By Ishaya Ibrahim, News Editor
In a quest to build on the foundation laid by previous managements, the Standards Organization of Nigeria (SON) is holding a four-day leadership strategy retreat in Calabar, Cross Rivers State.
The Retreat is aimed at repositioning SON for greater effectiveness and efficiency.
SON has is saddled with the responsibility of setting and enforcing standards for industrial goods in Nigeria .
Former Director General/CEO of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency ( NIMASA), leadership coach and Nigeria’s foremost public turnaround leader, Dr. Dakuku Peterside, will deliver the keynote speech at the retreat, scheduled to hold between February 9 and February 12 in Calabar.
The DG/CEO of SON, Farouk Salim, said the organisation is honoured to have Dr. Peterside join SON on the agenda-setting retreat.
“We look forward to hearing Dakuku Peterside’s story of how he took NIMASA from an underperforming regulatory agency to a world class institution.
“We will have the privilege to learn of the philosophy that inspired him and the methods that gave him and his team exceptional results,” Salim said.
Peterside will be speaking on the theme of the retreat “SON: Growing an effective and efficient Regulatory organization.”
A statement by the public relations department of the SON, which was sent to TheNiche said the strategy retreat is the first major outing in a series of agenda-setting programmes to reposition the agency and set her on the path of becoming the foremost standards organization in Africa.
“Under the new leadership, the DG is determined to make SON a role model and safeguard Nigerians from the risk of substandard products whether manufactured in the country or imported into the country. SON plans to ramp up enforcement of standards in the next few weeks and make Nigeria hostile for producers of substandard products,” the statement added.
Dr. Peterside, author of the book, ‘Strategic Turnaround’ will be joined at the retreat by other renowned organisational development experts .
The retreat is facilitated by SAMUELSON B. V. Professional Services, a leading consulting firm in the country. Other resource persons will include Tony Epelle, Managing Consultant and CEO of SAMUELSON, Dr. Eric Ighalo, a renowned trainer and facilitator, Dr. Joseph Odumodu, a former DG of SON, Barr Osuagwu Sunny Uwanakwa, Chairman of SON review Committee set up by the Salim-led administration and Elijah Affi, Managing Director, Take-Out Media.
The four day retreat will deal with issues like goal setting, art and science of execution for regulatory agencies, key performance indicators and stakeholder management, among other issues.