Loyalty is a word we throw around, know what it means, but don’t always stop to reflect on its deeper meanings. We have recently had to reflect deeply in our family on what it means to be loyal. Loyalty means:… Read More ›
People
We fundamentally believe that the most important asset for any organisation (including family) is its people (staff). Organisations that get the best out of its people, shall get ahead of the others in the race for productivity and effectiveness.
What they say about you when you aren’t there…
Human beings worry about other people’s perceptions of us. And there is good reason to worry since we don’t live as islands. We socialise and work with others. Others have power and influence over our access to: resources, jobs, acceptance… Read More ›
Education in Uganda – the cost of authentic African folklore dying, thanks to Google
Practical education in most of Uganda was hybrid. It combined traditional African folklore and Western Colonial education at formal learning institutions. This type of education was effective since it produced outputs that positively influenced and shaped ‘total’ nation-states. First and… Read More ›
COVID19 casualty: the modern organisation and great resignation – Series 2 of 2
Who should have warned the world of the ‘great-resignation’? Did the HR fraternity miss the great resignation? Why did they assume that the COVID19 pandemic would come and go, and we would all return to the status-quo pre-pandemic? Is HR… Read More ›
COVID19 casualties: labour and the great-resignation – Series 1 of 2
Are we witnessing one of the more significant shifts at the modern workplace post-world-war 2? Amongst the many consequences of the COVID19 pandemic is employees quitting en masse. The pandemic situation has had an unintended consequence, and there is questioning by the… Read More ›
Oooooh Uganda May God uphold thee series 2 of 2
It has been about half a year since our last blog at the Effectiveness lab. We chose to take a hiatus – COVID19 took its toll on all parts of society; the people, souls, economy and the brains that blog. We… Read More ›
Ooooh, Uganda may God uphold thee… Series 1 of 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?
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
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
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 ›
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