By Olakunle Olafioye
In furtherance of its human capital development programme, Courteville Business Solutions PLC has successfully trained twenty-five new middle management staff cadre of the company.
At the graduation ceremony held at the company’s offices in Sabo, Yaba, Dr. Bola Akindele, Group Managing Director of the Company, revealed that the new graduands were the fifth set to be trained in career development for improved performance on their jobs and other aspects of life.
“As a company, we realised very early that there was a huge gap in knowledge and experience for those younger staff to occupy middle management positions in the organisation, so we decided on providing the requisite training that will adequately prepare them for the higher responsibilities,” Dr. Akindele revealed.
The GMD said the company invited experts from various fields to facilitate the training and to enrich the course modules in order to broaden the trainees’ knowledge in several key areas.
The Pro-Chancellor of the Summit University, Offa Kwara State, Alhaji Rafiu Ebiti, who chaired the ceremony, commended Courteville for providing such high powered training programme for its members of staff without any string attached, describing the initiative as a rare opportunity workers hardly find with many employers. “In this part of the world, we are far behind in technology hence the need to identify new areas and make technology a focus for training and development.
“The world is not waiting for us as they have advanced in technological skills, while we have no choice than to be technologically literate, which Courteville as a company provides”, he stated.
In his contribution, Dr. Muda Yusuf, Chief Executive Officer, Centre for the Promotion of Private Enterprises and keynote speaker at the event, admonished business owners to take primary responsibility in finding creative strategies to navigate their business through the present harsh economic policies of the government. “The strategies could be economic, social or political. It is the people that make things happen, you may not have the money but you can leverage on relationships which money sometimes cannot buy,” he advised.
Speaking on the qualifications for the training programme, Alhaji Wale Sonaike, the Deputy Managing Director, said trainees must be graduate employees of the company, who must have passed through the preliminary employment stages and undergone intensive management training in preparation for middle management positions to be able to cope with the rigours and the dynamics of the business world.