THE Tanzania Public Service College (TPSC) has conducted a special training to impart the executive leaders of the Institute of Rural Development Planning (IRDP) with professional leadership skills.

Held for three consecutive days, the timely training climaxed over the weekend focused to advance the leadership skills among the executive officials at the state- owned institute.

Speaking to this publication at the climax of the training, the IRDP Rector, Prof Hozen Mayaya said the received training was key to help propelling needed professionalism among the varsity's leaders.

"During the training we got opportunity to learn a number of key areas targeting to improve our daily performance, especially on leadership management as well as our engagement and working relations with other institutions," he explained.

Going into specific details, he unveiled some among the key topics emerged during the training session.

"The topics were integrity and leadership,  discipline, communication  at work places, as well as protocol and civilisation," he said.

 Prof Mayaya added that the other areas was emotional intelligence, the vital skill which according to him need to be embraced by leaders and staff of any institution.

" This training was facilitated by the high- profile leaders from TPSC and from different ministries and public institutions in the country," 

"For instance, the Chief Executive Office at the Chief Court Administrator of the Judiciary of Tanzania, Prof. Elisante Ole Gabriel was there to train us on emotional intelligence," he informed.

The professor expressed high optimism that the training will give the leaders of the Dodoma - based collect a fresh impetus to handle their daily roles more professional.

"With the training we're also going to expand and cement of engagement and working ties with other colleges within and outside the country, but also with the diverse institutions that we're working with in our daily executions," he said.

The Institute of Rural Development Planning (IRDP) is a corporate body established by the Parliamentary Act No. 8 of 1980.

This Act provides a legal framework for the Institute to be established as an important national centre for provision of training, research and consultancy services in the field of rural development planning and management with main objective of alleviating qualitative and quantitative shortage of skilled manpower within the framework of sustainable capacity building directed towards reducing poverty and attaining sustainable development.

Since its establishment, IRDP has been shaping destinies in planning and research methodologies focusing on the future prosperity of its students.