Productivity Awareness Week gets under way with workshop for top officials |25 July 2023
Minister Francourt addressing the gathering during the launch of the workshop
The Ministry of Employment and Social Affairs has organised a two-day ‘Executive Leadership Transformational’ workshop at The Guy Morel Institute to empower the participants with indispensable knowledge and skills on how to discover and manage personal leadership, as well as enhance their ability to lead.
It forms part of the ministry’s Productivity Awareness Week for 2023, which is taking place under the theme ‘A positive mindset and attitude for a productive Seychelles’.
It was the Minister for Employment and Social Affairs, Patricia Francourt, who had the honour to officially launch this year’s activities and open the productivity workshop.
In her speech, Minister Francourt expressed how the Productivity Awareness campaign will sensitize employers, employees, students and the public at large and how important it is to know what it is and also what it means within a work place.
“For the purpose of our campaign, it means efficient and effective use of productive efforts and resources, labour, capital, materials, energy, time, information among others,” she said.
She added that the objective of this programme was to equip leaders and managers with the necessary tools on how to manage their organisations more strategically.
“The reason that we are targeting people in the higher positions is because they will be able to share the knowledge gained with those under them and this will create the cascading effect where these information reaches the employees that is a large quantity.”
The workshop included a presentation by Timothe Sinon, a senior lecturer at The Guy Morel Institute who said that productivity looks at the quality of work and not just the quantity.
“This training will help in making these leaders reflect and possibly change their way of thinking, viewing and approaching things,” he stated.
Over twenty high government officials are attending the workshop which ends today.
Diane Larame
Photos by Louis Toussaint
