By KOLOPU WAIMA
AT THE backdrop of a long struggle for more women to occupy some of the top positions in the Government departments, one woman has this to say.
Margaret Sibona, a senior public servant with the Department of Environment and
Conservation, says it is not difficult for women to occupy such positions
because they are already managers in their own homes.
Ms Sibona said that women are the managers in the house and they have wider knowledge about needs and wants at the family level as well as in the running of their organisations.
She urged her fellow female staff of DEC to think big and aim high in their respective roles in order to reach their goals, including taking up the top positions in the department and agencies where they are working.
Ms Sibona graduated yesterday at the Papua New Guinea Institute of Public Administration at Waigani campus, in the first batch of the National Certificate one in Government among 20 others.
She said that more women should be at top management levels occupying decision-making positions in the country.
Ms Sibona said that women are the managers in the house and they have wider knowledge about needs and wants at the family level as well as in the running of their organisations.
She urged her fellow female staff of DEC to think big and aim high in their respective roles in order to reach their goals, including taking up the top positions in the department and agencies where they are working.
Ms Sibona graduated yesterday at the Papua New Guinea Institute of Public Administration at Waigani campus, in the first batch of the National Certificate one in Government among 20 others.
She said that more women should be at top management levels occupying decision-making positions in the country.
She said it was not difficult for one to reach or make it to the top,
encouraging women to give it try, including taking up training such as these
short and long courses offered at PNGIPA.
“I encourage those women in the industry and those still at schools, either at national high, college or university level, to think positive and aim high,” she said. She added that the National Certificate 3 in government course was a very important course that dealt mainly with communication in the work place.
She said that most of the time the senior officers expected their subordinates to go and see them as they themselves did not visit the junior staff members or subordinates to get to know what they need or what they needed to do.
Ms Sibona, as a senior officer who has experienced such situations in the workplace, said there was lack of communication between workers in work stations. And what they had learnt from the course would help them a lot in managing such situations. She said that people seemed to work on their own in offices but at the end of the day everyone benefitted. Ms Sibona said that after attending the course she could see that she is now able to solve problems, work in a team and had learned that there were many ways in which to communicate with the staff from the top management to the bottom level and could easily manage them.
She said that if she could do it, then there was no barrier to stop all other women colleagues in the country from taking up the challenges and be a leader in the future.
“I encourage those women in the industry and those still at schools, either at national high, college or university level, to think positive and aim high,” she said. She added that the National Certificate 3 in government course was a very important course that dealt mainly with communication in the work place.
She said that most of the time the senior officers expected their subordinates to go and see them as they themselves did not visit the junior staff members or subordinates to get to know what they need or what they needed to do.
Ms Sibona, as a senior officer who has experienced such situations in the workplace, said there was lack of communication between workers in work stations. And what they had learnt from the course would help them a lot in managing such situations. She said that people seemed to work on their own in offices but at the end of the day everyone benefitted. Ms Sibona said that after attending the course she could see that she is now able to solve problems, work in a team and had learned that there were many ways in which to communicate with the staff from the top management to the bottom level and could easily manage them.
She said that if she could do it, then there was no barrier to stop all other women colleagues in the country from taking up the challenges and be a leader in the future.
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