HoS underscores essence of succession planning in organisation

As a result of loss of experienced personnel without adequate replacement processes, the Ondo State Government through the Office of the Head of Service and Supreme Management Training and Consultancy Services Lagos, organised a training programme on Succession Planning and Performance Management for Human Resource Officers and Senior Management Staff of the Civil Service.

The Ondo State Head of Service, Barrister Toyin Akinkuotu while declaring the programme open stated that Succession Planning and Performance Management are key in any establishment that must bequeath healthy legacies to the up-coming generation of technocrats.

Speaking at the event held in Ondo State Public Service Training Institute, Akinkuotu in his speech said it is clear knowledge that Ondo State public service is top heavy today as a result of inadequate succession planning in the past years.

He said categorically that rather than having a pyramidal-shaped service in the bureaucratic system, the system now has a ‘V’-shaped public service and the level of productivity has continued to dwindle overtime.

He said the core values of probity, transparency, accountability, efficient and effective service delivery would continue to be entrenched in the state public service structure, adding that as the hub of public service activities, his office was aware of its clear mandate to provide leadership and direction.

He said this particular training is expected to take all the participants and Ondo State public service through a redemptive process of bringing out the bureaucratic values inherent at the various levels of the state public service, saying it will thereby promote quality and productivity in government business.

The HoS advised the participants to take the training programme as a serious business so as to fashion out considerable solution for the public service in spite of the present national economic recession.

The chief consultant for the training who is also the president of Ibadan Business School, Chief Yinka Fasuyi in his speech said that it becomes imperative for the public service to institutionalise a sound process of succession planning as well as efficient mechanisms and procedures for managing the performance of employees.

He said if the present administration’s vision is to build a new Ondo State where honesty, prosperity, and confidence can once again be her self-identity, the state public service must rise to the occasion by repositioning itself and casting all vestiges of incompetence and inefficiency largely occasioned by the lack of a well institutionalised succession planning and performance management framework.