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I have worked in International development, and with respected International development agencies, for over 20 years.

I continue to get fascinated by what brings and takes away EFFECTIVENESS in both People and Organisations.

I'm especially interested in helping organisations and people become effective at what they do.

• Ooooh, Uganda may God uphold thee… Series 1 of 2

  By AB Gabazira on June 13, 2021 • ( 2 )

  

  As the world, especially our G7 global door-keepers, start to see the light at the end of the tunnel and talk recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, I’m worried for mother Uganda. The main topic of conversation for the rest of… Read More ›

• Are you the type to always have an exit plan?

  By AB Gabazira on June 6, 2021 • ( 2 )

  

  Should you consider exit-plans beyond the confines of your brick and mortar office, house, short spans of time spent on aircrafts? Indeed, the above are good examples where exit planning and strategy are integrated into the body fabric of processes…. Read More ›

• HR practitioners: take an ‘outside-inside’ approach to skilling for work or become irrelevant – Series 2 of 2

  By AB Gabazira on May 30, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Do we see the skills supply vs demand gap? What can we do to fix it? We assume that you recognise the gap between the products on the labour market In Uganda (supply) vs skills (demand) sought after by employers…. Read More ›

• HR practitioners: take an ‘outside-inside’ approach to skilling for work or become irrelevant – Series 1 of 2

  By AB Gabazira on May 23, 2021 • ( 2 )

  

  It doesn’t take long for you to work out, at least in Uganda, that the supply side isn’t appropriately addressing the demand side of the labour market. White-collar and to a certain extent the techno-vocational workers aren’t meeting the skill… Read More ›

• COVID-19 and working from home – excitement and joy turning bitter? Series 2 of 2

  By AB Gabazira on May 16, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  As already put in series 1, working from home has a bittersweet dynamic especially for the white collar employee. At first, it was fun working from home. But once it became apparent that the COVID-19 pandemic wasn’t a short term… Read More ›

• COVID19 and working from home – excitement and joy turning bitter? Series 1 of 2

  By AB Gabazira on May 7, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Once upon a time, there was quiet excitement amongst a section of white-collar workers that the COVID19 pandemic, horrible as it may be, allows them to work from the comfort of their homes. What the white-collar worker wanted for a… Read More ›

• Cut-paste and parrot thinking catching up in the private sector – our insurance company

  By AB Gabazira on March 6, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Is the parrot-thinking culture, akin to how we are taught in this pearl of Africa, abound even in the normally more effective and efficient private sector? Looks like it’s, in this particular instance, for our insurance service provider In an… Read More ›

• COVID-19 system paralysis: opportunity to innovate and change our education system

  By AB Gabazira on February 21, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  First things first – apologies for the blogging-hiatus at the Effectiveness lab. We experienced internet access issues that were out of our control – but the good news is that all is now sorted, and we are good to go… Read More ›

• Justification for ‘running out of clock’ – 2020, the horrible year

  By AB Gabazira on January 10, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Hello, 2020, the annus horibillis is behind us. Is it? And, don’t we have every reason to justify why we didn’t do whatever we wanted done. It’s human nature. Yes, it’s the year 2021 now, and already many things have… Read More ›

• Can our Ugandan kindred wean off begging?

  By AB Gabazira on December 20, 2020 • ( 1 )

  

  Every time I travel upcountry to our parents country home, I purposely observe the many manifestations of enduring poverty and desperation. It’s too abundant – and one has to be careful not to start seeing it via the lens of… Read More ›