Heritage Bank Partners Group

Heritage Bank Plc has gone into partnership with the Workforce Group in a bid to enhance impactful leadership that will contribute to the financial performance of an organisation. Speaking at a Learning & Development Leaders Conference organised by Workforce group in Lagos, recently, Mrs. Tochi Onuoha, Head, Learning and Development with Heritage Bank posited that it was imperative for the learning and development team of an organisation to understand the strategy of the organisation and build initiatives around it so that it could get management’s buy-in. Onuoha noted that generally, management sees learning and development unit of the organisation as a cost centre and not as a revenue generating unit and therefore it is important to come up with initiatives that would impact on return on investment (ROI) in line with the organisational drive. She noted that the impact might not be felt immediately but in the long run management would notice it, adding that it is better to have a well bonded team that is able to achieve better result than one that is not working as a team. The Head of Learning and Development of the bank also advised business young professionals to invest in themselves more than their organisations’ in a bid to enhance their career growth and development. Earlier, some chief executive offices had expressed the views that a unit that does not understand the business strategy of a firm as well as the business environment in which it operates, should be outsourced in a bid to make such organisation run as a learner firm.