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While it may not be VUCA in its strictest sense, Our sharing sessions, in the form of Leadership
the unprecedented change of government in
2018 was uncharted territory for Malaysians.
This is even so for our public service, who have
had to adjust accordingly, and at some point, the
institution had to play a more enhanced advisory
role to the executive in an unfamiliar role. The
situation, in hindsight, could be best described as
the change curve. Changes often spark a myriad
of emotions and it affects how trust is built, broken
and managed. This is coupled with evaluating
each other’s competence over the matter and at
the end of the equation is often questioning the
status of one’s credibility and integrity. The key that
unlocks this sense of ambiguity and complexity
is simply constant, meaningful and effective
communication.
RSOG itself was faced with these challenges
in 2019. Alhamdulillah, we persevered and as
things stand, we hope to celebrate our 10th year
anniversary in July 2020, Insya Allah. We remain
ever more committed in our pursuit of advancing
Malaysia’s senior public sector leaders, across all
service sectors. Our programmes are always with
the intention to provide an enhanced learning
experience for our participants, sharing the
latest findings and comparing best practices.
We believe that the past year has allowed our
programmes to deepen its meaning and purpose
as we consider the nuances of our institutions,
the roles each sector plays in development and
nation-building, and the core values that hold our
national character. 2020 is a milestone and will be
a commemorative year for Malaysia in many ways.
We would like to take this opportunity to reflect
and share what we have contributed in this 2019
Annual Report.
Our executive education programmes, which
includes our signature Senior Leadership
Programme and Open Programmes, saw
positive feedback from participants, providing
the encouragement for its continuation. We also
reintroduced our Emerging Leaders Programme,
designed and delivered for middle-managers,
to best maximise our international partners’ stint
in Malaysia and to create more opportunities
for learning and development at all levels in the
public sector. Following our efforts to broaden
our business activities, we are proud to share that
our customised programmes have increased its
breadth and depth. Our clients include agencies,
departments, and state governments. We saw
how these organisations are looking for ways to
enhance their strategic planning, their service
delivery and operations, and how to best adapt
to changes and challenges that the current
environment presents.
in Action (a leadership-focused seminar), Policy
Discourse Series (policy-related dialogue sessions)
and Food for Thought (a small group discussion
on topics related to leadership and public policy),
allowed RSOG to open its doors to the broader
public who are interested in exploring leadership
lessons by prominent speakers and intricacies
of policymaking at all levels of government.
Consistently, the need for effective and meaningful
communication seem to raise in these sharing
sessions, along with the need to have a mutual
understanding of each other’s situation and
background.
In 2019, a total of 43 programmes were successfully
implemented. 1,929 public and private sector
leaders were the direct beneficiaries of these
programmes and our fervent hope is that these
leaders would take the learning forward, sharing
it further within their respective organisations to
ensure that more would benefit from these learning
experiences. We believe that sharing these learning
knowledge is a step towards recreating the culture
of mentoring and instilling the values of coaching.
RSOG would not be where we are without
our stakeholders. Therefore, we conducted a
stakeholder engagement workshop in November
2019, to get feedback from our stakeholders in this
pursuit of public sector leadership development.
The session certainly gave us plenty to ponder on
as we saw what we did right and what areas we
could further explore into. We certainly welcome
more feedback that you have and how we can do
more. We strongly emphasise the importance of
teamwork and I am proud to have a dedicated
team who are positive in embracing the changes
and challenges that this VUCA environment offers.
I remain humbled by the guidance of our Trustees
and stakeholders, who keeps urging RSOG to
continuously improve. This keeps us motivated
in our aspiration to build future-ready leaders for
the nation. Thank you for all your support and
contribution, not only for 2019 but also for the past
years since our inception. We look to the year ahead
to serve you with the highest form of Integrity,
the Courage to do more with less, creating more
Innovation in our delivery, and instituting positive
Change in all that we do.
Thank you
AZMAN HISHAM CHE DOI
Chief Executive Officer
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