Training News
Skip Navigation LinksHome > News > Training News > DV Talent Launches CCTV Leadership Scheme

DV Talent Launches CCTV Leadership SchemeDV Talent Launches CCTV Leadership Scheme

News release 22/02/2010

Reith. Grade. De Mol. You?

Are you ready to be TV’s next pioneer?

The television industry is changing. And fast.

Now a major new personal development and training programme - CCTV - is being launched to help the next generation of creative leaders adapt and thrive.

This ground-breaking, 12-month scheme will equip a select group of 25 ambitious executives and producers with the skills - both personal and professional - needed to help steer the TV industry into the digital future.

Supported by the Skillset TV Freelance Fund – the project is the recipient of the TVFF’s largest-ever grant - and many of the leading names in broadcasting and beyond, CCTV focuses on developing the management and leadership skills, practical business knowledge, industry profile and cross-industry network needed for the pioneers of tomorrow to succeed.

Over the year, the 25 successful applicants will receive one-on-one mentoring from a senior industry figure, personal development coaching, strategic business training, seminars, workshops and events hosted by many of the creative industry’s best known names including Jana Bennett, Pete Smith, Peter Fincham, Wayne Garvie and Stephen Garrett.

So if you have a proven track record in TV or an associated industry, want to learn how to adapt and flourish in a rapidly changing world, hone your career, launch or build a business, raise your profile of senior contacts, or simply recharge your thinking, then CCTV is looking for you.

Kate O’Connor, Skillset’s Executive Director of Policy and Development, said: “CCTV is an incredibly exciting training programme, a practical remedy to some major hurdles and challenges. It is designed by industry to be very flexible and responsive to the rapidly changing climate.”

Peter Dale, TV Skills Council Chair and board member of the Indie Training Fund (ITF), said: “The economic downturn has placed a considerable strain on the television industry. At the same time producers and broadcasters are coming to terms with big changes across the media landscape. The CCTV Programme is there to enable key talent to tackle these challenges head-on.”

Jill Tandy, programme director of CCTV, said: "The support of Skillset and so many of the industrys top practitioners for this scheme comes at the right time for the television industry. It is the leaders with the confidence to adapt, the broader business skills and cross-industry contact network who will be best placed to embrace the rapid changes and turn uncertainty into opportunity."

CCTV is run by DV Talent in partnership with Jill Tandy and Janet Evans, and is supported by Pact, Olswang and Grant Thornton. The programme is funded by the Skillset TV Freelance Fund.

Application forms can be downloaded from www.cc-tv.org.uk or requested from the CCTV office on
0207 267 2300 or email cctv@dvtalent.co.uk

The deadline for applications is 18th March 2010.





< back