Abu Dhabi, June 21 (IANS/WAM) The staff of the Abu Dhabi Tourism Authority (ADTA) have undergone a five-day leadership-development training programme in Singapore, an official said Monday.

Some 27 senior ADTA staff, including 11 women managers, completed the ‘Moving from Managing to Leading’ course which focused on key leadership and management issues and allowed the team to experience the successful Singaporean approach.

ADTA director general Mubarak Hamad Al Muhairi said: ‘This is part of a comprehensive programme to develop and upgrade the skills and knowledge of our UAE national management team. A lot of attention is directed to training our young UAE national managers and directors because they constitute 71 percent of ADTA’s management.’

–IANS/WAM

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