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“Agile Careers: The New Talent Agenda”: Glynis Rankin quoted in “The Smart Manager”

22nd August 2011
The pace and scale of change has left employees in a ‘career vacuum’ according to fresh research by Career Innovation and Creative Metier. Read Jonathan Winter’s article published in the Indian Management Magazine “The Smart Manager”, discussing how HR practices that focus mainly on the top talent and ignore the potential of the remaining workforce impact organisational agility, and the interventions which can really make a difference.
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Creative Metier develops “Senior Leadership Development and Succession Planning Service”

15th June 2011
To support their Strategic HR consulting work across International NGOs, Financial Sector Institutions and other organisations, Creative Metier is extending their suite of online tools to include a dedicated Strategic HR service.
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Creative Metier partners with SDG to support the “Missing-Middle”

12th June 2011
Creative Metier is delighted to announce their partnership with Summit Development Group, to provide Strategic HR and Organisational Design support for its financial institutions (FI’s) across Africa which serve the “Missing-Middle”.
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Constant change has left employees in a ‘career vacuum’ – global study published

8th March 2011
The pace and scale of change has left employees in a ‘career vacuum’ according to fresh research by Career Innovation with Creative Metier. The best employers are helping managers to have career conversations, and communicating what a career means today.
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CSFI Report Published: Including Africa – Beyond Microfinance

1st March 2011
In a new paper for the Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation (CSFI), Mark Napier (the CSFI's first Citi DfiD Development Fellow and editor of a new book on financial innovation in Africa) suggests that innovation by mainstream banks and the mobile phone industry will play a greater role in the future in building financial inclusion rather than in traditional microfinance.
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Microfinance Banana Skins 2011 report published

17th February 2011
The Microfinance Banana Skins Survey, now in its third year, explores the risks facing the microfinance industry at a time when hard questions are being asked about its future
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Glynis Rankin explores using Remote Coaching to embed learning

16th December 2010
In her article “So far and yet so near” published by the Training Journal, Glynis Rankin explores the potential of remote international coaching for increasing the application of learning from leadership development and executive education programmes.
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Glynis Rankin joins 2010 SEEP Conference Panel

22nd October 2010
Meeting a Critical Need in Microfinance: Leadership for the 21st Century MFI

Glynis Rankin is to join the Panel at the 2010 SEEP Annual Conference the premier event for microenterprise development practitioners to connect on the challenges and opportunities they face.
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Glynis Rankin addresses EMCC European Conference

29th September 2010
Glynis Rankin of Creative Metier will be speaking at the 17th European Mentoring and Coaching Council Conference to be held on 17 and 18 November in Dublin. This event is the premier European annual event bringing together coaches, mentors, academics, researchers, providers and clients
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Creative Metier and Women’s World Banking host “The Coaching Programme – Coaching for Mission Leadership and Performance”

10th June 2010
Programme from June 15-17 is the latest in a Series designed to Develop World Class Leadership in the Microfinance Sector.

New York based Women’s World Banking’s (WWB) Center for Microfinance Leadership, which designs and delivers executive education programmes focused on cultivating principled, visionary leaders in microfinance, announces its inaugural event for the “The Coaching Programme – Coaching for Mission Leadership and Performance”, co-designed and hosted near Oxford by UK company Creative Metier from June 15-17.

The six month programme will bring together 17 senior leaders and managers in microfinance from 12 institutions in 11 countries across the Middle East, Asia, Africa and Latin America to enhance their knowledge, skills, and leadership capabilities through coaching. Participants will be welcomed by the Rt Hon Lord Patten of Barnes', Chancellor of Oxford University. This is the first Center workshop to be held in the UK since it was created last year.
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Creative Metier partners with Resource Management Limited to offer complimentary services

9th June 2010
Resource Management are experts in Talent Management and Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO). As a Managed Service Provider (MSP), they deliver total resourcing solutions to businesses of all sizes – making their resourcing strategy real.
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Creative Metier partners with the Women’s World Banking Center for Microfinance Leadership

18th December 2009
Women’s World Banking, with the generous support of the MasterCard Foundation, has established the Center for Microfinance Leadership to promote world-class leadership and management practices throughout the microfinance sector. The Center will work with founder partners, the Aresty Institute of Executive Education at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and with Creative Metier, to design and deliver executive education programs focused on cultivating principled, visionary leaders in microfinance.
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Creative Metier partners with Career Innovation (Ci) to deliver career coaching to Ci’s clients

18th December 2009
Creative Metier is partnering with Career Innovation (Ci) to offer a package of one to one coaching support which builds on Ci’s “CiZone” career tools. Ci is a catalyst organization working with some of the world’s best known employers to help them increase business agility and gain recognition as inspiring places to work. Ci’s approach uses a powerful mix of fresh research insights, collaborative events and high impact online career and leadership tools. This partnership builds on Creative Metier’s expertise in Remote International Coaching Delivery (RICD).
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Vivocco™100 Ready for Global Release

28th May 2009
The Creative Metier Learning Design Team has developed Vivocco™100 as a response to the current steep decrease in employee engagement and workforce productivity figures.
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Women’s World Banking, Global Conference, New York

21st May 2009
Creative Metier Director speaks at Women’s World Banking Global Conference, New York.

Glynis Rankin headed up the Leadership Panel at the Women’s World Banking Global Conference in New York on 27th April attended by leaders from 49 microfinance institutions and banks from 29 countries around the world.
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