Muscat,(ONA) - The activities of the “Effective Community Leadership” program organized by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Youth represented by the Centre for Preparing Sports Leaderships through visual conferencing with the aim of enhancing the participants' knowledge and developing their skills and abilities will continue until next Wednesday.
The course aims to maintain communication between the Sports Leadership Preparation Centre in sports institutions in light of the pandemic, develop their knowledge, skills and abilities, and prepare and qualify active youth sports leaders in various fields. The number of participants in the session reached 217 participants from various sports, youth and cultural sectors.
His Excellency Rashad bin Ahmed Al Hinai, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Youth for Sports and Youth, said in a speech during the opening of the session, “We value the active role that such courses and training seminars have produced and the importance of enhancing and disseminating knowledge that helps young people”, stressing the importance of developing youth programs for the advancement of the youth sector, identifying the needs and aspirations of youth in various sectors, and the importance of developing youth programs and linking them with their requirements, needs and interests, in order to enable young people to participate actively in the comprehensive development process.
Saif bin Saeed Al-Shibli, head of the work team supervising the course, said, “The course’s interactions and discussions enriched the theoretical aspect and enhanced knowledge in the field of community leadership, consolidating the concept of emotional intelligence in effective communication with youth and society, encouraging and motivating initiatives, influencing skills in the ability to direct. It has also provided the participants with many skills such as self-confidence, leadership skills and strategic thinking, as well as providing opportunities to learn about the experiences of youth participants from various sectors, who are in the interest of development to reach a true industry sport.”
He added, “The results achieved by the program expressed a sincere intention on the part of the participants to advance the self-level of youth, and to achieve the goals of the program in launching to horizons by transferring these experiences and knowledge to the younger generation, by drawing up a training policy that expresses a roadmap towards a bright future.”
Saif Al-Shibli explained, “The Sports Leadership Centre aims, by organizing this program, to several objectives, most notably the continuity of communication between the Sports Leadership Preparation Centre in sports institutions in light of the pandemic, developing the knowledge of individuals, raising the level of their skills and abilities, and changing the behaviour of individuals to reach the behaviour that achieves the desired performance.”
The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Youth is seeking through the Centre for Preparing Sports Leadership, which is considered one of the vital centres in the process of preparing sports leaders in the Sultanate and the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council for its membership in the Training Committee for Institutes and Centres for preparing leaders, and its membership in the Arab Federation for the Preparation of Arab Leaders to prepare workers in the sports industry sectors to interact professionally with the global requirements in order to deal with the market requirements in all respects. The content of the programs is directed towards studying the basic systems in managing sports institutions, organizational planning, marketing, investment, sponsorship, legislation, regulatory laws, accounting and financial systems for these institutions, as well as studying information systems technology that requires familiarity with some foreign languages and the skill of dealing with computers, and getting acquainted with the modern scientific assets of the sectors of the sports industry and basic sciences upon which work in its fields is based in line with the spirit of the age based on science, measurement and information.
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