31st May, 2017 The Public Service Commission is co-hosting a one-week training with The University of the South Pacific’s Pacific Islands Centre for Public Administration (PICPA) to develop and enhance the coaching and mentoring skills of line ministries team leaders’ to proper administer staff performance.
Funded by the Australian Government the training is set to improve the knowledge of participants on how to create coaching and mentoring plans for poor performers and to address the gaps of the existing Performance Management System (PMS) and to ensure the significance of ethical reporting.
Facilitator of the training Mr. Bevan Gray from the Korn Ferry Hay Group, New Zealand said, “Coaching and mentoring have key skills through self-awareness and social awareness based on connecting and understanding a person being coached at a emotional level. It can be formal or informal but our job as leaders are to empower them by building up relationships. This can also relate to asking the right question at the right time.”
Participants are expected to gain skills on how to coach and mentor poor performers through effective communication with their team. The training also reviews the coaching and mentoring skills used by participants and identifies its strengths and areas to be improved.
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