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IACC has stated in its Meeting Room of the Future Report 2022 that the trend towards smaller hub and spoke format meetings, with in-person regional groups connected virtually, is here to stay.
Bumble Bee Seafood pursuing MSC certification for two longline tuna fisheries By Share San Diego, California, U.S.A.-based Bumble Bee Seafood and its parent company, FCF Co., announced on 24 May they will be pursuing Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification for two of their tuna fisheries. The companies will pursue MSC fishery assessments of two longline fisheries that span multiple nations, including Taiwan, Fiji, Vanuatu, and others. The fishery covers three oceans, three tuna species, and more than 250 longline vessels, predominantly catching albacore tuna. The fisheries represe...
705 Before COVID-19, there was already pressure on organisations to do things differently and according to the 2017 Deloitte Global Human Capital Trends, as many as 88 per cent of organisations admitted that there was the need to review the way they worked and operated. Also, the World Economic Forum 2020 Future of Jobs Report also noted that 94 per cent of business leaders expect employees to pick up new skills on the job; with around 40 per cent of companies expecting their workers to acquire this re-skilling within the next six months or less. On the flipside, the PwC Workforce for the F...
The 34 th ordinary summit of the African Union was held at its headquarters at Addis Ababa on 7 and 8 February 2021. It was the first virtual summit held during the COVID-19 pandemic, where, for the first time, it elected its Commission officials virtually under the new AU reforms. At this summit, the regional rotation of the chair of the AU took place. South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa, handed over the chairmanship to the President of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Felix-Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo. Thus, the rotation is from Southern Africa to Central Africa. Rwandan Presid...
Businesses need to teach their staff how to have better small talk and ditch weather chat Georgie Nightall is the founder of Trigger Conversations, Next week, I’ll be delivering the UK’s first university module in navigating small talk and networking at BPP University Law School. A university class on small talk? Do students really need to learn this, can it be taught, I hear you ask? Or perhaps you are shuddering at the idea of having small talk at all. Personally, I’ve never been a fan of small talk. I started Trigger Conversations in 2016 to crea...