IRDP’s Executive Leaders Trained On Good Leadership Skills -

The topics trained during the workshop include integrity and leadership, leadership discipline, communications at work places, as well as protocol and civilization

By Senior Reporter VALENTINE OFORO

THE Executive leaders at the Institute of Rural Development Planning (IRDP) have received a professional training on good leadership, aiming to improve the skills of the leaders at diverse departments at the varsity.

Rolled out by The Tanzania Public Service College (TPSC) the timely three days clinic also focused to empower the Tanzania’s popular college to mould useful human resources who will play key role in fostering the country’s development in the near future.

Speaking with this publication at the climax of the training yesterday here, the IRDP Rector, Prof Hozen Mayaya said the received training was key to help propelling needed professionalism among the varsity’s leaders.

“During the training we got opportunity to learn a number of key topics, targeting to improve our daily performance, especially on leadership management as well as our engagement and working relations with other institutions,” he explained.

Going into specific details, he unveiled some among the key topics emerged during the training session.

“The topics were integrity and leadership,leadership discipline, communications at work places, as well as protocol and civilization,” he said.

Together with that, Prof Mayaya added that the other areas was emotional intelligence, the vital skill which according to him need to be embraced by leaders and staff at any institution.

” This training was facilitated by the high- profile leaders from TPSC and from different ministries and public institutions in the country,”

“For instance, the Chief Executive Office at the Chief Court Administrator of the Judiciary of Tanzania, Prof. Elisante Ole Gabriel was there to train us on emotional intelligence,” he informed.

The Professor expressed high optimism that the training will give the leaders of the Dodoma – based collect a fresh impetus to handle their daily roles more professional.

“With the training we’re also going to expand and cement of engagement and working ties with other colleges within and outside the country, but also with the diverse institutions that we’re working with in our daily executions,” he said.

The Institute of Rural Development Planning (IRDP) is a corporate body established by the Parliamentary Act No. 8 of 1980.

Since its establishment, IRDP has been shaping destinies in planning and research methodologies focusing on the future prosperity of its students.