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2nd National Conference for Cosmetologists, Beauty Therapists opens
The second national conference for Professional Cosmetologists and
Beauty Therapists has opened in Accra with a call on practitioners to
aspire to seek advance learning in the field.
The three-day conference, organised by the Professional
Cosmetologists and Beauty Therapists Association of Ghana (P-CABAG), is
on the theme “Accelerating the entrepreneurial and leadership potential
in cosmetology in cosmetology.”
Alhaji Saeed Bawah Moomen, President, Association of Small-Scale
Industries, (ASSI) said “the Cosmetology industry has come a long way
and has made a name for itself in the industry, but practitioners have a
responsibility to discover themselves, know what they are worth, and
make an effort to improve upon themselves.”
He said some beauticians still condemned advance learning as a waste
of time but as the industry advanced, stakeholders were expected to live
in line with the growing trends and technology.
He said the theme for the conference was appropriate since
practitioners had the potential to develop and must always challenge
themselves and push beyond self-imposed limits.
The President said “you have more potentials than you think, but you
will never know your full potential unless you keep challenging yourself
and pushing beyond your own self-imposed limits. The choices you make
now, the people you surround yourselves with, all have the potential to
affect your life forever.”
Alhaji Moomen urged practitioners to take their businesses serious,
nurture their nature, understand their values and strengths, and apply
them to their work.
Ms Rebecca Donkor, an Entrepreneur and TVET Ambassador, said there
was the need for practitioners to see themselves as entrepreneurs to
accelerate the potentials they had.
She said as professionals and entrepreneurs it was important to possess certain values to accelerate their potentials.
“As entrepreneurs, you must build your capacity, seek professional
advice, make your customers your priority, be innovative, set goals and
objectives for yourself, build stronger relationship with stakeholders
and recruit the best people to work for you.”
Ms Donkor encouraged them not to be ignorant about trends in the
industry, not to be bossy and too comfortable, see their employees as
assets and not liabilities and always learn how to promote their
businesses.
Mr King David Thompson, President, P-CABAG said the conference was
aimed at creating a platform for excellence in skills delivery and to
make the profession more attractive.
He said the theme for the conference was carefully chosen to
forcefully drum home the important position of cosmetologists and beauty
therapists in the national development agenda.
He said it was unfortunate that as a country, “we have still not
recognised the important role professionals play in the equation of
quality skill delivery and have also not been bold enough to walk the
talk on quality skill delivery.”
Mr Thompson said, “we have sadly reduced professionalism to political
football, failed to tackle head-on the issue of health and safety that
may affect the output of some professionals, and regulators have failed
to provide the needed checks on unqualified practitioners that will make
the work of professionals easy and successful.” Source: NewsGhana.Com
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