Guided by the Royal Kasho on civil service reforms, a Public Service Executive Development programme for expanding leadership and leadership statements for the executives is underway in the capital. The two-day workshop is the first of its kind for the executives and intends to expose the leaders to the cutting-edge concepts of leadership.
“Ever since we receive the Royal Kasho during the National Day from His Majesty, I think this workshop particularly intended to ensure that executives at our level can also take a role and be more efficient and also be more visionary and how we can contribute towards bringing this reforms. So therefore this workshop is mainly to help us understand where we are at this moment and how we can do our part for our organisations, for our team as well as for the Nation. So basically it’s a strength to put forward what we need to do at this point of time at the civil service system,” said Nagtsho Dorji, the Director for Department of Culture under the Ministry of Home and Cultural Affairs.
The capacity building leadership workshop is expected to provide an avenue for the leaders to plan and also to achieve a tangible outcome that can be a reference for the RCSC later for the management and development of executives.
“With the leadership statements, we have five capabilities for the five areas through which an executive can actually work to introduce new initiatives like for example if an organization is into service delivery and if they have not been doing so well on that area, they can actually work on improving the service delivery with this leadership statement or if they had collaborated with other agency and they have not been doing a good job in collaboration, the leadership statements actually provide that avenue,” said Louise Monger, the officiating chief HR officer for the Executive and Specialist Management Division with the RCSC.
She also said the workshop will provide a common understanding to all the executives on the requirement of their leadership statement.
During the workshop, the executives will be introduced to leading transformational changes including the tools for reframing the organizations to make it more agile to adapt to the needs of changing times.
“Personally, I am looking forward to learning from this training so that I can take back and work with my staff to transform the organization. Basically, it is geared towards the reform for civil service. This training is going to help me and encourage them further to work together and help reform the civil service,” said Gelay Norbu, the Director of the National Land Commission.
The first batch of 27 executives is attending the leadership workshop which is being organized by Royal Civil Service Commission and facilitated by Dr Douglas O’Loughlin who is an associate at the Civil Service College in Singapore.
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Edited by Sonam
