Certificate Course in Strategic Training and Development
Managing Employee Performance
Certificate Course in Competency-Based Human Resource
Certificate Course in Performance and Rewards Management
Training Design and Evaluation
Certificate Course in Organization Development
(September 4-5, 11-12, 18-19, and 25-26)
Friday-Saturday Run
Certificate Course in Employee Engagement and Well-Being
Certificate Course in Strategic Training and Development
(October 1-3, 9-10, 16-17 and 23-24)
Thursday-Saturday and Friday-Saturday Run
Research Methods in HR
Certificate Course in Talent and Career Management


The Certificate Course in Organization Development is an eight-day course directed towards enabling HR professionals and individuals to understand the nature of organizations as developing systems and to hone skills to diagnose and identify appropriate interventions.
At the end of the program, participants are expected to:
When: May 19-22, 25-28
Where:Ateneo CORD Training Center, 2/F Höffner Bldg., Social Development Complex, Ateneo de Manila University, Loyola Heights, Q.C.
Interested parties may call at 426 6065/426 6282 or email ateneocord@admu.edu.ph

The Ateneo de Manila Departmentof Psychology is pleased to announce that it’s latest offering - an MA in IO psychology track in OrganizationDevelopment. The OD track is a non-thesis program aimed at developing thecompetencies required for the practice of organization development including:coaching, team development and designing and facilitating large scaleinterventions. The OD track is thenewest addition to its current thesis and non-thesis track in Strategic HumanResource Management that is designed to develop strategic HR practitioners. Deadlinefor admission to the program is on May 8, 2009.
For more inquiries on admissionguidelines and procedures please visit the AdMU website www.admu.edu.ph or contact the GraduatePrograms office at 426-6001 loc. 5141-5142 or grad@admu.edu.ph. For inquirieson the program, email IO program director Dr. Regina Hechanova at rhechanova@ateneo.edu.

The Talent and Career Management Program is a four-day course designed for individuals who are responsible for the identification, assessment, and development of talents in their organization.
At the end of the program, participants will be able to:
When:April 21-24, 2009
Where:Ateneo CORD Training Center, 2/F Höffner Bldg., Social Development Complex, Ateneo de Manila University, Loyola Heights, Q.C.
Interested parties may call at 426 6065/426 6282 or email ateneocord@admu.edu.ph


The Training Assistant Development Program is a short course designed to equip the training assistant with skills in coordinating, preparing, and documenting workshops.
By the end of the program, you would be able to:
When:March 30-31, 2009
Where:Ateneo CORD Training Center, 2/F Höffner Bldg., Social Development Complex, Ateneo de Manila University, Loyola Heights, Q.C.
Interested parties may call at 426 6065/426 6282 or email ateneocord@admu.edu.ph

This four day course is aimed at developing the practitioner's competencies in translating business strategies into organizational capabilities and ensuring these become sound HR practices
At the end of the program, participants will be able to:
1. Assess the role of HR in your organization
2. Identify areas in HR where they need to develop their competencies
When: February 17-20, 2009
Where: Ateneo CORD Training Center, 2/F Höffner Bldg., Social Development Complex, Ateneo de Manila University, Loyola Heights, Q.C.
Interested parties may call at 426 6065/426 6282 or email ateneocord@admu.edu.ph

Integrating Outdoor Experiential Learning in Leadership Development
What’s in store for you?Simulation of Outdoor Experience
Be part of how outdoor experiential learning can be incorporated into strategic programs and achieve significant results.
Adult Learning Methodologies
Review adult learning principle and have discussions on how these are applied to learning programs.
Learn from Best Practice
How Nestlé Philippines maximizes the outdoor experiential learning and its impact on their leadership development program.
Additional reference: business.inquirer.net/money/features/view/20090201-186848/Lessons-for-employee-development

This four-day program is designed to develop the HR practitioner’s skills in identifying and defining competencies, and utilizing these as foundations for developing competency-based HR programs and systems.
At the end of the program, participants will be able to:
1. Identify and define competencies
2. Determine methods in assessing competencies
3. Utilize competencies in selecting employees
4. Explain the use of competencies in performance management
5. Utilize competencies in developing employees
6. Describe how competencies are used in compensation
7. Identify your organization’s drivers and barriers to building a competency-based culture
When: February 9-12, 2009
Where: Ateneo CORD Training Center, 2/F Höffner Bldg., Social Development Complex, Ateneo de Manila University, Loyola Heights, Q.C.Interested parties may call at 426 6065/426 6282 or email ateneocord@admu.edu.ph

Ateneo CORD in partnership with CCE (Center for Continuing Education) will offer a 2-day learning experience for dynamic people. This program aims to equip people who are knee-deep in stress with the necessary tools to combat stress and even thrive under difficult situations.





