Slow protocols negatively affect business...says Nevis Minister
By Pauline Waruguru
Nevis Reporter- SKNVibes.com
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Kyle Weeks
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CHARLESTOWN, Nevis - MINISTER of Social Development Hensley Daniel said slow protocols are negatively affecting business in Nevis.
“We are slow,” the Minister told participants at a Young Professionals Seminar (YPS), organised by HOPE, held at the Red Cross Building in Nevis on Friday, February22.
The participants were young professionals drawn from various companies and institutions in Nevis who deliberated on the topics: “Communication in the Workplace and Conflict Management”.
Minister Daniel called on the young professionals to take Nevis to a higher level of development. He endorsed the topics as key elements in enabling the young professionals to raise standards within the workplace and said there was need to communicate effectively in that environment.
“The ability to communicate is an asset,” he said and added, “The body language tells people your attitude. People who come to an office want to see an invisible sign that says ‘make me feel appreciated’.”
Earlier, Kyle Weeks, a HOPE official, told the participants that seminars such as the one held on Friday would make an investment in the educational advancement of the island’s youth. ~~Adz:Right~~
“Today’s seminar will see our facilitators taking an almost surgical approach to the importance of communication in the workplace, as well as how to manage conflict in the workplace,” said Weeks. The seminar is the second in a series of seminars that will be hosted by HOPE.
“We hear constant complaints from employers and even employees alike that this person or that person does not know how to speak properly on the phone, uses dialect too much in an office, does not know how to write a proper letter or memo, or that they are always causing confusion among the staff, and this person can’t get along with this person...and the complaints go on and on.
This workshop is supposed to address those very concerns,” Weeks noted.
“In a society where we spend more time complaining than finding solutions, it is commendable that there is a good bunch of employers in Nevis who have called on HOPE, Nevis to provide these solutions,” Weeks said.
Weeks told the participants that the seminar would accomplish two purposes - empowerment of the participants with the necessary skills expected to benefit their employers and also themselves; and the money paid for their participation would be used towards the development of the St. John’s Primary School as part of the HOPE Nevis School Adoption Programme 2007/2008.
HOPE Nevis is a group formed by young people from diverse backgrounds with diverse ideas and with one mission to do all in their power to help young people of Nevis excel. HOPE Nevis intends to motivate the young people of the island to channel their energies and priorities into worthwhile ventures such as sport, community involvement and education.
“We want to stand up and be counted as young people who didn’t simply sit back and let things be, but young people who got up and did something about the plight of our young people,” said Ron Daniel, Young Professional Seminar Chairperson 2008.
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| From left: Minister of Social Development Hensley Daniel, Steve Manners and Ron Daniel during the opening ceremony of the seminar on Friday |
A cross-section of Young Professionals at the seminar |
