OSCE Presence in Albania organizes management training for senior staff of country’s public broadcasting service

The OSCE Presence in Albania organized an online training course from 4 to 10 November 2020 for ten managers of the country’s public broadcasting service, RTSH, with the aim of enhancing skills in running newsrooms.

The training was delivered by Remy Siegrist, an expert on human resources and management from the European Broadcasting Union, who highlighted the importance of performance evaluation, competency management, delegation, putting human capital at the centre of organizational performance, and job satisfaction.

Discussions focused on how to improve interactions between managers and staff, especially in challenging times, such as the current pandemic.

Melsi Qirici, Editor-in-Chief of RTSH 1 TV Channel, said: “From a human perspective, I found the training very compelling. I would love to follow up the trainings with practical ideas and examples, including tricks about finding solutions in crisis situations, as how to implement innovative, efficient management and human resources ideas and techniques in countries with low-budget public broadcasters.”

This course is part of the training programme within the EU-funded Media in Focus project, which has been implemented by the OSCE Presence in Albania since January 2019. Through this project, the Presence aims at strengthening the Albanian public broadcaster through capacity-building for journalists and the production of new flagship programmes. It also aims at improving and modernizing the curricula of the Albanian Public School of Journalism. Future training courses envisaged in the project will focus on editorial judgement and principles of public service media, as well as using social media and social networks for news-gathering purposes.