Seminar underscores sanctity of human values

Rawalpindi : Speakers at the four-day training workshop on ‘The Pathways to Leadership’ stressed the need of respecting the feelings of others, as every person has his own thoughts, views and have the right of expression.

The workshop organised by the Faculty of Social Sciences in collaboration with Renaissance Foundation for Social Innovation, Islamabad concluded at Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi (PMAS-AAUR) on Thursday.

They were of the view that leadership is principle driven instead of personality driven and said,” leadership is all about the principles, values and thought. The purpose of the workshop was to explore the very emotions affecting the social and religious harmony and nurture the abilities to understand others and develop tolerance to cope with leadership crises.

PMAS-AAUR Vice Chancellor Prof Dr. Sarwat N. Mirza was the chief guest at the concluding session while Pakistan’s renowned scholar Dr. Khalid Zaheer, Founding Member School of Leadership Kamran Rizvi, PMAS-AAUR Dean Faculty of Social Sciences Dr. Abdul Saboor, were the guest speakers at the training workshop which was attended by deans, directors and students of social sciences. The last session was very interactive based on the principles of leadership in context of ownership, connection, sympathy and visionary approaches. Regardless of differences, they focused on the diversified approaches and emphasized to adopt the principles of Commonalities.

They also talked on the soft elements of leadership and concluded that principle centre leadership is the need of the day rather than person centred leadership. Prof Dr. Sarwat N. Mirza, Vice Chancellor of the University, while sharing his own experiences in life he argued that interactive teaching is important for creating success stories in academic life. He argued that there is much potential among our youth which should be capitalized in the right direction. PMAS-AAUR vice chancellor hoped that the training session will be helpful to respect the feelings of others by accepting the differences to create the social and religious harmony. He also promised to continue this kind of trainings in other faculties of the university.