Digital transformation training for unit leaders

Minister Nguyen Manh Hung said that leaders need to know how to combine Eastern and Western thinking, two different but complementary approaches.

At the training course, Minister Nguyen Manh Hung shared viewpoints, core values, strategic thinking, and the position and role of a leader in a unit or organization in the digital transformation era.

According to the Minister, a leader is a pioneer, must set an example, must be the first to face challenges, must have a path-oriented mindset, must see the destination.

However, the journey is still more important than the destination, because on that journey, leaders experience and realize new values, helping them make the right strategies and decisions.

As a leader, you need to be able to tolerate people and change.

The Minister also mentioned the differences between Eastern and Western philosophies as well as the importance of understanding and applying these philosophies in leadership. Accordingly, to be a leader, one must be able to "tolerate" people. To be a leader in the digital transformation era, one must be able to "tolerate" change. To do so, one must be able to "tolerate" both Eastern and Western ways of thinking.

According to the Minister, "tolerance" here means understanding. "Tolerance of others" means understanding others, that they are different from you, may be better than you, have things you don't have. To "tolerance of change" you must understand change, understand the trends of the times.

Leaders need to combine Eastern and Western thinking, two different but complementary approaches: the West analyzes the details, while the East focuses on the whole. Combining the two will help the organization have both a detailed view and a big picture view.

Overview of the Digital Transformation Training Course for Heads of Units under the Ministry of Information and Communications

Combining Eastern and Western philosophies

Leaders must combine two ways of thinking to create the most effective leadership method. For example, Eastern philosophy relies on intuition while Western philosophy relies on logical reasoning. In a period of great change, a period of innovation, intuition is better. Therefore, in an organization, intuitive people are encouraged to come up with creative ideas. Logical people filter creative ideas to find the best ones. Stable, routine tasks are assigned to logical people. New, unprecedented tasks are assigned to intuitive people.

Regarding the cultural differences between East and West, the Minister emphasized that Asians value "harmony", harmony with each other and harmony with the universe. However, a life without harmony alone cannot develop. From that perspective, the leadership of an organization should have different leaders to have many different perspectives and necessary criticism. Only when the leadership has such diversity can the organization be sustainable and develop.

The Minister emphasized the role of theory in promoting the development of an organization because without a guiding theory, it cannot go far and cannot lead many people. Therefore, developing a country or an industry must have a theory as a fulcrum to go a long way. The Ministry is assigning the National Digital Transformation Agency to develop a theory on digital transformation, using it as a flag and a guide to make major decisions . Then, pilot it successfully and then proceed to popularization. The theory must be based on the trend of the times, human knowledge, combined with Vietnamese practice and Vietnamese culture.

Minister Nguyen Manh Hung, Deputy Ministers of the Ministry of Information and Communications took souvenir photos with leaders of units under the Ministry of Information and Communications.

Theory plays an important role but "practice" is also very necessary, both theory and practice must be combined to be effective. Western philosophy considers experimentation important, thus developing technology. This is the strength of the West that we must learn. Leaders must create conditions for employees in the organization to experiment many times to create new things, to create breakthroughs.

Especially in the digital age, practice and experimentation play an even more important role, because "doing" is the best way to learn, "doing" makes you enlightened.

Finally, the Minister concluded that being a leader in the digital transformation era requires having a destination, a guiding star, handling daily situations well and going fast. Just like driving a car, if one of the three factors above fails, everything fails.

The Minister directed the Department of Personnel Organization to coordinate with VTC to organize a training program by topic every quarter, providing knowledge and testing for passing or failing. The organization in the MOOCs format aims to create a learning habit for all civil servants of the Ministry./.

Source: https://mic.gov.vn/boi-duong-ve-chuyen-doi-so-cho-lanh-dao-cap-truong-cac-don-vi-197240730180418313.htm