Lagos State Government, through the Office of the Head of Service, Public Service Office, has organised a three-day retreat for Directors of Admin and Human Resources in the Lagos State Public Service.
In a keynote address at the opening session of the retreat held at the Lagos Continental Hotel, Victoria Island, Lagos, the Head of Service, Mr. Hakeem Muri-Okunola charged the Admin and HR Managers to see themselves as professionals who must ensure that processes and procedures effectively and efficiently align with the goals and objectives of MDAs critical to the T.H.E.M.E.S agenda of the State Government.
Muri-Okunola, who was represented by the Permanent Secretary, Public Service Office, Mrs. Sunkanmi Oyegbola, urged the managers to be innovative and creative in their approach to deliverables by encouraging and ensuring that their team attend regular training on the Learning Management System (LMS) and create a mutual working relationship within and around their work environment.
He also enjoined them to keep the flag flying in the strategic HR Eco-Systems by ensuring that they have a clear understanding of roles and act as role models for other workers in the Ministries, Departments and Agencies they are posted to.
“As Directors of Admin and Human Resource, you must all be innovative and creative in your approach to deliverables by ensuring and encouraging your team to attend training on the Learning Management System (LMS), monitoring post-training and introduction of a learning clinic within your MDAs for knowledge sharing”, Muri-Okunola said.
He also urged the HR Managers to encourage their Officers to set goals that will help drive the realisation of objectives while encouraging self-development and growth.
Earlier, the Director, Service Matters, Public Service Office, Princess Bopo Oyekan-Ismaila, advised participants to maximise the advantages inherent in the programme, emphasising the need to return the cadre to the enviable position it once occupied in the past.
In her words: “Let’s utilise this rare opportunity to harness the wealth of knowledge from our facilitators with a view to adding value to our work. Also, this is an avenue away from work to freely interact with your colleagues and share experience or understand new work culture. Now is the time to rescue our cadre and return it to the enviable position”, Oyekan-Ismaila said.
She also urged the participants to utilise the opportunity of the retreat to learn new things that would affect the state positively.
