The Association of Pharmaceutical Trainers (APT) in partnership with PSTD brings you

their accreditation program on

“TEAM ALIGNMENT”

on July 20-22, 2011 at Astoria Plaza, Pasig City

A special discount will be given to PSTD members.

For details please call: 4673669

WE ARE PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THE NEW SET OF BOARD OF TRUSTEES AND

EXECUTIVE OFFICERS OF THE PHILIPPINE SOCIETY FOR TRAINING

AND DEVELOPMENT THE NEW BOARD AND EXECOM WILL SERVE PSTD

FROM JULY 1, 2011- JUNE 30, 2012.

LIZA HIZON – Chairman of the Board

SERELY ALCARAZ – Vice Chairman

GERRY PLANA – Auditor / Good Governance

MILALIN JAVELLANA – President

PIDO AGUILAR – VP for Internal Affairs

ADRIAN ROBLES – VP for External Affairs

OLINE TIAMSON – Corporate Secretary

VIVIEN ARNOBIT – Treasurer

OLEN LIM – Public Relations Officer

ELVIE RODORA TARROBAL – Trustee

FE MARIE CABANTAC – Trustee

JOYCE DY – Trustee

THESS VALERIO – Trustee

JEM ARINO – Trustee

JESS REBUSTILLO – Trustee / Ex-Officio

Welcome our new PSTD Officers for 2011-2012!

President-elect MILALIN JAVELLANA (Phil-Australia HR-OD Facility-PAHRODF)

Vice-President-elect for Internal Affairs PIDO AGUILAR, JR. (Abundance!)

Vice-President-elect for External Affairs ADRIAN ROBLES, (MERALCO)

Secretary-elect OLINE TIAMSON, (Wyeth Philippines, Inc.)

Treasurer-elect VIVIEN ARNOBIT, (MMLDC)

Public Relations Officer-elect OLEN LIM, (OJL Consulting Group)

Let us thank all the outgoing 20010-2011 Board of Trustees for their relentless and generous service to the Society and offer our full support to the incoming Board!

GO! Go! PSTD – Moving toward the Philippines as the Training Hub of Asia!

 The 1st PSTD Annual WLP “Gawad Maestro” Awards seek to honor and recognize individuals and organizations that have demonstrated leadership and creativity in improving performance.

The following are the categories, namely:

• Outstanding Workplace Learning Professional,
• Outstanding Workplace Learning Manager
• Outstanding Workplace Learning Organizational Champion
• Outstanding Workplace Learning Program
• Outstanding Workplace Learning Leader Extraordinaire

The Gawad Maestro Award is open to organizations from all industries, such as manufacturing, financial services, BPO, transportation, communications, utilities, retail, professional services, healthcare, and all sectors, such as private business, government and non-government and individuals in the practice of Workplace Learning and Performance. Finalists will be notified through courier and electronic mail and the winners honored during the Gawad Maestro Awards Ball. (Details will be released soon.)

Winners shall receive a special Gawad Maestro optic crystal statuette and recognition through press releases, case studies, and other outlets.

Deadline for submission of nominations is on June 6, 2010. For inquiries, please call 7038789 or email 1stpstdawards2011@gmail.com or secretariat@pstd.org .





As the Philippine Society for Training & Development holds its 37^th National Convention at the Apo View Hotel in Davao City on May 17-19, 2011, some members of its Board of Trustees (BOTs) will be handing on the torch to others after serving the board and the society for one short but fruitful year. All these BOT members are practitioners and executives from the different companies or organizations, who have generously lent their expertise and time in serving the organization whose aim is to advocate organizational results through workplace learning and development and to professionalize practitioners of the field. But as the policy of the society goes, of the 11 eleven members of the boards, only six of them (those who topped in the number of votes) will continue to serve for another year, while the others will have to be replaced by new members elected by the majority of the membership.

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Did you know that every 4^th week of May is officially the Manpower Training and Development Week in our country? This was declared by the late President Ferdinand Marcos through Proclamation No. 1142 (05-10-1973).

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