DUBAI: Thirty-five men and women of the Philippine Consulate General (PCG) and the Philippine Overseas Labor Office in Dubai on Friday
received their certificates of recognition for their completion of a landmark four-month/five session capability building measures program.
Consul General Paul Raymund Cortes was quoted as saying by Gulf Today that the program would definitely continue as a public-private partnership with the educational institution.
The thrust of the program, held at the Canadian University Dubai (CUD), is to equip as well as up-scale the counseling know-how of the foreign service and support personnel complete with self-awareness and team building workshops, the report said.
Initial talks about the program were held early this year between Consul Ferdinand Flores and representatives from the United International Private School, Fil-Invest International, Sidewalk Pizza, The Medical City-Dubai and the CUD. The idea was later on brought up with Cortes.
“Not everyone is given this four-month program. We are not perfect. We do not know everything. It takes humility that even if the government is seen as the final answer to all the concerns and issues of our countrymen, we are here as the last ray of hope for them,” he reportedly said.
Cortes hailed CUD president Prof./Dr. Karim Chelli and its School of Business Administration-Human Resource Management Program chairman/associate professor Dr. Rommel Pilapil Sergio.
Sergio, on of the Top 50 Global Educators in Business Awards 2016 recipients conferred recently by the Oxford Journal (UK), was the lead lecturer.
Cortes reportedly admitted the program has to be sustained because not all foreign service and support personnel are armed with psycho-social expertise.
The real essence of government officials and men becoming public servants is achieved and lived if they were capable of listening and giving appropriate counseling services, he was quoted as saying by Gulf Today.
Cortes reportedly said the PCG-Dubai has become the largest Philippine diplomatic mission in the world in terms of clientele population with 455,000 Filipinos in the Dubai and the Northern Emirates needing astute guidance on all their concerns.
