Record enrolment for EFC training program

The Employers' Federation of Ceylon has seen a record enrolment for its eight-week Supervisory Development Program over the past two years.

The program is conducted once a week over eight weeks, twice a year, in January and June.

Covering topics such as work scheduling, understanding accounts, leading and motivating teams, and managing discipline, the course covers all the hard and soft skills that a junior manager needs to effectively manage a workforce.

The course is one of the oldest management training programs in the country. It was launched in 2005 and has over the past nine years trained hundreds of junior managers from various national and multinational organisations based in Sri Lanka.

This year's course saw participants from a variety of industries including retail, manufacturing, hotel and leisure, banking, garments and FCMG.

One of the reasons why the course is popular is that it has always recognised the changing role of the supervisor in modern organisations.

The program strives to create highly interactive sessions using real life management scenarios wherever possible.

Course participant, Ashroff Yusoof from Amangalle Resort said, "The trainers are good. I have been on many training courses but I gained something different from this one. The EFC Supervisory Program provides practical case studies, role plays and exercises that are fascinating to work through."

Unlike other training institutions, nearly all of its trainers are also full-time professional employment relations specialists, who handle real staff management issues continuously, as part of their normal working day.

The working professionals bring not only the latest management theories to the classroom, but actual first-hand experience of how these strategies work in today's corporate world.