'Creating an Autonomous and Communicative Public Service Culture' Ministry of the Interior and Safety Introduces Theater-Based Leadership Training

[Asia Economy Reporter Lim Cheol-young] The Local Government Officials Development Institute under the Ministry of the Interior and Safety announced on the 19th that it has introduced the country’s first "Empathy-based Leadership Training through Theater" among domestic and international educational institutions to foster a "public service culture of autonomy and communication."

The "Theater-based Leadership Training" was developed to cultivate new leadership by enhancing intergenerational communication skills, emphasizing the need for innovation in public service culture amid the recent increase and accelerating influence of the MZ generation.

The "Theater-based Leadership Training" is conducted in three stages: viewing, discussion, and participation. The first stage involves "viewing" a play centered on real-life leadership practice cases to raise awareness of the importance of communication between generations. The second stage is a process of "discussion" through watching role-play theater of leaders to explore the right leadership model. The third stage concludes by providing trainees with the opportunity to directly write scripts and "participate" in acting to experience empathy-based leadership.

The newly introduced theater video corresponds to the first stage. Considering the COVID-19 situation, the play was filmed and produced for online viewing. The main content of the theater video depicts the "protagonist (Manager Han Gi-seong)" listening to the inner thoughts of the MZ generation through three virtual trips and directly putting himself in the shoes of the MZ generation to understand the environment they grew up in and their behavioral patterns.

Going forward, the Local Government Officials Development Institute plans to support the theater video to other educational institutions, central administrative agencies, and local governments to spread organizational culture innovation through leadership cultivation of senior public officials and intergenerational communication.

Minister Jeon Hae-cheol urged, "Through the dissemination of this theater video, I ask everyone from all generations to communicate together and strive to create a new public service culture," emphasizing, "The beginning of intergenerational communication is recognizing differences as differences, not mistakes, with a heart of empathy."

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