RTK: Time to Say Goodbye to Political Influences

It says: Shenoll Muharremi

When we talk about RTK, maybe we should be careful that we always keep the institution and not generalize how we did the last few days. The institution's reputation and credibility is the most important. Individuals/officials in each organisation can be found that are not relevant or disrupting daily image and operations, but usually the next majority of personnel are doing the good work.

The situation in RTK is certainly not an exception in our culture of capture and controlling public institutions. Consequently, we're trying here to learn from the past, and do with the best we can to maintain and strengthen the integrity of the public institution, not destroy it.

Probably the inside is actually helpful. Letters, distances, denouncing and resignations show that. And maybe the ones known are only 10% and another 90% unknown. But the impression of a toxic environment prevails. This is no exception, even in large organisations and companies and also in small teams sometimes such toxic situations prevail.

I say this in order to share my experience with different teams over the decades and show sympathy and solidarity for people inside RTK who can actually get to a more critical stage. It's not your fault this is the case. This will definitely pass, like everything else, but maybe we have to find focus and positive to learn as much of this as possible and do our best not to repeat things.

Personally from such toxic situations, during my career, I've seen cases where international Presidential organisations have hired consultancy and therapy professionals to identify AIDS and help teams. There have been many more cases when any individual consulting therapy made us choose to remove the negative elements from our mind, nothing extraordinary is that.

But perhaps the main lesson from this poor experience is: T E DO NOT POLITIK PERSONA IN public institutions that are ahead of independentness. It seems that naming the TV director, who is political, has been one of the main problems.

Consequently, when the new director is elected, we have to make sure that he is professional and, above all, good manager, which includes dealing with others. Then you also need to look at the reference terms if the director is a manager and should not be involved in editorial policy. Actually, the manager's position is business manager and there's nothing to be part of the news, she/he provides for the management of the daily institution/workers.

The next lesson may be to invest in team cohesion. Looks like there's groups and factions that have differences. It is certain that in RTK a professional spirit and as much as possible will not have external effects. That's easy to say, difficult and feasible in a country and society that has ambition to politicise, control and capture everything that's public. But goals like this should be medium and long-term.

The spirit of normality should return to RTK as soon as possible. Nobody benefits from continuing the crisis situation. It's useless to continue with uncertainty and this negativeness. Nobody deserves to get into situations like this and work in such situations. Mental health damage can be too great to tolerate something like this.

Perhaps the first and key step is to suspend or leave the post of all political persons in order to create a climate for stabilisation of the situation and phoscus in improving the situation. This would help and ease the syuaja temporarily with the imidia effects.

Then you have to look at all the people affected with a positive approach you should try to help, not be punished. If there's been such high pressure from management, we don't have to take precautions, we have to help you and create a good professional environment so that they can give their best.

We should be aware that this situation does not solve as quickly as some have a desire and think. LVV's management culture and Prime Minister Kurti is such that he does not accept the guilt of his own people and so far has not fired anyone because of situations or scandals in institutions. So it is not expected that there will be an exception now. But those in question may resign as the most pragmatic way out of this situation.

But that does not mean that the changes will be quick. Although this is a case of white and black and it doesn't take much investigation and analysis to act, we are in the Balkans where anger and prayer dominate each other, not professionalism and ethics. The president, who has not been active with cases where the LVV's interest has been violated in public interest, now needs to become active and help the situation. Its commitment to the government has damaged credibility and its good work with diplomacy. This can be corrected by it.

Anyway, we're now at a stage where we have the bodies needed to know how to continue. The main goal is to restore RTK normality and integrity and maintain trust, its reputation. All that violates this goal must be addressed and intervened without delay. But this, repair and strain, will take more time than we think. There should also be procedures and the administrative and legal regulations to be observed on certain occasions. But there's a solution, and it's going to be, because there's no other way, it's just late.

Very important that when new selections are made, we do not repeat our mistakes because we will always have similar conclusions. As a result, changes in management should be followed by pragmatic plans for the emotional and professional support of personnel and the return of normality and the creation of a professional product environment. We should not neglect the emotional state some may have experienced.

However, from each disaster we can learn and do something good from it. Some suggest that we do not allow a crisis to slip away without using it for something good, and at this point we may have many benefits in the future if we take appropriate action and learn from the past. Things are already known, only the right actions remain to take the next few days.