Gtext Homes, a leading brokers’ company in Africa has unveiled its plans to empower about 100,000 potential brokers to create jobs in Africa’s most populous country.
Stephen Akintayo, managing director and chief executive, Gtext Homes said the aim of the Global Property Brokers Conference is to tackle issues of security by ensuring job creation, thereby hosting over 10,000 participants all over the world virtually and physically at Landmark event centre, Lagos Nigeria recently.
“If you want to end insecurity issue you must empower the youths. You don’t give them fish, you show them how to fish, show them how they can start a business without capital and gradually, and then what brokerage does if you can partner with a credible real estate company, anything you sell you get the commission and that’s what we are doing,” Akintayo said.
“We are committed to 100,000 and through the event, we empowered another 12,000 people, 10,000 online and 2,000 physically, so we are happy at the success, we are happy at the turnout and if not for the COVID-19 pandemic, probably we would have had more than 10,000 people here,” he said.
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Akintayo explained that the motive of the conference is to empower youths and also tackle issues limiting growth in the real estate sector as well as drive more investors into the industry.
“The opportunity is that we can expand the sector, we have the population, people equal money. Nigeria has no business with poverty, the labour is there, the market is there because we have the population and you can tap into Nigerians in the diaspora but somebody has to do the link, that’s where brokers come in.”
“The banks and the government has a lot to do, and they should do it, I don’t know why they are not doing it, I have been frustrated about how people keep talking about affordable housing and people keep talking and they think it is the job of the developer, it is not the job of the developer, it’s the job of the commercial banks, they have the business, I should just go to my bank and say I want to buy this house,”Akintayo said.
Top guest speakers at the conference include Dr. Stephen Akintayo, MD/CEO Gtext Homes; Dr. John C Maxwell, American author, leadership speaker; astute entrepreneur and CEO Common Sense Group; Dr. Olumide Emmanuel, CEO Mobisoft360 Inc/ attorney, business consultant; Dr. Ope Banwo, CEO, Cardon Capital; Grant Cardon, CEO, and founder of SERHANT; Ryant Serhant among others.
John Maxwell buttressed on leadership and the five essentials of leadership explaining that leadership is about motivating and adding value to people’s life.
“Business leadership is about how you lead people in every sphere and if you want to improve your business, it is through leadership. Your leadership is your rise and fall of your organization, so as soon as you develop on your leadership skills then your organization can develop because your business has to come under,” he said.
” Five essentials of leadership are; to live what you teach which is the matter of position authority which explains the position as a leader. Leadership authority explains what the leader says and the follow-me authority explains leading by action. Lift people by adding value, think always of adding value to people, looking forward to adding value to people, doing things that add value to people, and encourage others,” he added.
