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THE INSTITUTE OF CHARTERED
PROFESSIONAL MANAGERS OF SRI LANKA
JANUARY 2021

FROM THE FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT

The COVID – 19 Pandemic is a major challenge for all Managers in both the
public and private sector including Health, Business, Universities, Schools, many
others and a testing time for Managers at all levels to put their best foot forward
to maintain normalcy in their organisations. Technology has played a major role
in these difficult times and enabled many activities to be conducted virtually
enabling near normalcy to be restored.
With the vaccine now developed and certified by WHO we have a ray of hope to
overcome the COVID – 19 Pandemic and move ahead. This would also require
the support of the government to make it available to the public and for society
to follow instructions and keep to the laid down rules and regulations of the
health authorities.
CPM as a major Professional Management body in Sri Lanka has been carrying
out its activities using technology and many of the activities done physically have
conducted virtually including the CPM Evening For Managers (EFM) programmes
which have been very popular among the membership. The Management and
Entrepreneurship professional programme was also conducted virtually and
the examinations held. We have also planned to conduct the CPM Regional
Conference virtually. Considering the difficulties faced by members many of the
CPD programme have been conducted free of charge to our membership. I
must also thank all our resource persons who have contributed to the success
of all these programmes. The CPM Digital Outreach and the Online Membership
Directory were also other services provided to members.
Many have contributed to make the publication of the journal a success including
the authors of articles, the Chairman and members of the journal committee and
the secretariat who have all worked hard work to publish a quality journal.
The journal will be sent to all our members local and overseas in the e-format
and I am confident that they will find it useful and help to widen their knowledge
and update them on current events.
I’ am pleased to send my best wishes to all our members in this New Year and
are hopeful that we will be able to soon reach near normalcy.

Prof. Lakshman R. Watawala

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