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 ›
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.
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 ›
Justification for ‘running out of clock’ – 2020, the horrible year
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?
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 ›
COVID 19 in the household – a very different kettle of fish
Well well well – we write about matters effectiveness on this blog, mostly from the OD. lens. Yet this time around, it’s COVID-19 that has effectively dealt with our household. If it were a football match – we are beaten…. Read More ›
Indiscipline a forte and is it okay?
Don’t we all occasionally have to make the choice whether to be the conformist type that goes with the order of the day (or what the boss wants) vs the errant, rebellious, nonconformist type that keeps going against the normal?… Read More ›
Do you pay ‘rent’ for your success?
They have done it, I will also do the same. Why not? …about 60% [youth in East Africa] admired those who used get-rich-quick schemes. And more than half believed it didn’t matter how one makes money while 53% said they… Read More ›
Don’t be ‘the first’ but ‘the best’
At the Effectiveness Lab, we present our thoughts via the effectiveness/efficiency lens. We are efficacy-junkies and ultimately would wish for all that we do as individuals to be rated top because it’s quintessential; and not because we carry individual perceptions… Read More ›
