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Conferences: Where will Jackie be next?

What better way to get the information you need than attending one of my many conferences. I am a firm believer in sharing my knowledge I have honed over the years in any way that I can.

Sometimes, being around a book or reading about the changes you want to make are not as effective as you’d like them to be, and you need a little refresher, or to hear the information in a voice other than your own. Whatever your motive may be, I think my conferences would be perfect for you as they are as insightful and inspiring as they are fun!

Here is a list of all my upcoming conferences this year so get your calendar ready and set your intentions. Take the step towards becoming the person and worker you have always wanted to be, I can’t wait to see you there!

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I was invited by Jacqueline to participate at the 11th Middle Managers Conference. As the organiser of the event, Jacqueline demonstrated her strong work ethic through her commitment, attention to detail and care for both the program of the conference and all invited guests.
Dobrochna Aleksandra Giedwidz
FOUNDER Etiquette Now Spain

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Maybe you can’t make it to one of my scheduled conferences but you have a desire to still hear the information you need from me. No worries, look towards scheduling a meeting or speaking session with me.

I always make the time to help others, especially if they are taking charge over the life they want to live. So do not fret, fill out my mini form below and let’s get you on your way towards holistic Personal Development!

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I am a trained behavioural coach and it has always brought me great joy helping those around me, get to where they need to go.

Having helped over 20,000 persons get to where they needed to go in the business world, I am confident in my skills to not just help you but your friend, cousin and even colleague. If you think that getting my expert training is the best fit for you, then fill out this form below and let’s make it happen!
Using the phrase “I decided” has never been any more rewarding. Decide to make that change and invest in your future today!

Jacqueline Coke-Lloyd is an extraordinary woman. Her passion, faith and focus are strengths that enable her to add tremendous value wherever she goes and to all with whom she interacts. Her knowledge of administration, training and leadership enables her to effectively lead as Managing Director of her consultancy firm, Make Your Mark consultants. Dr. Jackie is the real deal, and it shows up in every area of her life.
Dr. Rohan Ambersley
CEO Massy Gas Products Jamaica
I have had the great privilege of getting to know Jackie Coke-Lloyd through her training in transformational leadership at Bakke Graduate University. Through her innovative research, I have seen how Make Your Mark Consultants has made a significant transformational impact in the lives of individuals and in organizations throughout Jamaica and globally. I have noticed a strong sense of calling that she has to make a difference in the lives of leaders, managers, young people, and institutions through her heartfelt approach to consulting and empowering others for success. Jackie was already passionate about helping others before the arrival of the Covid-19 pandemic, but I was particularly impressed to experience her leadership firsthand as she navigated through the many challenges of the past couple of years with grace, wisdom, and a willingness to change in order to continue on with her important work.
I highly recommend Jackie Coke-Lloyd to any organization or individual who is interested in transforming their lives, their neighbourhood, their organization, their city, their country, or even the world.
Dr. Bryan McCabe
Chief Academic Officer Bakke Graduate University

The Middle Managers Conference 2023 held at the Jamaica Pegasus.


Jamaican middle managers challenged to increase the country’s output

Shamille Scott

May 3, 2023, 01:45 PM ET – Updated May 3, 2023, 02:16 PM ET
 
Dr Jacqueline Coke-Lloyd (left), CEO of the Make Your Mark Group, organiser of the Middle Managers’ Leadership Conference shares a word with Senator Aubyn Hill, Minister of Industry, Investments and Commerce.
Dr Jacqueline Coke-Lloyd (left), CEO of the Make Your Mark Group, organizer of the Middle Managers’ Leadership Conference shares a word with Senator Aubyn Hill, Minister of Industry, Investments and Commerce.
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Participants at Jamaica’s leading conference focusing on middle managers have been challenged to lead the effort to reduce the country’s negative trade balance, which stood at more than US$4 billion for 2021. 

The call came from Senator Aubyn Hill, Minister of Industry, Investments, and Commerce, who delivered the main address at the 13th staging of the Middle Managers’ Leadership Conference at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel in Kingston on April 26. 

Noting that Jamaica has registered a greater value of exports than imports in only one since Independence in 1962, Minister Hill charged the participants to be tenacious in helping their companies to increase the country’s output. 

“If you’re going to be a leader, make sure that in the stage of following, you follow wisely and well…Be tenacious and stay the course. You are the glue that keeps things together. Develop a variety of skills if you want to become a really good CEO”, Hill told the participants at the conference, which is staged by Make Your Mark Group. 

The two-day conference sought to educate and upskill mid-management personnel about the essentials of team management, organization growth and management, and the tools needed to lead by example. Defining a leader simply as “someone who has followers”, Hill urged the participants to develop a good attitude to serve. 

