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With the support of US Embassy
Two-day Workshop on Leadership Skills Development started today
Today (22/08/2019), a two-day workshop on “Leadership Skills Development” began on Jahorina Montain. The worshop is attended by arond 30 policewomen from law enforcement agencies in B&H.The Workshop is being implemented within the project “Strengthening Capacities of Policewomen – Potential Leaders”, which is supported by United States Embassy. This is the second workshop of this type, while the third workshop on the same subject will be held in mid-September this year.
The main goal of this Workshop is raising awareness of gender equality, development of leadership skills and empowering policewomen, which will help them in further professional development and career progress.
This Workshop will process the main areas related to gender issues with the purpose to raise awareness of gender equality and importance of equal representation of men and women on all positions and levels in the security sector. Also, specific topics related to leadership will be covered, which will include stiles of management, characteristics of leaders, business communication and the role of woman in public life in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as basic elements of public appereance and communication skills.
The first workshop of this type, which was implemented in July this year, was assessed as useful, and the entrance and final tests showed that the knowledge of the trainees was increased from 2.8 to 4.3, which without a dilemma indicates a significant improvement of knowledge in areas of leadership
Leaders in different fields of work and esteemed experts in this area Amna Popovac, Marina Bakic and Sanela Dujkovic were among the educators in this Workshop.
"Policewomen's Network" Association is planning to realize this type of workshops for around 100 policewomen from police agencies in Bosnia and Herzegovina as a part of above mentioned project with the aim of strengthening the capacity of police agencies and creating the preconditions for the promotion of more policewomen.
