The Institute of Public Administration offered a “super reporter” course for 18 reporters and office staff from various government bodies and ministries in the Kingdom, in order to familiarize them with the best ways of good planning in managing tasks according to priorities, and learning different methods in dealing with different personalities encountered by the employee.
This course comes for the first time within the program of short courses designed to improve the performance of staff to commensurate with the Bahrain Economic Vision 2030, through focusing on certain capabilities and specific developmental skills in every training course, also it aims to develop the personalities of reporters through the development of their skills in the field of their work at government institutions, as the trainees will be able to identify their basic duties as super reporters, in addition to identifying the importance of communication and its applications in the work environment, and mastering administrative and behavioral skills necessary for exercising reporter works in various real-world situations which serve social and learning sides of the trainees.
The super reporter course included several key areas as follows: (behavioral and psychological skills, planning and setting goals and schedules for the work of the reporter, besides planning and organizing time, which solves many problems and ensures production of a greater quantity of work per day, and skills of documentation, in addition to effective communication skills and dealing protocol with superiors and subordinates), the course also shed light on guests reception skills, ceremonies and the mechanism to receive instructions and recording them.
It is worth mentioning that the course is offered for the first time within the short training plan, that discussed real life situations experienced by employees, it received excellent attendance and requests to repeat it in the near future, as it presents advanced skills that develop staff and make them always and utterly ready to deal with different personalities and sectors without hesitation.