Bonaventure Oppong-Bonnah introduces himself and discusses influential people in his life. He describes how his father supported him throughout his education and encouraged him to pursue this course. His mother also provided guidance and prayers that helped him succeed. His pastor provided words of encouragement and advice that influenced his Christian life. Bonaventure has always seen himself as a natural born leader, taking on leadership roles from a young age in school. He is now pursuing this course to help establish his own healthcare center, as he has always wanted to work for himself rather than others. He has learned important leadership skills like supervision, goal setting, accountability, and delegation that he believes will help him succeed in opening his own healthcare center.

1. UNIVERSITY OF
WASHINGTON
DEPARTMENT OF GLOBAL HEALTH E-LEARNING

2. LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT IN HEALTH
LEADERSHIP JOURNEY PRESENTATION
GROUP ONE

3. ABOUT ME
Bonaventure Oppong-Bonnah is
my name and I come from
Adansi-Kwabenakwa in the
Ashanti region. However, in my
lower school days, I was living
with my mum and other siblings
at Kwadaso-Estate, Kumasi. We
are family of six; my mum and
dad and four siblings. I am the
second born and currently

4. One of the people who has
impacted my life is my dad. He is
of the name Kwabena Bonna Isaac
(PhD); a responsible father one
could ever get in his lifetime. He
has influenced my life in so many
ways ,not to talk of education, he
has supported me throughout my
education carrier. From the
kindergarten, lower primary,
upper primary, JHS, SHS and the
University. Even now with this
course, he is the reason behind it.
He told me the most important

5. Another person who has also
influenced my life is my mum.
She has been the backbone to
my success from the first day.
Her prayers, guidance,
support, directions and
punishments have made me
who I am today. She is a great
woman with good virtue. A
heart of gratitude to this

6. Lastly, I want to talk about
my pastor who has also
influenced my life in many
ways. He is called Prophet
James Reuben, the general
overseer of Changing
Generation Ministry. He has
helped my Christian life from
Junior High School where i
first met him till date. His
words of encouragement,
advise, prayers and

7. MY STORY
In my life I have always been a leader. I
started school at Holy Trinity Lutheran
School at Kumasi. At the lower primary
throughout upper primary to Junior High
school, I was class representative, bell boy,
section leader and compound overseer. I
had the ambition to lead and I was always
picked from the lot. I saw myself to be
naturally ordained to lead by God. I got
admission at the Senior High School at
Sekondi- Takoradi. The name of the school
is St. John’s. In my three years of study at
the campus, I was the dormitory overseer
for two years and at the third year I
automatically became the House Prefect of

8. During my senior high school days, I
told myself that I would not complete
my university education and work for
anyone and that thinking has been
with me till now. Though I went to the
university to practice Nursing but my
motive is to establish my own
Healthcare Center without working for
anyone. Currently, I have been able to
put up my own clothing line and also
deals in the importation of knapsack
sprayers. I am still trusting the process
to reach my target, that is putting up
my own Healthcare.

9. In this course Of study one thing that has resonated for me with my
thinking of being born a leader in class is supervising and delegating.
First and foremost, I have learnt that to be a leader there are three practices
of supervision that must be on your finger tips. They are listening; thus to
have a listening ear for your employees, know their minds and embrace
their ideas sometimes.
Setting goals, that is you should have a target to be reached by your
workers and it should be prioritised . And the last part is cultivating
accountability. That is sewing to it that work is done on time and should be
within the budget estimated for and also at the level of quality needed or
expected.
Secondly, I also learned about the six steps in delegating. As a leader,
before you delegate a work to an employee; you must prepare him.
Employee cannot deliver the quality of work result you require from him if
not taught. As a leader, you should take time and teach him exactly what
you expect from him.
Also, you have to give him an assignment for him to exhibit his skills, ideas
etc on what you have taught him. In giving assignment, you should include
clear information, time to be completed, the amount involved and the

10. After been able to narrate all to you, confirm his
committment by handing over the work to be done to the
employee without interference.
Last and not least, as a leader try to avoid reverse
delegation. That is taking the work back from the
employee due to one reason or another.
Lastly, ensure accountability as a leader. Let the employee
gives an account to the task he performed to know if he
was able to complete it within the stipulated time and
measure his performance.
In conclusion, as the above skills have been obtained
from the course, I am bold and confident that my vision
to establish my own healthcare center will be of success
without limitations should I apply every bit of what I
learnt.