CILTNA is an educational institution. Everything we do increases people’s knowledge and understanding. We have four main ways of doing it.
Executive insights
Pedagogical studies consistently show that mature students learn best from their own colleagues in open exchange, not from textbooks and lectures given by a “sage on the stage”. Structured education programs work for most early-stage learners but rarely for anyone in mid-career and beyond.
CILTNA’s informal networks also contribute to mature learning by enabling senior executives, senior managers, and policy-makers to discuss and probe all manner of complex, high-level subjects in which they are personally invested.
“All the top achievers I know are life-long learners.”
CILTNA serves the mature part of the learning spectrum by providing executive-level insights for senior leaders, as well as for others aspiring to senior positions. We bring thinkers and subject-matter experts from around the world and feature them at all our events—chapter meetings, webinars, and Outlook conferences. They explore complex, systems-level problems and trends at a national and global scale in open exchanges that help participants see and understand important things in ways they hadn’t appreciated before.
CILTNA’s informal networks also contribute to mature learning by enabling senior executives, senior managers, and policy-makers to discuss and probe all manner of complex, high-level subjects in which they are personally invested.
“A person’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. .”
In-house training and development
The world is a complex place. Most organizations are busy executing their strategies and trying to serve their customers and constituents. So busy, in fact, they often can’t find the time or the sources of knowledge and information to grasp how the world of logistics and transport is currently evolving and the threats and opportunities that will soon be upon them.
CILTNA’s network of global experts can put together programs to help organizations develop their people, from new hires to senior executives, and help them understand events and trends in the world of logistics and transport. We draw these experts from CILTNA’s membership and board of directors, and from a vast network of colleagues and collaborators in principal countries of the world. The programs are tailored to meet the specific needs of the organization.
Accreditation
Graduates of colleges and universities usually have more early-career opportunities from which to choose if their alma mater is more widely recognized than if it isn’t. That is especially true for careers involving international business and activities, like logistics and transportation, because employers and supply-chain partners who are not in the same country as the educational institution often don’t have good information about its bona fides or the calibre of its graduates.
CILTNA helps increase that recognition by accrediting the programs of colleges and universities to standards set by CILT International. The standards are recognized and accepted in more than 30 principal countries around the world. Graduates from these programs start their careers with credentials to their name that can make a difference.
We accredit post-secondary educational institutions on request, after conducting a careful analysis of the curriculum’s content, evaluation methods, and instructors’ credentials.
Mentoring
CILTNA is pilot-testing a mentorship program designed to help recent graduates navigate their early careers in supply chains, logistics, and transport, and to give them tools and confidence to grow in their careers and progress farther and sooner than they otherwise would.
“Everybody who makes it, has a mentor.”
Mentoring is a way of having senior people pass along insight they acquired during their careers, in order to broaden the cognitive and emotional “reach” of less-senior people in understanding how complex systems and relationships work.
“If you want to know the road ahead, ask someone coming back.”
Mentoring also involves peer-to-peer sharing of insight among people at a similar stage in their careers to help each other solve problems that are common in the workplace.
“Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don’t”
We anticipate having the pilot program underway by the Fall of 2023 and rolled out on a broader scale by about the summer of 2024. Please check for updates periodically.