Col.(Retd) Akmal Khan
Colonel Akmal is a well-versed & well reputed life-coach who possesses a rich profile with regards to human resource development with special emphasis on youth development. During military service, besides other operational appointments, he has recurrently been involved in selection of youth for Armed Forces of Pakistan in varying capacities including Command of ISSB Gujranwala. Colonel Akmal has a Master’s Degree of Business Administration with a majors in Disaster Management and has conceptualized a new dimension know as Emotional Risk Management. He has also been a sought after faculty member of many prestigious universities in Islamabad. Furthermore, he has been contributing articles in eminent journals and is a regular speaker on the subjects of emotional intelligence, youth development and disaster management. He has been awarded Sitara-i-Imtiaz (Military) in acknowledgement of his highly praiseworthy service and devotion to duty.
Ever since his retirement in 2014 he is supervising Rahnuma, an eminent youth development institution, whereby the prime goal is to optimize national youth’s potentials all over the country. The institute’s emphasizes on grooming and development for selection in various professions, Career Navigation and Emotional Management in Career Development, besides other areas of interest to youth.
Leadership training in the 21st century has taken a much different turn in many public and private sector organizations. Consequently, in today’s workplace, a high level of emotional intelligence has become an important factor for success, influencing productivity, efficiency and team collaboration. Rahnuma endeavors to ensure that its beneficiaries thrive socially and emotionally so as to actualize their hidden potentials, which ultimately optimize their individual and team professional matrix. Rahnuma helps organizations and people understand the importance of managing emotions and tools, skills for the same, providing customized models of emotional intelligence grooming varying from; on location awareness sessions to on Campus activities.
A society’s future lies in the hands of a teacher who imparts education, not mere literacy to the most receptive minds. This mammoth responsibility requires some critical arenas to be addressed and personality development is the cornerstone amongst them. Likewise the knowledge recipient i.e. the young mind of a student must be capable enough to absorb and apply the learnings with absolute vivid objectives which would assist him in choosing the right career path in accordance with his aptitude and natural inclination towards a certain scheme of study.
It may be pertinent to mention here that while there is a wide array of acknowledgment of the dire need to address the ever lingering and chronic issues of various aspects of professional shortfalls in school teachers’ fraternity and severe dearth of adequate youth counselling in educational institutions across the country, the corresponding corrective measures including conducting rigorous and thorough teachers’ training workshops and application of well calibrated psychological measures for guiding and counselling the students have yet to see the light of the day.
TOTAL (Training of Teachers as Leaders) is a program conceived for academic empowerment and meaningful youth building. The projectoffers training in the areas of communication, emotional intelligence, self-development & assessment, consulting & capacity development in order to enable the teachers to provide students with necessary personal, professional & intellectual tools, so as for them to become valuable assets to the society.
A teacher can enter the school premises after qualifying the technical competence test but a more complex and difficult to measure attribute on a recurrent scale is the personality factor. And this forms the premise of our training objectives. A teacher with a balanced personality delivers a well calibrated learning atmosphere and that is only possible when: