NSRLM managerial training underway

Dimapur, Dec 5 (EMN): In an effort to upgrade managerial skills of its employees, Nagaland State Rural Livelihoods Mission (NSRLM) has organised a three-day managerial training and team building exercise which got underway at Resource Centre of Land Resource Department, Ruzaphema village, Dimapur, on December. NSRLM is on a mission to alleviate poverty in the State. It has a daunting target of covering 1.5 lakh rural poor households by 2021. Building strong women-run institutions, generating self-employment and wage employment, skilling youth for placements, promoting sustainable farm and non-farm livelihoods and building efficient human resource were the sustainability goals of the mission. Trivikram, national mission manager of NMMU- MoRD cum state anchor for Nagaland; Shivaji N Choudhury, national resource person of NMMU; and M Rollan Lotha, COO (Programmes) of NSRLM; were the resource persons of the training. Delivering the keynote address, Athel O Lotha, Additional Secretary and Mission Director of NRLM, has acknowledged the performance of the mission staff at various levels despite hurdles and challenges. She added that the training is an opportunity for both personal and professional growth. She stated that as managers and coordinators, the responsibilities are threefold namely to supervise and motivate; to ensure effective and efficient programme implementation; and to act as a link or catalyst between community institutions key stakeholders, related government departments and other external donors towards resource diversification for sustainability. While encouraging the participants to make good use of the three-day programme, she stated that such capacity building programmes offer good prospects to de-learn and relearn as well as to have a whole new perspective in looking at things objectively. She hoped that through the learning in the programme, the mission would bring about substantial positive change in the lives of the poor and marginalised sections of the society. Spelling out the objective of the training, M Rollan Lotha, asserted that the training is aimed at equipping staff with managerial skill and to enable the team inculcate team spirit and enhance work culture for maximum productivity. He further reiterated on the importance of ‘building efficient human resource to address issues of poverty in the state’ where professional social work culture is consciously promoted both at staff and community level comprising of development professionals performing dynamic and static roles. Giving a short introduction, Trivikram said a manager is there to lead the people from the front and by example to get work done. The training would focus on managerial and related skills while also working on staff performance plan and assessment alongside various other activities. The training is a first of its kind for the mission and would become an annual event.