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After six months of joint work between the Mandel Center and the Employment Service's Southern District Head Office, the groundwork has been laid for a leadership program for Branch Directors of the district, scheduled to open next year.
During three-hour preparatory meetings, which included a lecture, discussion and workshop, representatives of the Mandel Center for Leadership in the Negev and members of the Employment Service laid the groundwork for a Professional Leadership Program for the Employment Service. Among the issues discussed were the question of viewpoint, the labor market, organizational change and justice in the public sphere.
The proposed program will seek to tackle the challenges facing the Employment Service in general, and the Southern District in particular, including a comprehensive organizational change, changing the service's underlying conception from passive to active, the integration of monitoring and control tools, and additional changes that require a renewed outlook on the role of Branch Director.
David Kalderon, the Employment Service's Southern District director, said that the program's objective was "to turn the branch directors from directors to leaders," that is, to transform them from "instruction followers" to people who initiate and lead processes and who assume full responsibility for everything that is associated with the field of employment in the community and region which they serve. The program will allow Branch Directors to look into the essence of their function and expand it, through theoretical and philosophical enrichment, a restudying of the area and the community and fostering the lifestyle of a leader. Furthermore, the Mandel Center for Leadership in the Negev believes that it is crucially important to network the program participants with fellows from the other programs held by the center (community-oriented and other), in order to raise awareness of the processes taking place in the community, and thus to eventually contribute to an improved quality of life there. |
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