Preparing for two trainings at the same time!!

Preparing for two trainings at the same time

Hi everyone!!

have you ever had a a chance, I dont know if i can call it a chance, to prepare for two different trainings at the same time?

Here is mine xperience

Training on monitoring, evaluation and reporting for staff of the Federal Civil Service Ministy of Ethiopia. It is a quite interesting topic and I think I am very good at it considering my experience in facilitating similar trainings in different contexts such as Project planners, Strategic Planners and operation paln implementation staff of different organizations.

The second training is on Modular curriculum development and module writing for the senior staff of the federal police short term training department. It is my pleasure to facilitate this training considering that I am, may be, the first freelance trainer who started consulting institutions on Modular Curriculum Development in the Context of Ethiopian Education system. I am also proud that I am contributing towards the better undertaning of the issues through my practical work in consulting the same in sutitution two years before and working in areas related to that.

I will post my training documents after the traning is conducted

See you then
Take care.

Courses on International Learning and Global Citizenship

For those who are interested to konw more about online courses on International Learning and Global Citizenship. More course are coming in for free.

The course I completed and certified for so far are:

1. International learning- getting started
2. Educationa for Global Citizenship
3. Inter cultural and global awarness and
4. Sustainable partnership

Enjoy the courses and make a difference in your life, work experience and insight about the world. You can use the following link to access the courses.



http://connectingclassrooms-learning.britishcouncil.org/mycourses


Good Luck

Research Competencies framework

For that last three weeks I have been busy with coordinating a team that is working on the production on a research competency framework that helps:

1. Identify the competencies required of researchers working for the Ethiopian Civil Service University. 
2. Identify the gaps (knowledge, Skills and behavior) of the researchers in the University so as to produce a quality research piece
3. Facilitate the process of capacity development activities
4. Guide research practices complementing the Research Police and guideline available
5. Serve as a tool to enable production of quality research work.

We have referred different documents on competencies and framework production, research practices. We have also visited some research centers and learned the practices they follow in
1. Granting fund to research works
2. Select proposals for funding
3. Choose reviewers and evaluators of research works

The information collected this way were used to building on the framework that we have aspired.

Last Thursday, Jan 28, 2013 was a day of success. We produced the first draft of the document. I am glad that our consultants National School of Government International (UK) appreciated the work.

Next time I will come with what happened afterwards.

Cheers

Global Citizenship

Global citizenship is a project of the British Council under the program of Connected Classrooms. The project is aimed at  fostering the thinking and facilitating the transformation of citizen in school systems in different prats of the world to Global Citizen.

Though the concept of Global Citizenship has been there for long time, such kind of organised and purposeful practice of facilitating the change in the education system of schools in some selected countries involved in the project.

The major contents of the training include:

• Exploring Global Citizenship 
• Intercultural practice 
• International Learning
• Partnership Journey

The first step I involved myself was in securing certificates in all the online courses managed by University of London, College of Education.



The second step in the procedure that I involved myself in this project was in taking part in the validation training that took place in Addis Ababa.

The last three stages of Balanced Scorecard System are:

Automation
Cascading and
Evaluation of the system

The the case of automation, organizations need to consider the relevance of using softwares that enable registration and monitoring results. This serves two important purposes.
1. Identify problems and help to design strategies to bring them into the right truck
2. Provide information for evaluation of performance at the end of a given period.

An importnat point to conder here is that the software we choose needs to be easy to handle and should provide relelvant information.

Cascading is all about bringing the strategic objectives of organizations to the levels of departments and individuals. It is a very esssential step where departmental and individual roles are clearly identified and responsibilites are provided. Results to be acheived at all levels need to be made crystal clear to everyone at every level at this stage so as to issure success.

Evalaution of a Balanced Scorecard implemented in an organization needs to be given a great attention. Sources confirm that the first year of implementation of BSC is a very critical period to put the system in place and make sure that relevant pitfalls are properly addressed. For this, strategies need to be disigned to conduct the evalaution of the BSC system all along for development purpose.

So, what are you thinking about improving the performance of your organization?
Give it a try and make the most out of BSC.

Good Luck
Getachew Melaku
Consultant in Perforamnce Management and Planning

What is Job Performance?

What is Performance Management these days in Businesses and Public Sectors.

Is it all about going to work everyday, accomplishing your daily duties, and reporting that you performed what is given to you through your JD?

I think this definition of Performance Management has now expired. One need to consider the RESULT from the activities one is performing and relate it to the strategic objectives of the department that he is working and later to the organizational strategic objectives. For this we need to learn more about how to do things.

Balanced Scorecard is one of the performance management tools that help us achieve what we aspire in our daily life and job responsibilities as mentioned above.

Balance Scorecard is Management, Measurement and Communication tool.

1. Strategic review of organizational capacity and customer objectives
2. Design strategic themes
3. Design strategic Objectives
4. Map your objectives
5. Identify the measures and place targets of your objectives
6. Design strategic Initiatives to facilitate implementation of your Objectives 

learn more about it form me.

Thank You

What happened to facebook page?

Can Somebody tell me what happened to my facebook account?

Is there anyone experiencing difficulty in opening his/her facebook account? I have started seeing a message as showing in the screen case image below since 8:00 pm last night in UK time.

 Hope things will be in place soon.