JOINT WORKSHOP ORGANIZED BY THE WANO MC AND ANPP

07.12.2022

JOINT WORKSHOP ORGANIZED BY THE WANO MC AND ANPP

On November 22-24, 2022 a workshop entitled “Managers in the Field”, jointly organized by the World Association of Nuclear Operators (WANO) Moscow Centre in cooperation with the Armenian NPP, was held at the ANPP. More than 30 managers and specialists from the Armenian NPP, Smolensk NPP and Bushehr NPP took part in the workshop.

During the welcoming speech Hunan Hunanyan, ANPP Deputy Chief Engineer on Personnel, stressed out the importance and relevance of the topic of leadership development for the nuclear industry, as well as the need to use such a tool as Coaching to develop leadership abilities among staff. He highlighted the particular importance of implementation of an effective «Managers in the Field» program, which allows the plant leaders to identify possibilities of improving performance and to use these possibilities on a systematic basis.

The participants highly appreciated the conducted workshop, pointed out the relevance of the topic and high potential of such a tool like Coaching. The practical work, performed at functional mock-ups in the ANPP departments on the second day of the workshop, allowed the participants to apply the obtained knowledge practically and to work through the observation and coaching methods.

In accordance with the “Train the Trainers” concept the training materials of the workshop were provided to the ANPP management and specialists.