Golf And Leadership Course At AEMC
By CT Hj Mahmod

Bandar Seri Begawan - The ASEAN-EC Management Centre (AEMC) is introducing a three-day `Corporate Golf and the Game of Leadership' programme in collaboration with the Counseling Services unit of the Public Service Department.

AEMC said it has created a niche in the country's training industry by fusing its leadership course with the applied principles of Corporate Golf, a fun game most loved among executives and directors playing the leadership role in their organisation.

It is believed the ultimate climate for developing leadership potential is produced when one has an effective model to observe and principles to practice, and these principles can be learnt through Corporate Golf and the Game of Leadership.

Thirty executives and directors from government and private sectors including Prime Minister's Office, Attorney General Chambers, and Brunei Economic Development Board, joined the course, which started yesterday.

The course employs the six-step M.A.S.T.E.R plan to ensure the topic is fully explored in a multi-sensory, multi-intelligence way and techniques used to lock it all down. What is interesting for the participants, who are golfers themselves, is the combination of interactive facilitation methods involving corporate golf activities, driving range and short game activities, and 9-hole golf format.

Mr. Mokhtar Ismail, a professional golfer with over 15 yrs of experience in golf and motivational training in US, together with his highly trained and experienced leadership colleagues, James C. Nolan and. Johari Ismail, will facilitate this course.

AEMC Director, Awg Abd Ghani said leaders could learn a great deal form watching golfers from a different perspective. Using the game of golf, corporate leadership skills are immediately applied, supervised, and at the same time enjoyed.

He believed leadership is developed, not discovered and a truly born leader will always emerge but to stay on top, natural leadership characteristics must stay developed, and encouraged participants to learn new corporate and executive leadership skills on "playing the game" both in the work place and on the golf course.

Noting that yesterday's speech is Abdul Ghani's final speech delivered as the AEMC Director before his retirement, he hoped there would be the same public's support or even more towards the centre in realising their vision as a 'Centre of Excellence'.

Dato Hj Abd Jalil bin Abd Rahman, Head of Counseling Services unit, highlighted the interest for this joint collaboration. He said the programme's objectives have a direct bearing on the unit's duties and responsibilities.

In particular, such programme falls under the `Developmental Counseling' concerned with enhancing the capacity and skills of individuals and providing opportunities to realise their full potential and inspire their efforts to become effective and skillful leaders.

This dismisses the notion that counseling is reserved only for people with emotional and mental problems, he added. -- Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin

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