With the upcoming accreditation survey of Lebanese hospitals (2010-2011), there is an opportunity for hospitals to enhance competencies of existing HR managers, and strengthen the HR management component.
Country teams also suggested the need for supportive supervision and mentoring programmes to further enhance competencies and skills.
"Using implantables to enhance competency is down the road," he said.
Also, managers can identify opportunities for staff to cross train within a work area or across work areas to enhance competency development.
The directors of child CCs need to have the essential training and experience in business management to enhance their competencies for the management of centres, and the micro and macro influences should be kept in mind for the management and operations of such institutions.
They demanded that the University acknowledge Wilson's legacy of racism and segregationist policies, remove his name from the Woodrow Wilson School and residential college, and enhance cultural competency training for faculty, among other demands.
Secondly, the strong association between personal accomplishment and psychological morbidity proves the need for employers to enhance staff competencies through professional development; this inevitably leads to improved self-esteem.
For example, publicly available online tools such as the Community Guide [ 12], Cancer P.L.A.N.E.T. [ 13], Research to Reality [ 14], and the Community Toolbox [ 15] provide toolkits and resources to enhance these competencies.
Our own previous research has shown that there are effective strategies for enhancing motivational competencies that have been applied to various psychiatric disorders such as depression and anxiety [ 37].
Moreover, this study, like similar ones (e.g., Conte, 2005; McNamara, 2005; Petrides & Furnham, 2000; Sivanathan & Fekken, 2000), highlights the trainability of EI and supports practically useful techniques for enhancing EI competency.
As part of the SU Rural Medical Educational Partnership Initiative (SURMEPI), we, at the Centre for Evidence-based Health Care at SU in South Africa (http://www.cebhc.co.za), have been working on enhancing EBHC competencies of medical graduates since 2011.
