In a bid to improve the efficiency and productivity of the staff of the Nigerian Port Authority (NPA) the management has organized a three-day leadership training for its workers.
The training conducted by Ken Nnamani Center for Leadership and Development (KNCLD) was held at the prestigious Best Western Hotel, Victoria Island Lagos last week.300 workers of the organisation benefited from the training.
At the end of the programme, the beneficiaries expressed satisfaction with the quality of knowledge they acquired and praised the management for organising the training which they said would go a long way in improving not only their official assignments but also their personal lives.
Speaking at the end of the training, Prof EbereOnwudiwe, the Executive Director of the centre said the exercise would go a long way in improving the efficiency of the workers and business activities at the ports.
He said:"At the end of the three-day programme the staff of NPA have gained a lot in terms of transformational leadership skills. They have had some additional capacity that would help them move the work forward. The training is necessary because the NPA has become a very big economic institution which is striving to become the hub of marine activity in Central and West Africa. The current leadership has done a lot to make the move towards the achievement of this kind of goal possible.
"Institutions need once in a while to renew their training in order to achieve their stated objectives. In the course of the training, the workers were made to have a better understanding of the essence of civil service reform, new change management and supportive skills to adapt to the reform. They were equipped with knowledge about new tools for managing and motivating public servants, new attitudes, work ethos, and values and personal success skills that will improve NPA output.
