The Governor-general of Graduate School of Governance and Leadership (GSGL), Rev. Gideon Titi-Offei, has underscored the need for a world-class Africa postgraduate school to complement Africa’s tremendous effort at establishing democratic governance and economic stability.
Such a school, he said, would transform the human resources of the continent into highly productive human capital with the requisite competencies.
He made the call at the first graduation ceremony of GSGL on the Spintex Road in Accra on Saturday.
Ninety-six business executives graduated with a certificate in Business Administration at the end of a 12-week course at the school.
The course offered them a broad-based practical understanding of business management and its functional areas with emphasis on best practices.
The GSGL is a prestigious Christian postgraduate school which is currently offering accelerated executive education programmes through its centre for executive education.
Participants who were awarded the certificates completed six courses at the core stage of the study programme and one course at the specialisation stage.
Rev. Titi-Offei said GSGL’s value-added training model revolved around a dynamic knowledge market that introduced students to the latest thinking and concept within the knowledge environment.
He said that would turn out Africa’s political, corporate and business leaders ready to impact their skills on Africa and engage the world.
He advised the graduates to ensure that they impacted positively on their workers in an atmosphere of love, peace and joy.
Touching on “Entrepreneur’s Motivated Mind”, the Executive Chairman of Edge Institute, Mr Ato Sarpong, said entrepreneurs had some qualities which made them successful.
He said an entrepreneur needed to lead his or her own life, have unlimited opportunities, discover his/her passion, have a spirit of intuition and perseverance and be a risk taker.
Mr Sarpong said engaging in those practices motivated leaders to achieve a particular goal and aim.
For his part, the Board Chairman of GSGL, Rev Dr S.B. Asore, said education did not end after graduation, since the search and quest for knowledge was a never-ending venture.
He said with the financial meltdown affecting economies globally with Africa not being an exception, it had become imperative that the upcoming generation was taught the principles becoming successful entrepreneurs.
The ceremony was also used to launch a new programme, a “Certificate of Advanced Studies in Executive Business Administration”.
The programme would be running for 16 weeks and has been designed for corporate and business executives.
It covers areas such as contemporary leadership, managerial accounting, business economics, human resource management, general management and business plan development.
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