16 ex-Bristow Helicopters workers undergo entrepreneurial training
Sixteen ex-workers of a leading helicopter service provider, Bristow Helicopters Nigeria have been urged to invest their benefits wisely by taking advantage of new opportunities in the businesses environment.
The ex-staff, at an entrepreneurial training organised by Bristow Helicopter were challenged to seek for opportunities in various sectors of the economy.
Speaking at the opening ceremony of the three days programme in Lagos, facilitator of the training and Chief Executive Officer of Safecrest Services Limited, Mr. Solomon Ohiomah said the programme is designed to assist the participants to amongst others, plan for a qualitative life after former employment and identify available business opportunities in the business environment.
CEO of Safecrest Services Limited, Mr. Solomon Ohiomah, 5th from left with ex-staff of Bristow Helicopters Nigeria at a post-employment workshop with the theme “ Life After Paid Employment” in Lagos.
Also, it is to give a guide to the fundamentals of generating business ideas, preparing business plans, setting up and managing a business as well as personal finance management.
Ohiomah explained that leaving formal employment is neither a calamity nor a death sentence, rather it time to retire and re-fire into other areas of human endeavours and a time to embark on new ways of life.
He said government and companies must prepare workers to look forward with confidence to retirement as a new and inevitable phase of life.
The workshop features paper presentations on framework for personal financing planning, economic and coping strategies in a recession, career and personal development.
Others are forms of business and how to register them, writing bankable business plans and sources of start-up capital as well will-preparations, prudent management and investment and pension and gratuity administration.
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