Workshop on effective negotiation skills
By Lyna Mohammad

Director ASEAN-FC Management Centre delivers his speech 

 
Taking part in a workshop on 'Effective Negotiation Skill'

The Director of ASEAN-EC Management Centre, Awang Abd Ghani Pg Hj Metusin, yesterday officiated a two-day workshop on "Effective Negotiation Skill". In his welcoming speech, Awg Abd Ghani explained that the programme was designed to equip participants with the skills and knowledge needed to help steer their organisation through the 'tides of change' as the current competitive economic environment has compelled organisations to strive for higher levels of productivity, quality and more efficient service.

"Negotiation skills are an integral part of not just the corporate world, but our day-to-day life and gives us the power to transform even our most difficult relationships into winning ones. In short, the purpose of negotiation is to achieve - through discussion and argument - an agreement acceptable to all parties," the director said.

The director also noted that the management centre would continue to provide training which are poised towards creating skilful, disciplined, trained, motivated and high quality human resources.

Which can move in the same pace with the diverse and knowledge-based socio-economy of our country, in order to support the government initiative in the 8th NDP, whereby Human Resource development will continue to be one of the main thrusts for the years to come.

The three main lines of activities that are now in the plan, he said, are policy dialogue work at the interface of the public-private sectors, focusing on key areas of economic policy-making and management development in Brunei with particular topics such as knowledge economy and other issues such as corporate responsibility.

They will also be co-organising and contributing to, respectively, regional events relating to ASEAN and East Asia economic integration as well as to continue to contribute in the existing human resources services for the Brunei Enterprises and management professional in the form of short training and workshop activities.

Due to the overwhelming response from participants, the workshop, organised by ASEAN-EC, was divided into two groups where out of the 46 participants, more than 50 per cent of the participants came from the public sector, comprising of senior government officers, managers and academics.

The speaker, Mr Mohd Adam Mohd Said, President and Principal Consultant of Irshad Consulting, is currently leading the Business Improvement Process and Change Management Information System Project for the government of Malaysia - a flagship electronic government application under the Multimedia Super Corridor Initiative.

Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin