Participants who attended a five-day “train the trainer” workshop last week say they have gained new insights into the importance of training within organisations.

According to them, they have also enhanced their ability to design training curriculums, prepare courses, manage training projects as well as carry out more professional training needs assessments for more relevant training.

They were speaking at the Seychelles Institute of Management (SIM), Ma Joie, where the principal secretary for the Ministry of Administrations and Manpower Development Mr Mohamed Afif, presented them with certificates.

The course they followed was facilitated by the head of Malaysia’s Communication and Training Development Centre, Ms Lee Meng Foon.

Earlier, Mr Afif had said that both the private and public sectors would increasingly look to SIM to mould competent professional managers and administrators at all levels. He said as SIM embarked on its 26th year, it was determined to take on its expanding roles with determination and dedication.

“Human resource development has been pinpointed at several times as a key factor in the success of an efficient public service.  SIM thus recognises the importance of ensuring that those who train are properly trained themselves,” he said.

The participants also recalled that as SIM celebrated its 25th anniversary two weeks ago, its director general, Mrs Lucy Athanasius Ahweng, had said that as new technologies reshaped the world, people must reshape and renew their base of knowledge and skills towards new approaches to workforce training and approaches that call on partnerships with training institutions where it becomes a user and a provider.

On Friday November 7, she said the institute had taken the first initiative along this line by organising the “Train the trainers” workshop which focused on the establishment of greater consistency and accountability in the design and delivery of programmes.

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