Learn to listen-MD of Primetime Ltd advises leaders

Managing Director of Primetime Ltd Nana Akua Ankomah-Asare has urged people especially leaders to always listen and learn to pay attention to their staff when they speak.
According to her, her philosophy has always been to give an equal opportunity to everyone to share their ideas because she is of the view that, ideas come from all sorts of places.
Talking to Rev Erskine on Y 107.9 FM’s Y Leaderboard Series she said, “A client service executive can shoot down my idea, if only you can present superior arguments why something else should be done, I have no problem with it at all”.
Talking about her experience she revealed that the whole idea about the National Science and Maths Quiz (NSMQ) being put on social media was not her idea but rather one of her staff members.
“But when it was presented to me I gave it the support that it needed and that is how it should be. I always say that whatever my staff say about me, they can’t say I don’t listen because although I’m young I don’t understand social media the way they do from their youthful perspective” she said.
She added that this act has helped her gather ideas from all sorts of place, “sometimes from collaborators, family, friends all over and so I don’t say ‘no’ unless there is a very very strong reason why it cannot be done or should not be done, otherwise if an idea is presented I try to encourage a healthy dialogue so that people can say whatever they think and it always works”.
She believes that innovation is not from one perspective and as such everyone should be given an opportunity to express themselves.
Nana Akua advised leaders to always give their staff a chance to express themselves and share their opinion on matters concerning their organization because the solution might come from any one of them.
By: Gyamfuah Owusu-Ackom