Accenture Philippines, a local arm of the global business process outsourcing (BPO) firm, has partnered with Ateneo CORD in the establishment of its newly launched HR Academy here in the Philippines.
The Accenture Philippines HR Academy aims to develop Filipino HR professionals that can compete with the global demands for human resource services.
Ateneo CORD, along with the People Management Assiciation of the Philippines (PMAP), designed and will deliver the courses to be taken by Accenture employees enrolled in the HR Academy. Courses under the Academy have been designed to fit the unique needs of the BPO industry and will combine classroom learning and practical application (on-the-job training).

We often hear older people say “iba na ang mgakabataan ngayon” (the youth today are different). Whether that is said in admiration, awe, confusion or even disdain there is a perception that there isa growing cultural divide between young and old. To find out more about how to manage young Filipino workers, visit Ateneo CORD's column called Workplace Wisdom in the Philippine Daily Inquirer.
Click the link
to access the article:http://business.inquirer.net/money/features/view/20080907-159237/Managing-young-Filipino-workers
Ateneo CORD is now located at 1/F Frank Lynch Hall. Social Development Complex, Ateneo de Manila University, Loyola Heights, Quezon City. It is in the same building as the Institute of Philippine Culture or IPC.
The old office at the 2/F Höffner Building, Social Development Complex now serves as its Training Center. It will be the venue of upcoming public programs unless otherwise announced.
CORD also has a new telefax number: 426-5931.

In the face of globalization, organization have increasingly harnessed technology as a tool to manage people. One manifestation of this is the emergence of virtual teams. To find out more about the experiences of virtual team managers in the

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As part of the Ateneo CORD’s thrust to build knowledge inpeople and organization, Ateneo CORD re-established a partnership with the Philippine Daily Inquirer through a bi-monthly column in the Business Monday section called Workplace Wisdom. This column features new researches on peopleand organization management. The first article of the column, entitled Ways to Help Retain Employees by Rachel Carbonell, was launched on July 28, 2008. Visit www.inquirer.net to read the article.

Ateneo CORD and the Ateneo School of Government Youth Leadership and Social Entrepreneurship Program have enetered into a partnership to conduct research on successful social entrepreneurs. By documenting their creation, evolution, challenges and successes, the project hopes to help other social entrepreneurs in their efforts at finding innovative solutions to social problems.

Ateneo CORD, in partnership with the Ateneo Java Wireless Competency Center (AJWCC), is proud to present the Ateneo CORD E-Learning Series (ACES)!
In line with our mission to provide learning and development opportunities closer to people and organizations, we offer ACES as an alternative venue for individuals who cannot afford to leave work to attend face-to-face trainings for a certain period of time.
ACES provides online courses that are accessible to anyone with Internet access. Adhering to the principles of adult learning, we have tailored our courses to cater to those who want to develop and enhance their competencies. The learning environment of the online classes allows participants to collaborate with experts and fellow participants from all over the country via online chat, forums and activities. In addition, our courses have exciting, dynamic features such as podcasts, simulations, animation, online exams and much more!
To know more about ACES and our programs, please log on to http://aces.ateneo.edu.



The Ateneo Center for Organization Research and Development (Ateneo CORD), in fulfillment of its thrust to build knowledge in the Philippines, is providing research grants to eligible individuals who will be involved in this collaboration. All graduate students, senior undergraduate students, researchers, and faculty members of any university are eligible to apply for the Ateneo CORD Research Grants. Primary beneficiaries will be Psychology students completing their thesis or dissertations. Successful applicants will be given anywhere from P5,000 to P50,000 as support depending on the evaluation of the proposal. For more details please contact Associate Director for Research Ms. Renee Ortega at rortega@ateneo.edu.

Ateneo CORD welcomes a new Executive Director in the person of Ma. Regina Hechanova. Gina is a faculty member of the Ateneo Department of Psychology and has been with CORD for the past 7 years as its Training Director, Director for Consulting, Research Director and most recently, its Deputy Executuve Director. She replaces Dr. Edna "Bopeep" Franco who will serve as the Chair of the Psychology Department of Ateneo in June 2008.