Name: Bernadette Aliklik

Location: Nauru

 

“Everything starts with you” Mr Viliame Rabici, our lecturer who would remind us throughout the course. This is what we often overlook when problems arise or our company image or performance is in question. This sound advice and constant reminder helped to redirect our focus when looking for root causes, making decisions or designing strategic plans.

That’s why most of us joined the course, to equip ourselves with the necessary tools and skills that meet the demands of our positions or future posts.  We also needed the recognised proofs of our competencies for further prospects.

Because it was designed for business leadership and management, I felt obligated to supplement  my business knowledge with the smart skills and business tools offered through the course in order to carry out my leadership roles as a Board Director, and fulfill my strong obligation to build up community opportunities and services.

The learning has not stopped here that the workshop has come to an end, but the real hard work now begins through the applications of the tools in our respective business units. Our competencies will be assessed in our analytic abilities to identify problems, evaluate situations and design strategic plans that will address the proposed changes. It’s not been easy and the expectations are very high. We have also been forewarned that not all will pass and with that I think we have all been suitably challenged to warrant our positions.

I am grateful for the learning opportunity made possible by my district leader and sponsor, who I think also saw the need for self development as a tool for achieving greater things for the larger community. I eagerly look forward to the diploma course but have to pass this first hurdle to qualify for the next. Therefore, I would recommend this course for anyone in managerial positions to raise themselves to the next level because not only for the course content, but also to experience a little of the extensive expertise of Mr Rabici himself as he continuously increases his Johari free area. Also to the 24 other participants who made the learning even more rewarding by sharing with us their own experiences and expertise, a big “tuba kor” and better networking to look forward to. Tarowong,

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Eggo Soriano
Administrative Officer
Administration Department
Nauru Rehabilitation Corporation

I write to express my sincere appreciation of the Management Development Program. Although it is in its early stages of implementation on Nauru I found the workshop to be highly educational and empowering. I see that the overview of the program was developed with precision and accuracy. Prior to attending the workshop, I did sort of have an idea of some Management concepts and tools, but not to the extent of what was taught in Workshops. I am sure this was also the case for most of the participants. The articulation of the whole program was effective with the many living examples that were used as illustrations. The contents of the modules were quite easy to understand and most of all, the guidance provided in the use of the tools given during the workshop make it a remarkable program to participate in.

I must say that Nauru needs these sorts of programs to be conducted more frequently. There is alot of potential for greatness in Nauru, but majority of the (working class & grassroots) population lack that sense of accurate leadership and direction, which is what this program empowers Managers and support staff to do in their respective sectors. It may sound radical a comment, but I think with this kind of training and empowering of locals, it would guarantee a revolution in the 'work culture' on Nauru.

At this stage there is so much dependency on foreign expertise to provide nearly every form of advice and technical assistance in the continuous review and monitoring of developments on Nauru. It is high time for equipping the locals to take over and for the locals to be able to determine the level and rate of development on Nauru. I thank USP for affording Nauru the opportunity to be trained by the Master himself in this remarkable program.

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Dexter Brechtefeld
CEO
Eigigu Enterprise
Nauru

Vili, I personally thank you for these entire breakthroughs, I honestly won’t be able to see and address any of these problems if I wouldn’t have attended the course you delivered! I personally got impress with the outcome of the analysis reports, without the analysis report there won’t be any plans for Eigigu Enterprises today.

So having the opportunity in being part of your class has changed my life and even till these days, I am still not satisfied with what I have learn because I still need more training to become like you someday!

I honestly can tell that if that piece of your idea and strategy you imparted in the MDP can make a change, you still possess the rest of it and I want to learn them all one by one and as saying that, I won’t give up hope with my vision I will try my best with all I am to be successful.

Best Regards,

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