“Goals Must Be Met, Targets Achieved”-Effedua

Commodore Duja Effedua (rtd), Rector, Maritime Academy of Nigeria.

The Rector Maritime Academy of Nigeria, MAN, Commodore Duja Effedua Emmanuel (rtd), in continuation of his restructuring mandate and the in order to concretize further the repositioning of the Academy has organized a workshop to ensure improved productive capacity for staffs of the Academy and the Federal Ministry of Transportation, FMOT.

With the Theme Cascading Performance Management-Achieving Performance Excellence, management staff of the Academy, their counterparts from the FMOT and other select maritime personal as well as media executives are participants at the workshop.

The Rector, while declaring the workshop open, enjoined the participants to take advantage of the training offered and learning opportunity provided by the workshop to reappraise their inputs to the development of the Academy in particular and the country in general.

Represented by Dr. Kelvin Okona, Director, Specialized Seafarers Training Courses,  the Rector said  the workshop was designed to upscale staff performance at MAN, review and re-evaluate their  work rate as well as look at commitment to duty by staff of the Academy and find out if there are hurdles affecting their performances and seek ways and means to address such issues.

“From 2017 when we came on board to date, the mandate given to us to restructure and reposition the Academy has recorded milestones which stakeholders  have commended but we continue to look inwards to improve and do better whatever we have to do because the room for improvement is never filled” the Rector said

Speaker after speaker at the workshop, Performance Management Systems, PMS, and underlying theories were dissected in the world class Rotimi Amaechi Auditorium, venue of the workshop.

Mr. Seun Babalola, one of the resource persons at the workshop stated that PMS is a set of management processes and practices which seek to ensure that goals are consistently being met in an effective and efficient manner.

“It is also the process of setting goals or Key Performance Indicators, KPIs, continuous monitoring and reviewing of performance to ensure the achievement of the set goals” he said

Alongside lecturers of the Academy consisting of  Dr. John Adeyanyu, Director and Coordinator Academic Affairs and others, resource persons x-rayed principles and theories of  Performance and Motivation theories as advocated by Edwin Locke, Stancey Adams, Victor Vrom and others.

Various modules on goal setting and how to achieve set targets/objectives were analyzed, reviewed and group assignments and tasks given to participants to discuss and carry out.

In a telephone chat with the Rector on the significance of the workshop, the Rector told Maritime Nigeria that the Workshop is part of efforts to drive and ensure that the economic policies of the federal government in the Maritime Industry are efficiently implemented to harness the potentials therein.

“The workshop, which is in conjunction with the FMOT, is intended galvanize  our staff into action and up the ante in service delivery in the ministry, rev productivity and bring about higher efficiency because so much work await all of us in all sectors of the economy”

“Inasmuch as we appreciate their contributions to and challenges faced by them in  attaining the modest successes at the Academy thus far, we acknowledge that there is much more to be done and  tasks to carry out which requires diligence, focus and the drive to aim higher and achieve more”

“The dynamics of life requires that we constantly be on our toes as technology offers faster and better ways of getting work done, we must therefore retool and close identified gaps in order to enhance our productivity levels and competencies”, the Rector said.

The four days workshop promises to be very enriching as the facilitators, ValueBridge Consulting, promise to deliver optimally.