In line with its visions to advance the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), through lifelong learning and continuous personal development among the wider community, The Research and Innovation Directorate of Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti (ABUAD) is welcoming registration for its online community development seminars. )
The Research and Innovation Directorate of Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti (ABUAD) hosts a wide range of Community Development Seminars aimed at providing opportunities for local community to learn about the importance of energy efficiency and clean energy. The seminars focus on energy citizenship and sustainability business, with the aim of providing the local community with tools needed to start and commercialize their own energy efficiency ventures and innovations.
Free community development seminars are open to anyone2023 FREE ABUAD COMMUNITY SEMINAR SERIES
who is 15 years or older, and has a love for learning and personal development. These seminar sessions are offered in five sessions in total (two hours a class), over a two-week period, free of charge, and are offered in English. Participants who successfully partake in a minimum of four out of five classes receive a certificate of completion. These seminar courses are not credit-bearing and are ineligible for transfer towards any formal degree or program at ABUAD.
These seminars will also involve a section for advocacy, sensitization and awareness creation for students, staff members, and local communities in the sustainable development goals thematic areas. Since 2016, ABUAD has been organizing an annual Green Pledge Day (GPD), a program that enables students, faculty, and members of the local communities to take a solemn promise and an undertaking towards ensuring 100% renewable energy and its attendants energy efficiency efforts in their respective houses, organisations, and day-to-day operations. Therefore, the 2022 training edition will also impact positively on the staff, students and local communities more by continually promoting public promise towards ensuring one hundred percent (100%) renewable energy that will impact positively on the environment and bring about a better climate change.
With guided presentations and instructions by world-class experts and scholars drawn from across the world, participants will be exposed to latest developments and knowledge in a wide range of sustainable development themes.
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Seminar Fees: Free
To register for one or more of these community development seminars please visit this link http://research.abuad.edu.ng/online-community-development-seminars/
Synopsis of some seminar courses
- September 7-12, 2023: Business Development and Negotiation Skills 2. This course will help participants to uncover the negotiation skills required to grow their businesses, unlock professional career success and to defuse conflict situations. Attendees will learn how to develop business plan, business strategies, business advocacy skills, and also negotiation skills based on their unique personality traits, in order to play a more active role in their working environment. Essentially, the programme features five modules, which are:
Webinar 1: Business development plan
Webinar 2: Business development strategies
Webinar 3: Business advocacy skills
Webinar4: Conflict management
Webinar 5: Negotiation skills
- September 21-30, 2023: Project Management and Financing 3: World entrepreneurs in different sectors will need to be innovative in securing and managing available financing needed to drive their ideas and businesses. This course will provide an overview of project management and the essential tools needed to deliver successful projects in a timely manner and within budget. Participants will learn the fundamental principles of the subject matter, including project initiation, project definition, creation of work breakdown structures, scheduling using Gantt charts and network diagrams, risk management, budgeting and controlling resources, quality assurance, auditing, project termination. and the various software required for project management. Essentially, the programme features five modules, which are:
Webinar 1: Project management definition and initiation
Webinar 2: Defining the project plan with planning cost, time and policy
Webinar 3: Financial Modelling and Planning for startups
Webinar4: Project execution, monitoring and communication
Webinar 5: Project closure
- September 28, 2023 and October 07, 2023: Transformational Leadership and Management 3: This course is designed for those in management roles, in public and private spheres, who are responsible for assisting their organizations to achieve transformational and sustainable success. It explores the practical strategies and skillset need to become an effective transformational and organizational leader. The sessions will explore the practical and positive journey towards long-term progress, and provide clear guidance on how participants can lead and manage their organizations on upward trajectories. Essentially, the programme features five modules, which are:
Webinar1: The Transformational Leader: Introduction to transformational management and leadership styles
Webinar2: Organizational vision, mission, values and objectives
Webinar3: The management grid
Webinar4: Strategic planning and decision making
Webinar5: Business development strategies
