The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has expressed its commitment to sustaining policies targeted towards training and re-training of members of staff to enhance efficiency. Its Director, General Services and Coordinating Director, Human Resource Management Department, Alhaji Abdul Rasaq Salawu, disclosed this in Abuja while declaring open a one day ‘Peak Performance Coaching Course for Assistant Directors and Public Relations Officers of the scheme. Salawu noted that “as a leading youth organisation in Nigeria and the Africa, the workforce must be trainable and up-to-date in order to conform to prevailing global trends.
“I commend the press and public relations unit for initiating such an invaluable training in line with the policy directive of the management of the scheme. Other departments should replicate the positive development,” he urged. Responding, the Director, Press and Public Relations, Mrs Adenike Adeyemi, said the workshop was aimed at raising the bar, improve work standard and enhance the capacity of the Scheme, to uphold peak performance and remain relevant to the peculiar challenges of Nigeria as a nation.
“The training was geared towards repositioning staff of the Scheme to reinvigorate the “can do spirit”, be at the top of the game and unlock the secret weapon of achieving relevant and best practices in the workplace,” she said. In his presentation on ‘Work Ethics’, the resource person, Mr. JFK Abiona, urged the workshop participants to continuously seek for new knowledge that is relevant to their official engagements. He admonished the staff to make themselves relevant to the Scheme at all times by being professionally branded and acquiring entrepreneurial skills.
He maintained that NYSC has grown in leaps and bounds over the years and has the highest social capital in the country, and therefore urged the staff to strive to sustain the achievements of the Scheme and to become the best in their chosen fields.
