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OUR PEOPLE, CULTURE & DIVERSITY
The value our employees bring cannot be underestimated. Our successes and failures are ultimately determined by the diligence and dedication of our Management Team and the people who work with them. Our people are thus, a central pillar of our value creation and delivery strategy as a Bank. We believe that taking into consideration the wellbeing of our stakeholders in the development of our business strategy will enable us deliver our brand promise of ‘more than banking’ to them in a sustainable manner and also support the achievement of our strategic vision of becoming Africa’s Gateway to the World.
We are committed to transforming our people into world-class talents and providing them with an innovative and conducive working environment that allows them to reali e their career aspirations while delivering exceptional service to customers. In 2019, we implemented several employee engagement and capacity development programmes geared towards equipping our employees with cutting edge skills and talents required in a globally competitive environment.
Highlights
Recruitment
In 2019, our Entry Level Training Program (ELTP) developed and produced Thirty-Seven (37) graduates through our career fairs and aptitude
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test. These graduates were selected from the country’s premier universities as well as top Universities in the United Kingdom (UK) and were taken through Nineteen (19) weeks of intensive training at the Access Bank School of Banking Excellence in Lagos, Nigeria. Some of the courses covered in the training school included Financial Statement Analysis, International Trade Finance, Understanding Banking Operations, Economics, Credit Analysis, Accounting, Anti-Money Laundering and our Credit Policy Guide (CPG). Over the last decade Two Hundred and Ninety (290) trainees from Ghana have graduated from the program and each year our trainees excel and return with various impressive awards.
Training and Career Development
Improving the skills of our employees is a key in uence to our dynamic or anisational structure. Our objective is to develop leaders committed to our value of excellence, who impact and transform our environment through cutting edge personal development programs. Over the last decade we employed a blended learning approach to ensure that the ri ht s ills and content offerin s are mapped to match the skills gap at any given time.
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