More Than 1500 ICC CWC 2007 Volunteers To Benefit From Quality Training

The Barbados Local Organising Committee’s (LOC) volunteer training programme is well underway.

Barbados’ Volunteer Programme for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2007 has attracted 1800 persons of several nationalities, who live in Barbados.

The Barbados Vocational Training Board (BVTB) developed an excellent training manual which includes an LOC/CWC Overview and six modules dealing with Cricket World Cup and event specific topics.

The topics are:
Volunteerism
A world class image
Barbadian hospitality
Many faces from different places
Communicating effectively
Working with people

Training sessions occur on Saturdays between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. and four corporate entities have kindly provided the use of their training facilities.

They are the National Insurance Scheme, First Caribbean Bank, Cable & Wireless and the CLR James Sports Centre of at the University of the West Indies Cave Hill.

Leroy Smith is the Local Organising Committee’s Volunteer Coordinator and he says as many as 120 persons go through the orientation and training every Saturday.

“Four sessions have been held to date and more than 300 volunteers have benefited from the training,” he added.

“The training will continue until all registered volunteers have gone through the orientation. Following this there will be further event specific training that ICC Cricket World Cup 2007 Inc. will conduct for the volunteers they select.”

The Partners in Excellence Advisory Team (PIEAT) headed by Paul Ashby, oversees the qualitative execution of the programme and very experienced facilitators who have all undergone the BVTB’s ‘Train the Trainers’ courses, ably assist him.

At the launch of the programme, Ashby said: “We’re confident that it’s well thought out and excited that we are able to provide every individual, expressing an interest in being a part of our volunteer pool, with a chance to be exposed to this high quality training experience.”

Kerrigan Roach is the LOC’s Human Resources Manager and he has hailed the level of support and interest expressed by the many persons who have registered for training as pleasing and encouraging.

However, he wants the prospective volunteers to be mindful of the fact that since they have stepped up for training, they must now follow through.

“Persons who sign up for training need to make every effort to show up to the sessions and be punctual since we are using attendance and punctuality as part of the criteria for final volunteer selection,” he said.

The Barbados LOC provides valuable administrative and technical support in project execution.

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