Institute Charges Inductees HR Professionals To Drive Change

The Chartered Institute of Personnel Management of Nigeria(CIPM) has charged astir 274 Lagos quality resources(HR) professionals, who were inducted into the institute, to thrust alteration successful the country.

CIPM had earlier conducted a specialised induction ceremonial for Lagos State authorities nationalist work staff, marking a important milestone successful the professionalisation of quality assets absorption wrong the state’s civilian service.

No less than 141 officers were formally inducted into the Institute, with 8 individuals inducted arsenic Full Members (MCIPM) and 133 inducted arsenic Associate Members (ACIPM) done the HR Practitioners way astatine the 65th Induction Ceremony of CIPM held successful Lagos astatine the weekend.

At the ceremony, themed ‘Resilient People, Responsive Service: Charting the Future of HR successful the Public Service,’ the president and president of CIPM, Mallam Ahmed Ladan Gobir, underscored the evolving relation of HR successful driving translation crossed authorities institutions successful his keynote address.

While welcoming the inductees astatine the event, helium described it arsenic ‘a coronation of potential’ and reminded the caller members that their CIPM lapel is not conscionable symbolic but a ineligible licence to practise HR successful Nigeria.
He encouraged them to enrol successful the recently launched CIPM HR Leadership Academy, designed to deepen expertise crossed HR worth chains, and to actively enactment successful Lagos State subdivision and Alausa Chapter events, arsenic good arsenic nationalist programmes similar the CIPM International Conference and Exhibition (ICE), among others.

According to him, ‘We are not present to tick boxes oregon crown titles. We are present to awaken trailblazers who volition marque the nationalist work not conscionable functional, but phenomenal.’ He urged the inductees to clasp resilience and responsiveness, noting that ‘resilience is not forged successful comfort; it is hammered successful the vigor of challenges and polished successful the grit of persistence.’
The caput of the Service of Lagos State, Shuaheeb Bode Agoro, who was represented by the imperishable caput of the Local Government Commission, Mrs Abosede George, successful his remarks, emphasised the centrality of HR successful organisational effectiveness, stating that HR is the astir important section of immoderate organisation. Without it, different branches are ineffective. She charged the inductees to permission a bequest of excellence, urging them to guarantee they permission the civilian work amended than they recovered it.

The impermanent speaker, who is besides the imperishable secretary, Office of Local Governments, Establishments & Training, Bibilomo Olayide Olushekun, delivered a compelling lecture connected the aboriginal of HR successful nationalist service, highlighting the urgent request for translation successful the look of integer disruption, economical volatility, and rising nationalist expectations.

Public work has moved from paper-based to integer technology. HR is cardinal successful this transition, she said. She outlined the attributes of a modern workplace, including Digital HR, Agile teams, Real-time service, and Transparency and Accountability, stressing that HR indispensable pb the complaint successful reshaping policies, reskilling staff, and driving innovation.

Olushekun warned that accepted bureaucratic systems, marked by dilatory approvals and outdated practices, breed dysfunction and nationalist frustration. She called connected HR professionals to beryllium the span betwixt today’s challenges and tomorrow’s opportunities, asserting that without a resilient and responsive HR driving the transition, advancement stalls.