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MABS Account Officer’s Refresher Course. MABS Technical Resource Specialists Training-Workshop. Why focus on account officers?. Account officers are a vital link between the bank and its target-clientele – the microentrepreneurs.
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MABS Account Officer’s Refresher Course MABS Technical Resource Specialists Training-Workshop
Why focus on account officers? • Account officers are a vital link between the bank and its target-clientele – the microentrepreneurs. • Account officers have the crucial task of generating, evaluating, recommending and monitoring loan accounts. • Account officers are therefore the bank’s profit-generating centers.
The AO Training Course Objectives: • Explain the role of rural banks as financial intermediaries and as microfinance providers • Identify and explain why MF best practices and principles are important to incorporate in microfinance product design and implementation • Understand that character and capacity to pay are the primary basis for evaluating microfinance loans
The AO Training Course Objectives: • Properly employ client selection tools which are the loan application forms, CIBI forms and cash flow analysis template and worksheets • Explain the concept of zero tolerance against delinquency and how account officers/loan officers can pursue it • Demonstrate skills in selling the benefits of their microfinance loan products while adeptly handling possible objections from clients
The AO Training Course Participants: 1. Intended for new account officers to equip them with basic knowledge and skills on how to implement and manage a microfinance loan product with individual liability. 2. Recommended also for regular loan officers who are given supervision responsibility over account officers and members of branch/bank credit committee responsible in evaluating and approving microfinance loans.
The AO Training Course Participants: 3. With some modifications, the training course can be given as a refresher course to old or existing account officers whose performance needs improvement.
When to Conduct the AO Training Course • The complete AO Training Course must given to all newly-hired account officers • The bank must give the training during the first month of the trainee-account officer’s stay with the bank • It is best that the training course be delivered on a per module within a 4-week period. In this way, the trainee-account officer will have the time to apply the concepts on field while being handheld by an experienced account officer/supervisor.
When to Conduct the AO Training Course • Specific modules of the AO training course can be delivered as a stand-alone course for old account officers who need re-training and re-tooling. In training old account officers, they shouldn’t be mixed with new account officers.
When to Conduct the AO Training Course • To determine which specific module to deliver as a stand-alone for old AOs, product manager/MFU supervisor must do a training need assessment using MABS Effective Supervision tools: portfolio analysis and compliance with policies review.