Dr Nay Htut Ko Ko is a Programme Associate for World Vision, Myanmar. In 2009 he attended the IMDP course on Leading Management Teams. We spoke with him after the course to ask him about his experiences and how he has been using his training in his work.
“My daily routine at work is communicating with my TB implementing teams, monitoring and evaluation, and strengthening donor relationships. The core responsibility that I have is to effectively support a TB project that is being implemented in five townships in Myanmar. I also look after projects in malaria and HIV, but TB is my main project.
Since I attended the Leading Management Teams course a lot of my thoughts and behavior have changed. I have become an active listener who really cares about what my subordinates are saying. I have become a better strategic planner in certain tasks, and my commitment for TB projects also has been raised. I am now trying to make my supervisor and subordinates more of a team and also mentor some of my people.
Because of the course, I’ve started to do more team building among my staff members. I've used some of the Leadership Style Assessment tools that I learned in the course to further assess our team members’ behaviors and styles. Thanks for those really useful tools!
In addition, I now give more feedback to every report that is sent in by my team which I didn't do previously, pointing out issues and problems that arise. I’ve become an active listener who doesn't look for a person's faults but instead for the facts that are really affecting a project’s implementation. These are the obvious changes in me and in my team after my training with the International Management Development Programme.” |
