Nigeria to train workers digitally

The Federal Government has reaffirmed its commitment to repositioning public service operations by improving civil servants’ digital skills to meet global standards.

 

The Head of the Civil Service of the Federation (HOCSF), Dr. Folasade Yemi-Esan, made this known at a one-day free Leadership Development Workshop on Thursday in Abuja.

 

The workshop was organised by the Integrated Institute of Professional Management (IIPM) in collaboration with the office of the HOCSF.

 

Represented by Dr. John Mogbadelo, Director of Civil Service Transformation in the office, Yemi-Esan said that Nigeria needed reforms to enable it to fix the entire civil service, economy, society, and political sector.

 

“Reform is all about transformation; it is an institutional process of transforming an organisation for improved service delivery,” she said.

 

According to Esan, the workshop was organised for 40 directorate and middle management level officers in her office.

 

She said that the workshop focused on the” Attitudinal and Cultural Change Dimension of the Federal Civil Service Strategy and Implementation Plan 2021 to 2025 (FCSSIP25)”.

 

She said the FCSSIP25 was created to address the challenges faced in the civil service to improve the state of the entire service.

 

“The FCSSIP25 is built on levers of capacity building and talent management, performance, IPPIS-HR, innovation, digitisation, and staff welfare which are classified as pillars of FCSSIP25.

 

“Consequently, this leadership workshop is tailored towards providing the participants with attitudinal and cultural change dimension of FCSSIP25 to produce measurable impacts on the civil service community.

 

“Effecting this change requires that officers driving the FCSSIP25 must be equipped with the requisite skills in delivering the expected results,” Yemi-Esan said.

 

She also charged the government and private organisations to adequately train their officers to develop employee skills and capacity for better service delivery.

 

The facilitator who delivered a lecture on “Attitudinal and Cultural Change Dimension of FCSSIP25,” Mr Francis Binuyo, said FCSSIP25 was one of the key reforms by the government, to make service regulatory functions better since the advent of democratic dispensation.

 

According to Binuyo, the workshop will review the highlights of FCSSIP25, determine performance characteristics and advise on the dimensions of change for FCSSIP25’s effectiveness.

 

NAN/Dominica Nwabufo