The Guardian Abisuga bags award, becomes CIHRM fellow

The Registrar, Chartered Institute of Human Resource Management (CIHRM), Dr. Eretan Ologbon (left), presenting an award and certificate to Olukemi Abisuga, at the institute’s induction, in Lagos.

The Guardian Executive Assistant, in charge of the offices of the Managing Director/Editor-in-Chief and Editor (Daily), Olukemi Abisuga, has been inducted as a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Human Resource Management (CIHRM). Abisuga was also awarded as a Certified Human Resource Professional (CHRP).

The ceremony was held during the institute’s April induction ceremony in Lagos, which had the theme: ‘HR: Building a People Management Community in the Workplace.’

Abisuga, while receiving the award from the CIHRM Registrar, Dr. Eretan Ologbon, promised to use the feat to impact the flagship positively, noting that it meant a lot to her and would spur her to greatness.

Presenting the keynote address, CIHRM Fellow, Ayoade Igbeyi, said it was high time Human Resource (HR) practitioners built people that would manage Artificial Intelligence (AI) and automated systems in workplaces.

Igbeyi, who is also the President and Chairman of the Governing Council, Nigerian Institute of Training and Development (NITAD), said the duty of effective HR managers was how they build people management communities in the workplace.

According to her, “We need to have a community of people to ensure jobs are well done and their welfare is well taken care of.” On how leaders and organisations can achieve success in the post-COVID-19 pandemic, she said they must lead through change, embrace diversity and inclusion, as well as brutal honesty about reality and credible inspired hope. According to her, they must have an agile mindset, digitally enabled and customer-centric approach.

The institute’s Registrar, Dr. Eretan Ologbon, in his welcome address, said that the HR profession had evolved from the era of being merely one of personnel management to one of human capital management. He noted that the world is in dire need of professionals of the institution as the level of decadence in the management of human resources, nosedives in most parts of the world.

He added that it was sufficient to say that the demand for knowledge and certification of professionals in the HR field of study would help to accelerate the optimal utilisation of human resources in society.