Africa-Press – Botswana. The Department of Information Services personnel has been urged to embrace President Dr Mokgweetsi Masisi’s call for mindset change to become more efficient.
The department director Ms Maria Leshongwane made the call during the Kweneng regional staff meeting on Wednesday at the Eden Greens Farm near Kgope.
Ms Leshongwane said changing mindset and the way people had been doing things spoke also to how to better themselves to become more resourceful.
“When we align our department’s strategy, we address learning and growth of a person. We yearn for a complete person to have the desired results. From there, that person influences internal processes moving forward. We then look at how we could get better as a team, that is when mindset change must kick in,” she said.
She added that priorities mattered even in personal spaces.
She said small matters in life made an impact even at the work place or environment.
Ms Leshongwane said adopting the mindset change philosophy, the fifth pillar of President Masisi’s Reset Agenda, gave hope to new possibilities and motivation that everything was possible.
Botswana Press Agency Chief Information Officer Mr Thebeyame Ramoroka echoed the sentiments and said everyone had to set themselves targets in order to achieve the desired results.
“Attitude towards your work must change because what you do now will have a bearing in future,” he said. Mr Ramoroka encouraged staff to be energised against the heavy tide and challenges in life.
He urged them to unite and embrace each other’s characters and build a better tomorrow now.
Mercantile Financial Consultants and Insurance Brokers representative Ms Joyce Bogatsu urged DIS employees to be financially prudent.
She said it was a concern that civil servants were wallowing in poverty as a result of high indebtedness.
She advised employees to avoid going too deep into debt but explore many investment programmes rather than loans which were a burden.
Ms Bogatsu advised employees to change mindset on financial matters and live dignified lives free from debt.
“Those already in debt, sit down and appreciate your expenditure, talk to those you owe money and explore flexible repayment options; adjust, it takes determination and commitment to succeed,” she added. She encouraged employees to budget properly and adjust their lifestyles to avoid overspending as well as impulsive buying.
Ms Bogatsu said it was also important to seek financial counselling and advice.
Addressing mental health issues at the workplace, a psychiatrist nurse at the Deborah Retief Memorial Hospital, Mr Moses Mathubadifala, said mental health, which had now become a health crisis, should be a priority.
“We spend a considerable time at work, at least eight hours. Our mental health should be important for our wellbeing. Some issues, which might lead to mental breakdown, could be work related and it is therefore important to make checks and balances of our mental wellbeing,” he advised.
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