developing the experienced leader (Cranfield
  school of Management)
• Effective Partnership working (Tribal Centre for
  Organisational Learning)

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The International Programmes professional
development opportunities

• Annual European Third Sector Summer School (e.g.
  Urbino 2005, Budapest 2006)
• Bilateral exchanges between European third sector
  leaders
• Tailored job shadowing initiatives
• Specific training workshops (e.g. Communication
  Creativity in the Third Sector, Bologna 2006)

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Other leading UK examples of professional
development

• Centre for Charity Effectiveness - Cass Business
  School
• Centre for Government Charity Management -
  London South Bank University
• BOND (British Overseas NGOs for Development)
• RedR

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For more information

• filippo.addarii_at_acevo.org.uk
• www.acevo.org.uk