Service delivery: Management staff to undergo refresher courses

Service delivery: Management staff to undergo refresher courses
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Training
By Cecilia Ologunagba
Abuja, Feb. 16, 2018 (NAN) Mr Olajide Odewale, the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Budget and National Planning, says management staff of the ministry would undergo refresher courses on change management to enhance service delivery.
Odewale said this at the closing ceremony of the five-day Specialised Change Management Training Workshop for the staff of the ministry and its parastatals on Friday in Abuja.
The permanent secretary said that the ministry would improve on the quality of training for the staff and increase the number of participants as well.
“We will see how we can conduct refresher courses for management staff because it is my responsibility to enhance the capacity of human resources in the ministry.
“This training is an on-going process; it is not going to end with this batch.
“I assure you that as many staff that will like to attend the course would be given the opportunity to do so,” he said.
He said that training in change management course did not start with the batch of participants.
“It has started many years and some of us in this side of the classroom have had the opportunity of going through the training process.
“I don’t know how many of you did `Orosanye’s School’ in 2008/2009.
“We attended lectures conducted by the Head of Service through consultants on series of topics on change management as part of condition for promotion examinations.
“We all had to struggle to make sure that we understood what we learnt; we memorised the ones we did not know for us to pass the examination,’’ the permanent secretary said.
Odewale, however, urged the participants to put the lessons they learnt into practice.
Alhaji Arabi Dasuki, the Acting Director-General, Bureau of Public Service Reforms, said that the `Orosanye School’ was gradually coming back to civil service.
Dasuki also urged the participants to put what they learnt into practice in the discharge of their duties.
Also speaking, Mrs Nnenna Akajemeli, National Coordinator, SERVICOM, advised the participants to be drivers of change in their various organisations.
“The bottom line of our reforms is the quality of service that touches the lives of people.
“Therefore, the end of what you have learnt is to know when to put it into action. So let your actions show in a way you service people.
“Let it show in a way you serve people and the way you touch lives of all citizens,” she said.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that no fewer than 70 participants from the Ministry of Budget and National Planning as well its parastatals attended the workshop.
The parastatals are National Bureau of Statistics, Centre for Management Development, Budget Office and Nigerian Institute for Social Economic Research. (NAN)
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Edited by Salif Atojoko/Muhammad Suleiman Tola