{"id":1392,"date":"2023-02-17T12:42:31","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T11:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.mlscn.gov.ng\/?p=1392"},"modified":"2023-02-17T12:45:55","modified_gmt":"2023-02-17T11:45:55","slug":"mlscn-codix-pharma-train-medical-lab-scientists-on-leadership-excellence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.mlscn.gov.ng\/index.php\/2023\/02\/17\/mlscn-codix-pharma-train-medical-lab-scientists-on-leadership-excellence\/","title":{"rendered":"MLSCN, CODIX PHARMA TRAIN MEDICAL LAB SCIENTISTS ON LEADERSHIP EXCELLENCE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/web.mlscn.gov.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/0c1ee138-81cb-40b9-8ed8-a65af405fc2b-1024x658.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1391\" srcset=\"https:\/\/old.mlscn.gov.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/0c1ee138-81cb-40b9-8ed8-a65af405fc2b-1024x658.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/old.mlscn.gov.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/0c1ee138-81cb-40b9-8ed8-a65af405fc2b-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/old.mlscn.gov.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/0c1ee138-81cb-40b9-8ed8-a65af405fc2b-768x493.jpg 768w, https:\/\/old.mlscn.gov.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/0c1ee138-81cb-40b9-8ed8-a65af405fc2b.jpg 1224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In furtherance of its&nbsp;human capital development agenda,&nbsp;the Medical Laboratory Science Council of Nigeria (MLSCN) recently&nbsp;collaborated with Codix Pharma, a Lagos-based firm,&nbsp;to&nbsp;mount a Leadership training program for Medical Laboratory Scientists in the directorate cadre.&nbsp;The&nbsp;two-day&nbsp;event which was held in Abuja,&nbsp;had in attendance Practitioners drawn from various zones of the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While&nbsp;addressing the participants&nbsp;on the essence of the program, the facilitator,&nbsp;Dr Samuel&nbsp;Owokoniran,&nbsp;harped on the imperative of&nbsp;transforming&nbsp;and&nbsp;equipping&nbsp;MLSCN and&nbsp;Medical Laboratory Scientistswith the right kind of leadership&nbsp;to achieve organizational goals. He also&nbsp;emphasized&nbsp;the need&nbsp;to manage change&nbsp;in a&nbsp;multicultural system&nbsp;hoping&nbsp;to build a performing and productive team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to him,&nbsp;leaders should be equipped to track performances&nbsp;effectively.&nbsp;\u201cWe are&nbsp;aiming&nbsp;to train leaders to become&nbsp;excellent&nbsp;leaders in our current world. It is not&nbsp;only&nbsp;about goals and objectives but&nbsp;also,&nbsp;leaders should be able to track performances of team members.&nbsp;The organization as a whole should see they are productive enough to achieve&nbsp;the&nbsp;goal\u201d&nbsp;he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Furthermore, the facilitator&nbsp;noted that change is&nbsp;known to be the only constant thing in life. \u201cWe realize that Change Management is of the essence because in every organization, what is constant is change. For us to be able to adapt to change, we would be able to adapt easily to changes in the environment,\u201d he said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile,&nbsp;Kim Jahkim,&nbsp;the&nbsp;Marketing Access andGovernment Affairs Manager,&nbsp;Codix Pharma,&nbsp;in his remarks,&nbsp;noted that the program was organized in furtherance of the company\u2019s corporate social responsibility (CSR), and reiterated&nbsp;the importance&nbsp;of MLSCN&nbsp;in&nbsp;the validation of&nbsp;rapid test kits. He&nbsp;expressed the&nbsp;willingness of his company&nbsp;to&nbsp;deepen&nbsp;collaboration with&nbsp;the&nbsp;Council&nbsp;to&nbsp;improve&nbsp;service&nbsp;delivery such that with new trends of diseases, the Council would be up to date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of the modules covered during the training program were: Excellence in Leadership; Effective Performance Management; and Change Management among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In furtherance of its&nbsp;human capital development agenda,&nbsp;the Medical Laboratory Science Council of Nigeria (MLSCN) recently&nbsp;collaborated with Codix Pharma, a Lagos-based<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1391,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mlscn.gov.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mlscn.gov.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mlscn.gov.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mlscn.gov.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mlscn.gov.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1392"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/old.mlscn.gov.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1394,"href":"https:\/\/old.mlscn.gov.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392\/revisions\/1394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mlscn.gov.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.mlscn.gov.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mlscn.gov.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.mlscn.gov.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}