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Under the auspices of the JSCoT Project, the Career Guidance & Industrial Liaisons (CG & IL) Director, Mr. L M G Gurusinghe and the Research & Development Director, Mr. K K A Karunathilaka of the Department of Technical Education and Training (DTET) requested the National Productivity Secretariat (NPS) of the Ministry of Employment & Labor to conduct a two-day Training of Trainer (TOT) program on Basic Productivity, Presentation Skills, 5S Methodology and Kaizen for the Career Guidance Officers (CGOs) of all the Technical Colleges and a few staff of the Department on 13 and 14 September 2009 at the DTET Auditorium in Colombo.
The main objective of the TOT was to build capacity of the CG Officers and staff of DTET by increasing their awareness and knowledge on productivity improvement techniques, tools and practices such as 5S and Kaizen so that they could increase their efficiency.
All the sessions of the program was conducted by Mr. Upali Marasinghe, Director of NPS. About sixty participants comprising of CGOs attached to the TCs, Colleges of Technology (CoTs) and a few staff members of DTET attended the program.
The feedback from the participants for this program is excellent and almost everyone felt excited and ‘positively charged’ and vowed to bring about a change in the way they work. Many requested the JSCoT Project and the CG & IL Division to continue to organize workshops of this nature.  
Mr. N R R K Wijenayake, Director of the Sri Lanka College of Technology (SLCoT) and Project Manager of the JSCoT Project, in his vote of thanks said that he would like to take the lessons of this Program further by requesting the CG & IL Director of DTET to introduce productivity practices such as 5S and Kaizen among the Principals, students and staff of the TCs and CoTs.

About the National Productivity Secretariat (NPS):

The National Productivity Secretariat was formed in 1994 and in 2001 was transferred to the Ministry of Employment & Labor as per the recommendations of the National Productivity Policy of Sri Lanka. Its mission is “to enable Sri Lanka to face international competitiveness through the promotion of productivity and contribute to the national development of the country by enhancing standard of living of Sri Lankans”.

(Text: Subhani Nanayakkara - JSCoT Consultant (Career Guidance))
(Photo: Hiroshi SAITO-Acting Chief Advisor)

Photo1(left):Mr.Upali Conducting the workshop
Photo2(right):Information Material and Work Book of 5S and Productivity