The Federal Government has reaffirmed its commitment to reposition the public service operations by improving the 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 News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that 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 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 its 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 the middle management level officers in her office.
She said that the workshop focused on” 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 so as 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.
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“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.
In his contribution, Mogbadelo, said the whole essence of the training was to ensure that the selected officers acquire new skills as the global workforce was going digital.
“So many things are changing around us today. In fact, the global workforce now is digital, the workspace is a digital space. So, you can be in Nigeria and be working in the UK to earn your salaries.
“The world is changing. So, if we remain static as a service, we will not be able to meet the challenges of the future. We will be totally disconnected.
“So, we don’t want to be disconnected from the world, that is why new training programmes are put together to improve in the entire public service,” he said.
Also, Mr Francis Binuyo, who delivered lecture on `Attitudinal and Cultural Change Dimension of FCSSIP25,” said FCSSIP25 was one of the key reforms by government, to make service/regulatory functions better since the advent of democratic dispensation.
According to Binuyo, the workshop will review highlights of FCSSIP25, determine performance characteristics and advise on the dimensions of change for FCSSIP25 effectiveness. (NAN)
