BUSINESS PROFILE
Akd Development Services will provide reliable, experienced human development services to a developing community. The Agency’s philosophical pillar is, “As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he”, and will employ a cognitive, psychosocial approach to the delivery of its service to its clientele. The approaches used in training and development work will bring into focus the power o
f the mind as the central force in the process of individual and organizational growth and development. Akd Development Services will respond to the needs of a changing community and will facilitate personal and professional development through:
1. The Management and Facilitation of Workshops, Conferences, Meetings and Seminars
This service includes full management services as an independent feature to facilitation, as well as a combination of management and facilitation services to satisfy client need. Management Services include:
• Booking of venue
• Invitations
• Décor and set up services
• Programme
• Registration
• Note-taking
• Report writing
Facilitation Services include:
• Research
• Programme Content development and/ or delivery
• Delivery of workshop
• Group facilitation
• Presentation of findings
• Evaluation & Reporting
2. Capacity Building Training:
This service is available on demand and specialized training workshops can be development in response to identified need. Training may include but is not limited to:
• Leadership
• Assertiveness training
• Inter and Intrapersonal Skills
• Goal Setting and Decision Making
• Conflict management
• Critical thinking and problem solving
• Customer Service
• Strategic Flexibility (SF)
• Managing Non- Governmental Organizations
• Community Mapping
• Youth and community development training workshops
• Starting and operating a community based organization
• Group dynamics
• Programme conceptualization/ development
• Developing a constitution for youth or community groups
• Strategic Planning
• Proposal writing and project management for soft projects
• Fund Raising
• Professional writing & Records management for community based organizations
• Team building
3. Advisory Services:
• Programme / Project conceptualization and development.
• Group Development
• Managing and operating community and youth groups
• Community and Youth Development
• Strategic Planning
4. Documentation Services including:
This service is available to individuals, community groups, NGO’s and other businesses on a contractual or job basis and may include:
• Letters
• Resume
• Forms
• General document preparation
• Business plans
• Proposal writing for social projects
5. Consultation and Referral Services
AKD Development Services operates on the principle of satisfying customer need in the interest of promoting human, social and community development. In this regard the company has extensive knowledge of services available and networks to referrals should we not able to satisfy client need. As a pioneer in the delivery of human development services in Tobago, AKD Development Services is committed to using the team approach in the delivery of its services to its clients. In this regard, clients will have a range of experienced personnel available to them on a contractual basis in response to identified needs as we serve with distinction and delight. AKD Development Services was registered to operate in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago as a sole trader, under the Registration of Business Names Act Chap. 82:85, certificate # B214021102827 on the 5th day of February 2014. The Manager, Ann Marie Kairan deGazon, has:
A Bachelor of Science Degree in Psychology, earned at Andrews University as a student of the University of Southern Caribbean,
Diploma in Youth in Development Work, from the University of the West Indies,
Certificate - Adverse Childhood Experience, Drug and Alcohol Intervention Assessment, and Social Work Assessment and Intervention from the Pacific Lutheran University,
Certificate Programme in Events Management; Letters of completion received from Arthur Lok Jack Graduate School of Business for:
Event Marketing
Risk Management
Corporate Events Management
Sport Events Marketing
Best Practices in Event Management
Event Protocol
Certificate of Participation - Leadership for Results Programme - UNDP & Teleos Leadership Institute, LLC
Certificates of participation/ achievement in:
Peer Education Techniques
REACH America –Drug Prevention Programme
Youth to Youth - Drug Prevention
NADAAP – Community Intervention Programme
Train the Trainers programme in Life Skill Education –Caribbean Development Bank
and innumerable experiences including, social research, drug prevention, youth development, proposal writing, programme development, community mobilization, leadership training, workshop delivery, professional writing and documentation.
