“Leadership is about the daily application of critical thinking, decision-making and problem solving. You are all returning to your places of work empowered. The challenge now is to apply what you have learned to better that environment.”
Those were the words of Chief of Staff, Brigadier Mark Phillips as he delivered remarks at the end of a five-day Psychology of Leadership Course, which was conducted at Base Camp Ayanganna from July 25 to 29.
A release from the GDF said that the course, was part of the curriculum of the GDF’s Senior Command and Staff Course number 14 (SCSC #14), the capstone course for Officers training in the army. During the Psychology of Leadership Course, the 16 Officers attending the SCSC #14 were joined by Principal Personnel Secretary of the Ministry of Social Protection Shelton Daniels, Deputy Personnel Secretaries, Joylyn Nestor-Burrowes, Kim Stephen, and Collette Adams of the Ministries of Agriculture, Ministry of Business, and the Ministry of Public Health respectively.
Course Facilitator, Senior Lecturer at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, retired Colonel Ronnie McCourt commended the participants’ enthusiasm for learning. A specialist in Applied Behavioural Science, Colonel McCourt, is a faculty member in the Department of Communication and Behavioural Science at Sandhurst. “I have not told these students what is or is not a specific modular application that will work. Rather, I have provided them with inputs and new perspectives of approaching and doing things. It is for them to apply the knowledge they have gained in their respective environments.”
