March 15, 2018

Alumni Spotlight: Solomon Woldeamanuel

Since the program ended, I have found ways to practice the leadership concepts learned during the program. Currently, I am preparing to conduct an assessment prior to delivering supervisory skills training to all staff of the ministry of health who are working in a supervisory capacity. In addition, I am actively participating in one of the flagship programs in the human resource development directorate; the health development army daily meeting. Through this meeting, I have negotiated with the team on methods to provide effective and constructive comments to them as well as to those providing health science supportive supervision.

Progress has also been made on the implementation of my policy memo. I have discussed with the human resource development directorate about the implementation of my policy memo and he suggested to make an assessment to identify and analyze whether the experts we work with have, in fact, been providing supportive supervision after taking the supervisory skills training. This will give us a better idea if our training is having the desired impact.

For my own continued development, I successfully completed a facilitation skills training course. Having considered my Masters Degree in public health in health informatics, I am in the process of shifting to the human resource information system case team within the same directorate.

The biggest lesson I have learnt since finishing the program is that it would have been better to have sufficient time to have a thorough discussion with the directorate on how to implement my policy memo in a timely fashion. Hence, I would suggest to the next IPPHL Fellows to make their utmost effort to seriously discuss their proposed policy memos with their supervisors or directors; not only about the development of the memo but also the implementation of the possible solutions.