By Ayuure Kapini Atafori
A Professor of Leadership has admonished young women who intend to be prominent career women to create social capital to enable them achieve their life-goals.
Speaking at the launch of She Achiever Mentoring Program in Accra at the weekend, Prof. Goski Alabi said young females need to build social capital for their future career progression.
“Social capital works on the back of reciprocal interaction. We deliberately have to understand human capital and we need social capital for networking,” Prof. Alabi said.
The mentorship is being undertaken by She Achiever, a network of women leaders, CEOs, diplomats and leading social workers who have made significant achievements in their chosen fields of endeavors and whose contributions have been recognized and awarded the by The Business Executive Magazine Ltd. under its annual Feminine Ghana Achievement Awards scheme.
Initially, 25 youthful women, mostly students in selected tertiary institutions, will be assigned accomplished female mentors who will take them through various modules under the mentoring program. Some female students and young women workers attended the launch.
Prof. Alabi noted that the program is modeled on the Commonwealth Wise Women Project. “We intend to create a protected (safe) space for She Achievers to connect with Mentees to discuss and plan for their future path and to network.”
She said the mentees would be trained and empowered with professional and life skills which will benefit them immensely as they climb their career ladders to become celebrated women in society.
Baroness Paulette Kporo, the CEO of The Business Executive Magazine, said she conceived the program to “to create great women for the corporate world,” adding that it was not easy for young women to break the glass ceiling without the support, guidance and assistance of prominent women who had already experienced the vicissitudes of the world of work.
One of the mentees, Priscilla Khadi Vawurah, the Student Representative Council President of the University of Business and Integrated Development Studies (SDD UBIDS) in Wa, Upper West Region, observed that young women have a lot of potentials that needs to be tapped. Khadi Vawurah said she was happy to be offered the opportunity.
“I’m honored to be here. It is difficult to get mentors and we will take advantage of it, and we won’t take it for granted,” she stated.
