07.11.2012.
Expert discussion "Caring and working with people"
Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Ljubisa Dikovic opened today in the House of Guards in Topcider, an expert discussion on "Caring and working with people - a prerequisite for effective military collectives."Expert discussion was attended by Assistant Minister for Human Resources Jovan Mijakovic, Director of the Defence Inspectorate Lt. Gen. Aleksandar Zivkovic, CHOD’s main staff, Commander of the operational level, commanders of units of the brigade and battalion, as well as representatives of the Ministry of Defence and the Serbian Armed Forces.
General Dikovic said that it was an important issue, because the structure of people who attend the hearing just talking about it.
Today there are commanders, psychologists, teachers, doctors, heads of departments-people whose day starts and ends by meeting a person, this person being an officer, non-commissioned officer, a civilian, a member of the Serbian Army with their strengths and weaknesses, desires, plans, dedicated system. These are people with honor and dignity, different perceptions of basic social and human values. Our strength is in this man, and our power is collective. Caring and working with people is the key sentence of success and failure, anywhere, anytime. The first thing is to show concern, then to work, because without each other, working with people is doomed to failure as the Chief of General Staff said.
Head of the GS Human Resources Department, Colonel Petar Boskovic presented to the participants of today's activity a plan for professional discussion and work, and that the aim of the discussion thoroughly analyzes the situation and the importance of caring and working with people in the Serbian army, and the place and role of leaders and professional bodies in the process.Expert discussion covers four areas - the experience of control, psychosocial status, physical and psychological burden of professional members of the Serbian Armed Forces, health of professional members of the Serbian Army, then the mental hygiene of working with people as well as care and working with people in training, motivating staff and building good interpersonal relations.
