Outward Bound Training for HNB Student Managers

Hatton National Bank in its efforts to cultivate the savings habit among school children initiated the school banking unit concept in schools way back in 1994 with the opening of the first unit at Royal College Colombo. Since then the bank has setup 166 School Banking Units across Sri Lanka where Student Managers who are groomed to take leadership in running a mini bank in his/her school get actively involved inculcating the savings habit among fellow students. The bank takes the student manger concept very seriously and trains more than 1,000 student mangers to carry out their duties at HNB school savings units. The bank recently undertook a series of special outward bound training programmes for its student mangers with the assistance of Outward Bound Trust Sri Lanka in collaboration with the Sri Lanka Business Development Centre. The programmes were conducted in Colombo, Negombo, Ratnapura, Galle, Tangalle, Bandarawela, Wariyapola, Trincomalee and Jaffna.

This outward bound programme for student managers was specially designed to unleash the hidden potential, develop self confidence, leadership qualities, team building, and effective communication and to promote a sense of community service and involvement in CSR activity. The programme was instrumental in developing a positive mindset while improving the planning capability and the need for proper empowerment among these student leaders. The training was conducted by a team of resource personnel trained locally and overseas on outward bound training while the training methodology was based on group activities.

Following the successful implementation of the programme, Student Managers participated stated that it was a great opportunity to develop leadership, cooperation, patience and humanity through team activity. The efforts by the HNB and its crew in preparing the participants to face success, victory and loss at a balanced pace were much appreciated by the participants.