Workshop on Enhancing Managerial Effectiveness launched
By James Kon

The workshop participants in a group discussion as Abd Hamid looks on

 Twenty-five participants from both the private and the public sectors took part in a two-day Enhancing Management Effectiveness workshop which began at the Asean-EC Management Centre yesterday morning.

The workshop was officially launched by the Director of the Asean-EC Management Centre Awang Abdul Ghani bin Pg Haji Metusin.

In his speech, he said that in a competitive environment, continuous national and global changes will have a profound effect on the managers who must know not only the business dimensions, strategies, products and services, but also the capability of anticipating and interpreting customers' requirement.

He said that a good manager recognises what are the right things to do and that not every situation is the same. They must also know that people are the most important asset in every organisation. Therefore managers have to develop people in order to improve an organisation's work.

He stressed that the most effective managers are quick to act than they are to react, their best solution to any problem is to solve it before it becomes a problem in times of rapid changes. For individual managers, there is a constant pressure to upgrade skills and knowledge and to retain their status in the organisational systems and the labour market.

He hoped that the workshop would give the participants a better understanding on the job scope and roles of manager and they would practise the skills learned in their organisation.

The guest speaker for the workshop was Mr Abd Hamid bin Haji Abdullah, the Managing Director and Principal Managing Consultant of EMC Management Centre Sdn Bhd, EMC Management Consultancy Sdn, Bhd and Talent and Human Capital Solution Sdn Bhd.

Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin