PANAJI
In a collaboration between public and private sectors, over 400 employees of the Goa government’s Industrial Technical Institute (ITI), including instructors, non-teaching staff and senior officials, were upskilled in communication, pedagogy, innovation, life-skills, stress management and other critical aspects, as part of a unique training programme conducted jointly by the State government’s Directorate of Skill Development (DSDE), and Goa Institute of Management (GIM).
The training programme which was designed in 2019, was aimed at enhancing the capability of ITI’s in Goa to enhance knowledge, skill and capability of teachers, sensitising the institute’s leaders on institutional development and positively developing the attitude of the institute’s non-teaching staffers.
The 400-plus employees were drawn from a cross-section of hierarchies of 10 ITIs in the State, for the training programme which spanned four months and was hosted at the GIM campus at Sanquelim recently.
“Each group attended two-and-a-half day sessions, where crucial skills were imparted through discussion, knowledge sessions and interactive activities to the participants. This intensive and interactive process was practically implemented by the attendees, who put into practice the newly acquired skills at their institutes for weeks, after which they presented their feedback to the GIM via a presentation,” stated Dr Ajit Parulekar, director, GIM.
According to the Health Minister, the vision behind the collaborative initiative was to encourage and skill the ITI staff to train and nurture students in order to develop them as assets for the industry.
The skill development focus for the leadership faculty was on leadership, imparting know-how about taking new initiative with respect to placements, industry-connect, resiliency and time management content. The instructor faculty was encouraged to teach students in new innovative ways, inductive methods, adequacy, stress-management, resilience, and various other methods, while the focus for the non-teaching staff was to enhance their own life-skills, relationships with co-workers.
