ENGIE Energy Launches Academy to Support Capacity Building

  • MySol Academy is aimed at increasing capacity in the energy sector.
  • About 25 members of the firm’s staff have been trained in the first cohort.

ENGIE Energy Access, Off-grid, pay-as-you-go, solar home systems developer, has launched MySol Academy in Nigeria for capacity development. According to the announcement, the academy is a strategic learning initiative that improves its staff’s technical and behavioural capabilities by equipping them with vital skills to become future business leaders.

The firm’s Managing Director in Nigeria, Mr Bankole Cardoso, noted that 25 members had been trained in the first cohort. And the participants cut across its key departments and units in Nigeria. Mr Cardoso explained that experienced facilitators were drawn from within the company to teach the core areas of the business across sales, operations, marketing, business development, and finance, among others.

“At ENGIE Energy Access, the development and growth of our staff is a key priority, and MySol Academy is one of how we meet this objective. Attracting and retaining the best talents is pivotal to our continuous delivery of life-changing, affordable, reliable and sustainable energy solutions with exceptional customer experience, hence why we invest in training our employees as we value them as the best asset that any organization can have and be proud of, he stated.”

Apart from the participatory learning that the staff experienced, they also had projects where they had come up with solutions for existing business challenges within the ENGIE Energy Access Nigeria business.

Also speaking, the Head of Human Resources of the company, Oluwatoyin Williams-Edem, said, “I am excited at the success of this first edition of the MySol Academy and much more delighted because the students at the academy were able to come together to proffer solutions to strengthen some of our business processes and own the execution.”

Williams-Edem also added that the company will still have two more cohorts before the end of the year.

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