Our leaders need to have their priorities right-Dr Tetteh

Dr Lawrence Tetteh, Founder/President, Worldwide Miracle Outreach, says leaders need to have their priorities right to help them to come from the trenches to the place of development.

He said as a nation, “we need those priorities like never before and once we begin to prioritise, we know where we should invest for growth and development.” Dr Tetteh speaking at the West Africa Sub-Regional Leadership Workshop in Accra said he thought that prioritising should be the bedrock of developing a nation.

The event organised by Equip Ghana was on the theme: “First Things First.” Dr Tetteh, who is also a renowned International Evangelist said, “If we can properly prioritise and put the pieces together, and do first things first, then the rest will follow.” He said if the nation could prioritise, then that would help the nation to develop in a place where it knows that this is what we need.

“We must start from somewhere and the basics are very important, even the English language we speak, the accent we speak, we should learn to get the basics first,” he added. He said it would enable the individual to articulate themselves properly to make meaning to other people. The International Evangelist urged the leaders to go back to the foundation, saying they would need to have a step-by-step mood that will help them to get a stable foundation.  Most Reverend Professor Johnson Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu, the Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church Ghana said, “I get very worried when young people assess success and well-being beginning from wealth.”

He said when individuals start from material wealth, they lose a critical ingredient that priority breaks, adding that they lose their values, moral and ethical values. The Presiding Bishop said leadership was challenging for different reasons and they must exercise the pressure and complaints from external sources, which could lead even principled leaders to have misguided priorities. He said leadership must contribute to what theologians call human flourishing and to contribute to human flourishing, they must know what comes first and what comes next. Most Rev. Asamoah-Gyadu said integrity was a non-negotiable element of leadership and if people do not have integrity, they mix up their priorities.

Mr Eric S. Nyuma, Africa Regional Director EQUIP Leadership: Beyond Success Programme and JMTI, said the vision to establish, promote and train leaders to learn, live and lead with good values had come to stay. He said in 2024, they witnessed an increase in the number of individuals, organizations and institutions in the public and private sector within the African continent. He said EQUIP leadership through the Beyond Success initiative had been active in 25 Africa countries and they were certain to reach 30 countries by the close of the year.

The Director said the theme for the workshop established a sense of urgency and trust as it encouraged leaders to learn to focus on what matters the most. “Focusing on the essentials and needful helps leaders to achieve great results and it is my hope that this workshop will indeed stir a desire and a hunger in us to take responsibility first for our actions and then lead with values,” he added. Mr Ben Quarm Country Coordinator – EQUIP Leadership Beyond Success Ghana said the world today presents a great sense of mixed feelings, which paints a clear portrait of what the world looks like today. He said world leaders in all aspects of life bemoan the rate of deterioration, lack of accountability and general rot born out of leadership dysfunction.

He said as John C. Maxwell rightly quipped; transformation begins with me and the desire and expect positive change and progress in people’s lives, but that would not happen unless they become the change they want to see. The Country Coordinator said the theme “First things First’ was a great reminder for leaders to refocus their minds and re-adjust their schedules to reflect what was important on their table of activities. He said the Beyond Success programme was a transformational leadership movement that was bringing positive change and meaning to millions of people across the globe. The programme has truly made remarkable contributions to the lives and livelihood of many Ghanaians.

Source: GNA