AP Director Soy Socheat Steps Up for VBNK Management Training

AP Director of Programs, Soy Socheat, with

Sengkry, Roth and Theara. 

Staff training is an important focus for Aziza’s Place as a means of developing the capacity of individual staff members and in turn, developing the organization itself. This month Aziza’s Place Director of Programs, Soy Socheat, attended a Management Course run by VBNK – a local organization focused on improving the effectiveness and quality of development practice and management in the social development sector in Cambodia. To do this VBNK offers management and leadership development training courses, facilitation, coaching and consultancy for local and international organizations working within this sector.

Socheat participated in VBNK’s five-day management workshop, ‘Managing Your People’, which provides managers with effective Human Resource Management tools so they can improve the performance of their organization. The topics the course covered included:

• Dynamic roles and competencies of managers
• How to work effectively with different views of people in the workplace
• Methods of delegation and staff motivation
• Building teams through effective communication
• Individual and organizational learning
• Implementing effective appraisal and evaluation systems for staff

Previously Socheat has had little formal training in the field of Management and so he was eager to enhance his capabilities with outside support from specialists. He said the training taught him valuable tools and processes that can make a difference to the effectiveness of the organization as a whole. He said he enjoyed hearing about ways for staff to be motivated, for goal-setting and evaluation, for effective relationship-building and communication from a management perspective, and for staff to build their skills within the workplace and develop as individuals, making for an environment of growth and learning. He came away with a multitude of new perspectives and insights which he was excited to absorb and now implement within his Director role at Aziza’s Place.