About GDP Global in-house workshops

We offer a variety of in-house training workshops to meet all needs:

• Workshops for new recruits providing a grounding on the current FDI climate and all about investment promotion
• Refresher workshops for experienced professionals to ensure they are in line with current developments and to avoid complacency
• Workshops on Best Practice based on our experience in benchmarking competitiveness and agencies
• Operationally focused workshops for project managers
• Workshops with a strategic and policy focus for senior executives

In-house workshops are fully customised to meet your needs:

• You choose the duration of the training (from 1 to 5 days or more)
• We can integrate other consulting tools into the programme to deliver the strongest results for your agency

• GDP Global has conducted almost 60 development programmes in London, throughout Europe, Latin America, South Africa, Middle East, North Africa and Australasia.
• Cost effective - GDP Global support in internal in-house workshops is highly cost effective.
• We provide a combination of inputs that meet your needs.
• There is no wasted time and no unnecessary elaboration. We provide the consultancy input that will make the difference.
• Our clients typically use 1-5 days of consulting input.
• Our training and development contributions range from strategy and policy, through global and local investment matters, to practical and operational instruction for teams and individuals.
• We also develop and provide the tools necessary to undertake effective investment promotion.
• Team building is and integrated part of our in-house programmes.

Nov 2011: Trade & Invest North West, South Africa. Workshop focused on new investment promotion strategies and programmes.

Nov 2011: Kuwait Foreign Investment Board. Workshop on presenting Kuwait to foreign investors.

Nov 2011: Trade & Investment KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Workshop focused on new investment promotion strategies and programmes.

June and Oct 2011: Austrade, Australia. Workshops focused on winning investment for Australia by Team Australia.

June 2011: VIP Vojvidina Investment Promotion, Serbia. Internal workshop focused on training, annual planning and strategy formation, and international best practices.

April 2011: IDAL Investment Development Authority of Lebanon, Beirut, Lebanon. Internal workshop focused on training, annual planning and strategy formation.

April 2011: WESGRO, Cape Town, South Africa. Internal workshop focused on training, annual planning and strategy formation.

Feb 2011: IPEX - Invest in Castilla La Mancha, Toledo, Spain. Website benchmarking, diagnosis and recommendations for e-communications and website development.

Dec 2010: IPEX – Instituto de Promoción Exterior - Invest in Castilla La Mancha, Toledo Spain. One day intensive capacity building programme for the 24 staff of the trade and investment agency at their headquarters in Toledo, including the international team based abroad.

Nov 2010: Ministry of Trade and Industry of Panama. Capacity development programme, Part II, aimed at the staff of “Promocion de Inversion y Exportacion” (PROINVEX) Panama, and staff from VICOMEX, the foreign trade ministry.

Nov 2010: Austrade, Australia. Workshop focused on new investment promotion strategies.

Nov 2010: Auckland Region, New Zealand. Two workshops focused on new agency stricture, strategy, stakeholder relationships and performance benchmarking.