The Chief Executive officer (CEO) of Union Savings and Loans, Mr. Philip Oti Mensah has urged students to channel their energies into generating business ideas instead of focusing on academic work alone.
Mr Mensah made the call while addressing students at the Pentecost University College (PUC) in Accra last Thursday.
He encouraged the students to strive on building a business network adding that “While in school you should do your best to engage the world and build a network, at least for me that is what counted.”
He advised that “once you get the opportunity, you need to be very stubborn about what you want to do. Stubborn in terms of you not following different things and listening to different ways of driving your business.”
“History tells us that only few Ghanaian businesses are really successful and are able to survive beyond two decades. It means that fundamentally something is wrong. If you want to be different you have to do things differently,” he told the students.
The CEO of the Unions Savings and Loans was speaking at this year’s Informative Tertiary Train (iTT) Summit held at the Pentecost University College.
The summit is an annual programme organized by VIPZ CONSULT to provide in-depth information to tertiary students and to help bridge the tertiary-corporate institutions gap.
The 2015 edition of the annual symposium on leadership was dubbed “Emerging global leaders forum via self-development.”
Mr Mensah touched on broad topics of leadership skills in business, strategic thinking skills, organizing skills, critical thinking and innovation as well as self-motivation skills.
Organizers of the programme said Mr. Philip Oti – Mensah’s was strategically chosen to speak at the symposium because of successes he had chalked as a result of giant strides he took in rebranding the Union Savings and Loans which enabled the institution to win the “Best SME Finance Company Ghana 2014” award by the Global Banking and Finance review.
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Credit: Union Savings and Loans