NEW DELHI: Hollywood legend Henry Fonda will soon hone leadership skills of top bureaucrats, emphasising on ethics and values, through his character in ‘ 12 Angry Men .’ The government plans to screen Sydney Lumet’s 1957 classic , often used by corporates to teach people about conflict management and persuasion skills, during its programme to train officials.The corporate-style two-day ‘highquality’ training modules will be rolled out by the Centre in association with United Nations Development Programme. Many retired bureaucrats including former secretaries have been roped in to act as facilitators for such courses. Group A officers across the country will be asked to undergo these courses. Apart from the movie, the leadership course will include a briefing on understanding stakeholders of a government officer.12 Angry Men is the story of how 12 jurors are asked to reach a unanimous decision on whether a person is guilty or not, with the accused set to receive a death sentence if the jury finds him guilty. The film shows how a lone juror who had doubts about the evidence manages to win over his 11 colleagues.It offers lessons on building consensus among persons with different personalities from different backgrounds. The focus will be on bureaucrats “comprehending the power of influence in the functioning of leadership, relate to the traits and behaviors associated with leadership and deal with multiple stakeholders in a complex and multicultural environment.” The UNDP has prepared a two-day module on leadership on request of DoPT.The module on ethics and values will impress upon bureaucrats the drawing up of a ‘Life’s Balance Sheet’ relating to acceptable ethical conduct and any drop in the same, along with “listening to one’s inner voice for direction”. It will also stress on building relationships in the family and at work.“The entire programme will have the following ethos interspersing all sessions — accountability, creativity/possibility thinking, going within, positivity, positive vision and inspiring goals, actions: What is mine to do?” as per the course module. Leading a stress-free as well as a “wholesome life in all dimensions” will also be a part of the ‘Ethics and Values’ module.The Centre has told all Central Training Institutes and state institutes that the objective is to make available high quality modules designed by reputed institutes and delivered by National Facilitators to ensure better learning of skills.Among the facilitators on board are former coal secretary SK Shrivastava, former agriculture secretary Anup Kumar Thakur, National Shipping Board chairman Vishwapati Trivedi and former retired urban development secretaries Sudhir Krishna and Upendra Nath Bora.