Charles Darku, officials of IHRMP in a group photograph with mentees
Tullow Ghana, in collaboration with the Institute of Human Resource Management Practitioners (IHRMP), recently launched a maiden one-year pilot programme that would impart experimental knowledge, skills and competencies to some 25 mentees from seasoned mentors in the field.
Speaking at the launch on Monday, Irene Asare, HR and Business Services Director of Tullow Ghana Limited, said the initiative, dubbed: ‘The HR Mentoring programme,’ is the first of its kind in the country, and would address the increasing demands from businesses for HR professionals to be real enablers of business growth.
“The key trends that all HR practitioners need to be concerned with now is a superior employee experience, continuous learning millennial, work life balance to take momentum, culture over compensation and relooking at performance management,” she noted.
Ms Asare said 38 candidates applied for the programme, however, the mentees went through a selection process where they showed why they would like to be part of the HR Mentoring Programme.
“We managed to recruit 25 and each will be assigned to a senior HR professional as a mentor,” she explained.
Ms Asare explained that the mentees would have one-on-one quarterly mentoring sessions from the assigned mentors in addition to the monthly capacity building sessions.
She said Tullow initiated the programme because it formed part of their shared prosperity agenda.
“To the mentees, this is a rare opportunity as you already know that. I need not to say, make the best of it,” she said.
“Maximise this rare privilege to build your career and network to achieve your career and goals in life,” she said.
Charles Darku, outgoing Managing Director of Tullow Ghana Limited, encouraged HR practitioners not to be intimidated in any environment they found themselves but rather be adaptive to drive change in their institutions, themselves and through innovations.
Dr Edward Kwarpong, President of IHRMP, expressed delight about the programme, and called on members of IHRMP to join Tullow to set standards and major milestones that would provide mentors, mentees, assess impact of the programme that would sustain their efforts.
Out the 25 selected mentees, 18 were females with the rest being men.
A business desk report