The Public Service Commission Board underwent training on Leadership Development to enhance their capacity to lead and improve public servants’ performance and navigation through shocks, change and disruption.
The Commonwealth Fund for Technical Cooperation (CFTC) sponsored the four-day training programe, which started on 27th to 30th June 2023 at Sarova Woodlands Hotel in Nakuru.
The lead facilitator, Dr. Roger Koranteng, an Adviser and Head of Public Sector Governance, Governance and Peace Directorate observed that Integrative leadership skills allow the public sector leaders to respond to new and diverse ethical issues promptly.
“Leadership skills facilitate the public sector leader to distinguish between ethical and unethical acts,” he stated.
He added that public sector leaders require various technical, conceptual and interpersonal skills and other skills like emotional and social intelligence to enable them to diffuse and establish core ethical values in the organization.
Dr. Koranteng noted that effective leadership is integral to organizational effectiveness. Effective leaders create positive organizational cultures, strengthen motivation, clarify mission and organizational objectives, and steer organizations to more productive and high-performing outcomes.
Speaking at the end of the programe, PSC Chairperson Amb Anthony Muchiri said that the programme provided the participants with invaluable competencies, skills, and knowledge based on best practices in managing and leading the Public Service Commission and the larger public service in Kenya.
“We are all obliged to practice the values more rigorously and mentoring and sensitizing others about them” he stated.
The program's objectives were to help build a broader strategic mindset, improve innovation and performance, and ensure resilience and sustainability; take a holistic approach to ethical values and institutionalise integrity in the management and decision-making in the public service, and strengthen all aspects of corporate governance.
The co-facilitator at the training was Mr. Dunstan Maina, Public Administration Adviser, Public Sector Governance Unit, Commonwealth Secretariat, London, UK.