Department
of Personnel and Training (DoPT) Secretary Sanjay Kothari wants to
improve the skills of the top civil servants so DoPT has constituted a
board of National Facilitators who will run different training
programmes for officers. The facilitators on board are former Coal
Secretary SK Shrivastava, former Agriculture Secretary Anup Kumar
Thakur, National Shipping Board Chairman Vishwapati Trivedi and former
retired Urban Development Secretaries Sudhir Krishna and Upendra Nath
Bora. This high-powered group has planned “high quality” training
modules in association with the United Nations Development Programme.
The programme will start with the screening of Sydney Lumet’s 1957
classic, 12 Angry Men, to sharpen the leadership skills of top
bureaucrats, emphasising ethics and values through this film. It offers
lessons on building consensus among persons with different personalities
from different backgrounds. The focus will be on bureaucrats
“comprehending the power of influence in the functioning of leadership,
relating to the traits and behaviours associated with leadership and
dealing with multiple stakeholders in a complex and multicultural
environment”. The UNDP has prepared the two-day module on leadership at
the request of the DoPT. “The entire programme will have the following
ethos interspersing all sessions — accountability,
creativity/possibility thinking, going within, positivity, positive
vision and inspiring goals, actions: What is mine to do?” as per the
course module. Leading a stress-free as well as a “wholesome life in all
dimensions” will also be a part of the ‘Ethics and Values’ module. The
film 12 Angry Men (in 1986, Indian director Basu Chatterjee remade it as Ek Ruka Hua Faisla)
is the story of how 12 jurors are asked to reach a unanimous decision
on whether a person is guilty or not, with the accused set to receive a
death sentence if the jury finds him guilty. The film shows how a lone
juror who had doubts about the evidence manages to win over his 11
colleagues. g
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