The Association of Accounting Technicians of Sri Lanka (AAT Sri Lanka) recently hosted a seminar on Lessons from Military Leadership for the public and AAT members. The main objective of the seminar to outline the key attitudes and behavioral aspects of a solider and how we should get it related to our day today activities.

The keynote delivered by Dr Ajith Colonne, Management Consultant and Lecturer, Former Deputy Director and Advisor on Intelligence Analysis  State Intelligence Service on Military leadership. He mainly discussed the training, specialized skills, team spirit, morale and the attitudes of military people with few experiences. Furthermore, he described that these qualities could improve on the civilians to gain more results from their day today activities and the benefits of following these qualities of a business environment.

After that, the panel discussion has started and it was moderated by Mr Indraka Liyanage, Chairman of AAT Seminar Committee and Member of AAT Governing Council. The panelists were Vice Admiral Piyal De Silva, Commander of the Navy, Major General Ruwan Wanigasooriya, General Officer Commanding in Jaffna and Mr Ajith Rohana, Deputy Inspector General - Motor Traffic.

The adaptation of the practice in military to the civil leadership was compared during the panel discussion. The core elements that they were described are about efficiency, integrity, punctuality, practicing, training and use them in an ethical way. They shared their experiences of their departments and explained that how it got successful. Mr Indraka, as the chairman of the session was handled the panel discussion smoothly by taking the core values and it was truly delivered to the participants to meet their expectations. This seminar was organized by the Seminar committee of AAT Sri Lanka at AAT center.