Leadership training in Mozambique

Today we started the three days of leadership training for six college general managers. This is the fourth training session we do with them. Last year in August we worked on the principles of "project management" followed by the principles of "effective internal and external communication" in February 2017. In May we had a workshop on entrepreneurial leadership. This week we focus on leadership in the age of artificial intelligence. That looks like a stretch for an economy such as Mozambique, but the AI tsunami will sooner or later also hit here and they need to start thinking on how to train future technicians and technologists for the jobs that will appear in that new world economy full of things like "bitcoins". Maintaining systems will still be required even when these systems will be more and more managed by AI together with human operators. In the photo above our local trainer Fernando reflects with them on the coaching work he has done with them locally during the past six months. We also had somebody from the Ministry give them an update.

After the morning session we took the ferry across the bay to stay two nights in a local "retreat" where we can have them fully focused. Quinn and I checked this place out in February (see one of the blog posts in that month). The ferry boat was quite full....

...but the destination was worth the relative discomfort of the short ferry ride. In the photo above you see the sky-line of the city of Maputo. The retreat hotel here has a little pier with a bar which we use for the evening sessions (tonight we did the first of the two evening sessions). The meeting table was nicely set up for us in the cabin on the pier.

The trainees have rooms in the main buildings. The Canadian team toughens it out in the cabins at the beach side (to the right on the photo above). The view from the city and the bridge under construction from my cabin today....

...and the communication and workshop preparation continues in our "office of the day".

After the dinner and the evening workshop, we have a night cap with the owners of the retreat hotel who came from Belgium 20 years ago on a vacation in Mozambique and are still here....

More about the next two days later this week. Cheers! Ate logo!