23 SL senior corporate officials take part in leadership programme in Japan
View(s):Twenty-three senior officials from leading companies and organisations of Sri Lanka won a ‘rare opportunity’ to participate in a Senior Corporate Management Leadership Programme in Japan.
Seen here are the participants.
It was organised in collaboration with Japan Sri Lanka Technical and Cultural Association (JASTECA) and The Overseas Human Resources and Industry Development Association (HIDA) of Japan. HIDA of Japan is an organisation for human resource development in developing countries to promote technical cooperation through training, experts dispatch and other programmes.
JASTECA said the programme provided the opportunity for the participants to observe the leadership skills necessary to widen their perspectives as leaders and explore their own leadership styles.
Its objective was to deepen the participants understanding of the basics of leadership, the leadership skills necessary for senior corporate persons as directors and general managers and aim participants how to aspire to take leadership roles in companies. The group had the rare opportunity of visiting the Toyota Commemorative Museum of Industry and Technology, Toyota Motor Corp., Tsutsumi plant and Museum, The Entrepreneurial Museum of Challenge and Innovation, National Panasonic Museum, Ogura Co.Ltd, Muruya -HatchoMiso , eco-R Co.Ltd and Kirinjuku Co Ltd.
Sampath Senanayake, one of the participants said: “It was a valuable human capital development exercise where our lives will change immensely from now on for the betterment of our employers, economy, society and country. We have decided to become role models and change agents and exert greater influence on our country for the betterment of economic development”.