MD Multichoice supports the formalization of workplace mentorship

Managing Director of Multichoice Ghana, Cecil Sunkwa-Mills has supported the call for senior staff in organizations to make conscious efforts to train and develop young minds they work with through formalized mentoring.
According to him, if senior staff are made responsible for the development of their team members, it will go a long way for them (senior staff) to ensure their growth and mentor them adequately no matter what.
“It is good to formalize workplace mentoring because every senior member needs to develop her/his team. If mentorship is formalized in our institutions, most senior associates will comply and do that. But more important is peer mentorship which we don’t do, regardless of it being one of the most powerful forms of mentorship”.
He noted that the older generation should change their perception of peer influence saying, “Peer influence is not always negative”.
Cecil furthered that there are always peers who are more mature than their own friends and can make good impressions on their friends and colleagues, especially at the workplace. “The matured peers can help you grow and improve upon yourself on both the professional and personal level and this is why most old folks ask of your friends”.
Advising the youth further on how to grow at the workplace, the MD of Multichoice said, “Young people need to learn and develop themselves in the area of emotional intelligence”.
He motioned to the youth not to believe whatever they are told or hear about and in the corporate world. According to him, what one sees and knows is always different from what that individual has perceived.
By: Joel Sanco