Month: March 2020

LEAD Resources partners’ Mercer/Mettl to provide assessment solutions for hiring, training and development, and enable recruiting and L&D (Learning and Development) easy, time effective and cost efficient.

Mettl is an online platform that provide skills assessments for corporate clients and individuals for hiring and training and development. Mettl provides a pre-existing testing library and also customized test for specific needs of the employer. Mettl proctoring technology enables cheating preventions using facials and keystrokes recognition to verify the test taker and monitor candidates using the webcam.

LEAD Resources partnering with Mercer/Mettl is to connect the right talents to the right companies because conventional interviews are getting replaced with digital assessment tools. Mettl assessment provides skills assessment, proctoring and online assessments such as 360-degree assessment, psychometric tests, domain tests, coding tests, hackathons, cognitive tests, speech proficiency tests, L&D solutions and many other battery of tests to make human development, recruiting and profiling a meaningful and easy experience for companies to identify the right employee and individuals to become better version of themselves

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The conference started at exactly 2:30pm and the participants (Obot Essiet, Aminat Rabiu, Khadijat Oyedumade and Bunmi Ibironke) briefed the project members about the previous meeting outcomes and details of Abeokuta Business School (ABS)

The following are what were discussed at the brainstorming session.

PROPOSED PROGRAM OUTLINE

Date: Tuesday, 24^th March 2020

Venue: Abeokuta Business School

Time: 10am-1pm

The cost implications were shared between ABS and Lead resources i.e., all the necessary arrangement to be taken care of at the planned Free Seminars for the program and they are as follows:

Abeokuta Business School	Lead resources
Fliers	Facilitators
Venue	Marketing
Refreshment
Souvenirs

Also, it was discussed that there should be a deadline for the registration of the free seminar in order to plan ahead and as well as to know the total number of participants that will be coming for the seminar and the date selected was 17th of March.

Marketing and Data collection: it was discussed at the conference that the participant’s data will be collected from ABS Database, Government ministries and parastatals, Private organizations and banking Industries.

Also, the channels for marketing the seminar include: social media platforms, Emails, ABS Database, Fliers, WhatsApp broadcast and Bulk SMS.

Data Collection – this will be done through the use of Google Forms which the link will be sent to the participants through the various channels for proper planning and registration of the participants.

The Agenda for the event, logistics as well as the theme were discussed while the key note speakers were left for K.S to decide on.

At the end of the brainstorm, Aminat Rabiu delegated the task to Obot Essiet to Develop the concept notes and Bunmi Ibironke to make social media post on or before Friday.

The SMEsabi is an E- learning platform that enables Africa entrepreneurs build capacity for starting and/or scaling their businesses. The SMEsabi courses and modules were developed through the combined effort of a team of professional business trainers/coaches and ICT consultants with GIZ SEDIN support in collaboration with FUT Minna and Lead Resources.

Some of the courses available on the platform are: Business Model Canvas, Business Planning, market and Marketing, Access to Finance, and Record Keeping. After the completion of these courses, you will take a programme assessment which grants you access to a certificate as well as ability to make profitable entrepreneurship decisions.

Taking these courses will go a long way to improve the way SMEs handle businesses. The SMEsabi courses and modules were developed through the combined work of a team of professional business trainers/coaches and ICT consultants with GIZ-SEDIN support in collaboration with FUT Minna and Lead Resources.

The development of SMEsabi was coordinated by GOPA consultants, as part of a contract to develop interactive training materials for MSMEs and start-ups on behalf of GIZ-SEDIN.