PIM trains BoC Managers

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Executive development programs provide a rich learning experience designed to help organisations develop the executive level talent needed for the long-run. With sessions on strategic, financial management, communication skills, innovations and best management practices, participants are able to put lessons learned into practice so as to benefit their careers and organisations immediately.

Making a difference as a manager today and tomorrow requires integrated solid, tried-and-true management skills with innovative approaches that emphasise the human touch, enhanced flexibility, and the engaging of employees’ hearts and minds, as well as their bodies. Successful departments and organisations don’t just happen – they are managed to be that way.

Managers in every organisation have the opportunity to make a difference. To be successful, every organisation needs skilled managers.

Focusing on these objectives, and more specifically to enhance and improve the soft skills of key managerial personnel the Bank of Ceylon liaised with the Postgraduate Institute of Management (PIM), the pioneer and the nation’s school of business, with a view to upgrading the bank’s key managers.

The Management Development Program (MDP) for key management personnel of the BoC was inaugurated with the participation of PIM Director Professor Uditha Liyanage and BoC General Manager W.A Nalini. The PIM’s faculty and 60 participants following the program attended the inaugural session.

The program containing 15 modules aims at participants’ conceptual development as well as the enhancement of soft skills contributing to achieve personal excellence. Bias for action, emotional intelligence and multiple intelligences, creativity and innovation are some specific skills that will go to make a person an effective teammate.

Another key component built into the program is leadership. Leadership is an evolving phenomenon. An MDP prepares leaders to become better leaders by equipping themselves with evolving concepts of leadership. In fact, an MDP provides ideas that enable one to spend less time “putting out fires” and more time, providing forward-thinking leadership. An MDP also helps administrators to lead in ways that support larger institutional objectives, enabling them to incorporate broader strategic considerations into management decisions.