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DCS unveils plans for next leadership camp.


Summary: The next desert camp in Abu Dhabi's prestigious National Programme for Leadership Development will take place at a remote location near Al Ain This article is about the city in the United Arab Emirates. For the city in Lebanon, see El Ain.

Al Ain (Arabic: العين
 in October and really challenge its participants, the Department of Civil Service has revealed.

DCS (1) See also DSC.

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 unveils plans for next leadership camp

The next desert camp in Abu Dhabi's prestigious National Programme for Leadership Development will take place at a remote location near Al Ain in October and really challenge its participants, the Department of Civil Service has revealed.

Briefing Human Resources The fancy word for "people." The human resources department within an organization, years ago known as the "personnel department," manages the administrative aspects of the employees. , Strategy and IT managers from Government Departments at a recent workshop, DCS unveiled its plans for Phase II of the National Programme, in which a large number of high achievers from the public sector are expected to take part.

The camp is the centrepiece of the Programme, which was established last year to identify and train the future leadership of the Emirate e·mir·ate  
n.
1. The office of an emir.

2. The nation or territory ruled by an emir.

Noun 1. emirate - the domain controlled by an emir
 and to put in place a career and succession planning Management Succession Planning
In organizational development, succession planning is the process of identifying and preparing suitable employees through mentoring, training and job rotation, to replace key players — such as the chief executive officer (CEO) —
 process.

Groups of 50 are split into teams of 10 and put through a whole range of physical, pyschological and individual tests to determine their suitability, against 10 competency criteria devised by the DCS.

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, said: "It's going to be a serious programme that really tests the participants, and with an emphasis on how they react and behave, rather than how successfully they have performed."

The workshop was the latest in the DCS outreach programme to update senior public sector officials on issues and developments covering Change Management, Organizational Development, Learning and Development, Competency Framework and Employee Performance Reviews.

Marcy Fletchall, said:

"These workshops are crucial to ensuring that DCS communicates effectively with Government Departments during a period of intense change and far-reaching changes in HR policies and procedures Policies and Procedures are a set of documents that describe an organization's policies for operation and the procedures necessary to fulfill the policies. They are often initiated because of some external requirement, such as environmental compliance or other governmental .

"A key objective of our outreach programme is to equip the Government's HR Managers and senior HR professionals with the resources to improve the performance of their own HR functions," she added.

Abu Dhabi Government's ambitious plans to introduce a sophisticated technology system to which all 10,000 public sector employees have access are well advanced, the workshop also heard.

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