25 March

Vol. XXVII No. 15

NAMRIA participates in 2nd CSC leadership training

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Dr. Chee during his lecture

NAMRIA participants

2015

NAMRIA leaders were among the government man-agers holding division chief positions and above who attended the Civil Service Commission (CSC)’s one-

day seminar “Mentoring and Coaching for Organization-al Excellence.” It was held at the SEAMEO-Innotech Con-ference Function Room in Quezon City on 18 March 2015. The participants from NAMRIA were: Engr. Tita P. Cruz, Officer In Charge (OIC), Nautical Charting Division-Hydrog-raphy Branch; Engr. Ronaldo C. Gatchalian, Chief, Geod-esy Division-Mapping and Geodesy Branch (MGB); Engr.Virgilio N. Panga, Engineering Services Division-Support Ser-vices Branch; Maria Romina D. Pe Benito, Chief, Geospatial Information Services Division-Geospatial Information Sys-tem Management Branch; Celedonio J. Pili, OIC, Reprogra-phy and Printing Division-MGB; and Violeta S. Quiliza, Geo-spatial Integration Division-Resource Data Analysis Branch.

CSC Commissioner Robert S. Martinez gave the welcome remarks; CSC Commissioner Nieves L. Osorio formally intro-duced Dr. Chee; CSC Executive Director IV, Dr. Arthur Luis P. Florentin gave the course integration; and Institute of Training and Development (ITD) Consulting Group Inc. Country Head Ms. Serely Geraldine D. Alcaraz served as moderator/emcee.

The morning session featured as topic the seminar theme and the speaker was international leadership trainer Dr. Pe-ter Chee. Dr. Chee is President and Chief Executive Officer of ITD World, and a leading certified trainer for Dr. John C. Maxwell and Zig Ziglar programs. Some key points from his lecture are the following: coaching involves drawing from the coachee while mentoring involves sharing with the mentee; different approaches in a conversation between coaches/men-tors and their coachees/mentees are mentoring for the need to advise, bossing for the need to instruct, corrective action for the need to correct, delegating for the need to empower, and coaching to unleash the potential of the person; when we coach, we actually should touch the hearts of our coachees; and we should believe in the people’s potential for greatness.

The afternoon session featured respective experiences on mentoring and coaching of the Department of Education (DepEd), the Landbank of the Philippines (LBP), the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), and Bostik Philippines Inc. Their respective resource persons were the following: Ms. Maria Lourdes D. Pantoja, Chief, National Educators Academy of the Philippines, DepEd; Mr. Conrado B. Roxas, First Vice President, Banking Operations Group, LBP; Ms. Elvira E. Ditching-Lori-co, Managing Director, Human Resource (HR) Sub-sector, BSP; and Ms. Marilou V. Mateo, Director, HR/Communications and Customer Service, Bostik Philippines Inc. Mr. Manuel G. Tan, President, Human Capital Development Asia-Pacific was the resource person on the topic “Coaching to Transform.”

Sample key excerpts from Executive Director Florentin’s course integration are as follows: the Performance Monitoring and Coaching phase of the Results-based Performance Management System (RPMS) of DepEd is the heart of their RPMS because it is where they continually improve performance; the way mentoring and coaching are being implemented will also continually improve as shown in the different batches of programs in Landbank where they used mentoring as a means to transfer technology and de-velop competencies; and from Mr. Tan’s lecture, through coach-ing to transform leadership behavior, we can develop emotional quotient (EQ) but as we develop EQ, we develop more coaches.

Sample memorable learnings from the speakers themselves are as follows: from Commissioner Martinez, learning from other people’s mistakes is the essence of coaching and men-toring; from Managing Director Lorico, understand first before judging or labeling the person; from Director Mateo, coaches are taught to ask to find out the sentiments of their coachees and leaders of the future ask; and from Executive Director Flo-rentin, if nobody is perfect then we need to continually learn and improve, and coaching and mentoring are very, very ef-fective competency development approaches both for the leadership and technical competencies, and what is important is that even the leader coaches learn from their coachees so it becomes a continual leadership development for everybody.

The seminar was the second of the leadership se-ries offered by the CSC through its Civil Service Insti-tute. It aimed to address the rising need for mentor-ing and coaching skills among organizational leaders.

Open forum during the afternoon session

(The photographs were taken by Engineer Panga.)