Ishmael Yamson & Associates
   2ND Floor J B PLAZA,
   ACHIMOTA-GIMPA RD. (KISSEMAN JUNCTION)
   P.O. Box 3260
   Accra, Ghana
Programme 9

THE LEADERSHIP JOURNEY



SUMMARY

Companies and Organisations need assurance of sustainable outstanding performance. To succeed in creating this assurance requires that companies create shared vision and strategies, create high performance teams where people trust each other and build a process of renewing the core engines of growth.
Many Companies and Organisations pursue these initiatives either through seminars, workshops or lectures. Others launch huge programmes with spectacular launches where the momentum then fizzles away soon after the launch.
The Leadership Journey takes a completely new approach. It brings leaders together at a place away from home and city life. All you need for this journey are your legs, your head, a pair of walking shoes and stamina. The rest will be provided. The location will not be disclosed; it has to be discovered. It is always an exciting journey.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

The Leadership Journey will help companies and organisations:
1. Challenge existing norms, beliefs and ways of doing things;
2. Crystallize the organization’s vision, mission, strategies and plans;
3. Build commitment to the delivery of the strategies and plans;
4. Provide guidelines for monitoring and evaluation;
5. It will also bond leaders together and challenge them to outstanding, sustained performance.
It is open and frank. You must experience it to believe it.

METHODOLOGY

Interactive discussions.

TARGETS

Middle to Senior Managers Versions for junior managers and supervisors are also available.

DURATION: 3 days

DATE : Company Specific

COST: This is an out-of-location programme. The cost for the programme is GHC 15,000.00 and this does not include the cost of hotel rental, meals and the cost of transporting the participants to and from the programe venue.
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Speeches

The Chairman of Unilever, Mr Ishmael Yamson, has identified poor governance as the leading contributory factor for Africa's retrogression. He said poor performance by African governments in accountability, transparency, predictability and participation was the bane of the continent's development and progress.

Mr Yamson, therefore, proposed major changes to reverse the trend and the adoption of strategic approaches to Africa’s development by its political leaders.

He was presenting a paper on the topic, "Consolidating Political Stability in Africa for Accelerated Growth":

Possible Initiatives/Role of the Business Sector in Consolidating Political Stability", in the first ever Daily Graphic Accra Governance Dialogue in Accra yesterday.

Mr Yamson challenged governments in Africa to grow out of the tendency of becoming preoccupied with short-term problems and short-term strategies and stressed the need for them to think in the long term and act with the strategic objectives of their countries in view in order to realise the benefits of good governance.

Linking good governance to political stability, high economic growth, sustainable development and accelerated regional and continental integration, he admitted the difficulty in getting good governments on the continent.

That, according to him, was because adherence to the principles of good governance was not robust.

Addressing the factors which drove good governance, Mr Yamson listed nine inclusive principles as important for Africa’s efforts at building and sustaining political stability.

"African leadership with integrity and trust, the capacity and ability to design, own and deliver sound and transformational economic policies, credibility, democracy and culture, as well as integrity, are drivers of good governance," he said.

     Ishmael Yamson, Snr.