MIBIL: Leadership course for future Lebanese NCOs

(To Greater Defense)
20/05/19

Friday 17 May at the headquarters of Officers' School of the Lebanese Army in Baalbek (Lebanon) the closing ceremony of the 3rd Course on Leadership organized by the Bilateral Military Mission in Lebanon (MIBIL) was held.

In the presence of the commander of the Officers' School, General Maroun Mhanna, the commander of the Mission, Colonel Stefano Lagorio presented the diplomas to the LAF personnel who successfully completed the course.

The course, held in the period from 13 to 17 May 2019, was excellently conducted by a Mobile Training Team (MTT), set up for the needs of the Defense Staff, composed of 5 training officers and 5 psychological officers from various Departments of the Italian Army. Specifically, during the week of the course, the cadets were divided into groups of 16 units, to allow them to practice activities functional to the identification and learning of the most effective organizational behaviors for the specific Lebanese military context, in terms of Leadership, effective communication, stress management and group dynamics.

The course was conducted according to an innovative training methodology for adults that alternates traditional classroom moments with multiple experiential activities.

In particular, the experiential training, conceived, developed and applied for many years by SME DIPE OSP, represents a tool for participants who, facing unforeseen tasks and situations, live learning experiences, emotionally involving, and act. Behaviors that later become the object of careful reflection (use of experience and transfer to the working context).

The results of the feedback received confirm that, as for the previous sessions held in 2018, the activity undertaken recorded a high degree of satisfaction. Furthermore, the active involvement of all students and the availability guaranteed by the entire command line of the NCO School have consolidated the growing collaboration between the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) and the Italian Armed Forces.

MIBIL, operating in Lebanon since 2015, organizes, conducts and coordinates training and training activities in favor of the Lebanese Armed Forces, framing itself in the broader international context that aims to support the institutions of the Middle Eastern nation in order to increase their overall capabilities.