“Don’t just regulate and block – enable, facilitate, and encourage”, he said. 

Hill said middle managers should seek out problems in their organizations and fix them while remaining authentic, with their words matching their actions. Employers, on the other hand, should pay their employees well because “the best incentive (employees) get is at the end of the month if you are paid monthly, or at the end of two weeks if you’re paid fortnightly”. 

Hill urged the participants to not only heed the advice of their friends but to listen to their “most acerbic critic and treat them as an unpaid consultant”.

Noting that unemployment is at its lowest level in Jamaica’s history at about 6.5 percent, Minister Hill said the government would be ramping up training of unskilled persons in the short term and called on the private sector to do the same.

“Government is training people through apprenticeships, but businesses must step up and train a lot more people”, Minister Hill said.

The Middle Managers’ Leadership Conference, hosted by Dr. Jacqueline Coke-Lloyd, CEO of the Make Your Mark Group was held under the theme “Leading from the Middle with Courage, Authenticity and Vision”.


Management consultant calls for targeted training, skill importation

Loop News 

April 28, 2023 05:04 PM ET – Updated April 28, 2023 05:57 PM ET
Dr Jackie Coke-Lloyd (seated), Managing Director of Make Your Mark Group (MYMG) converses with Karla Stephens-Hall, Financial Officer at Progressive Grocers of Jamaica Ltd and Jermane Blair, Branch Manager, Courts Portmore as she signs her book, The Middle Managers Development Guide at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel on Wednesday, April 26. The book was launched at the Middle Managers Leadership Conference 2023 which is staged by MYMG.
Dr Jackie Coke-Lloyd (seated), Managing Director of Make Your Mark Group (MYMG) converses with Karla Stephens-Hall, Financial Officer at Progressive Grocers of Jamaica Ltd and Jermane Blair, Branch Manager, Courts Portmore as she signs her book, The Middle Managers Development Guide at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel on Wednesday, April 26. The book was launched at the Middle Managers Leadership Conference 2023 which is staged by MYMG.
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Leading management consultant Dr Jacqueline Coke Lloyd has called for intense targeted training of Jamaican workers and the importation of specific skill sets as part of the solution to encourage rapid growth of the local economy.

Coke-Lloyd says a revision of education curricula at the secondary and tertiary levels is needed, as well as a look at what makes a wholesome society.

“There is unnecessary concern and panic regarding the importation of labour, as most growing successful and forward-thinking economies adopt this approach. Our own people migrate and are accepted elsewhere, so we can be strategic in injecting new thinking, skills and innovation. Many employers are unable to attract, retain and develop the required talent so therefore we need a bridging mechanism at this time,” states Coke-Lloyd, who is managing director of Make Your Mark Group.

She was delivering the opening remarks at this year’s staging of the Middle Managers’ Leadership Conference at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel in Kingston.

The two-day event is being held under the theme “Leading from the Middle with Courage, Authenticity and Vision”, and aims to educate and upskill mid-management personnel about the essentials of team management, organisation growth and management, and the tools needed to lead by example.

Coke Lloyd, a former CEO of the Jamaica Employers’ Federation noted that the advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AI) also calls for the reorganisation of businesses, retraining of teams and retirement of absolute systems and processes.

“We are in an exciting but time-sensitive period in our lives where we are called even more so now to execute our vision with courage and authenticity in order to maintain relevance,” she said.

Also speaking at the conference, Metry Seaga, President of the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica, commended MYMG for creating an incredible legacy by staging the conference for 13 years.

Underscoring the importance of the conference, Seaga revealed that a skills gap survey conducted in the first quarter of last year revealed that 42 per cent of respondents said management leadership or project management as a primary skill required by their company.

He said this finding was supported by data from the Ministry of Labour and Social Security which indicated that of the top occupational jobs advertised, 185 were for managerial and supervisory positions.

Commenting on the new technologies disrupting the workplace at this time, Seaga noted that a survey done in 2020 showed that by 2025, an estimated 85 million jobs will be displaced by technology, but that some 93 million jobs will be created during that same period. He urged companies to invest in their middle managers providing them with quality training and competitive salaries.

 

Shaping managers for the future…

 

Dr. Jacqueline Coke Lloyd (centre) with Industry, Investment and Commerce Minister Senator Aubyn Hill (left) and Reverend Dwight Fletcher

“The advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) calls for new thinking, reorganisation of our businesses, continuous evaluations and retirement of obsolete systems and processes.”

Dr. Jacqueline Coke Lloyd, Managing Director of the Make Your Mark Group, at the start of her conference to “prepare managers for the future, given cultural, global, economic and social shocks being experienced”.