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.
The last three blogs in this ‘Employee Performance Optimisation’ series focused on individual and team performance optimisation, as well as the strategy for delivering the two optimisations. This blog, the fourth and last in the series, focuses on the organising structure for… Read More ›
Blog series one and two discussed ‘individual’ and ‘team’ performance optimisation respectively. This blog, the third in this particular series, delves into how employers can execute strategy for performance optimisation, for both individual staff and teams. Blog series one ended… Read More ›
Last week’s blog discussed individual employee performance optimisation. This week’s blog continues the discourse on employee performance optimisation, but from the lens of a team. One may assume that when companies fail at optimising individual employee performance, they, in turn, will… Read More ›
Don’t all modern firms grapple with individual employee productivity issues? The modern firm wants to squeeze every bit of productivity out of its individual employee. Armed with an array of digital tools for email and calendar management, giant-sized cloud-based shared… Read More ›
The Effectiveness Lab started the year 2016 discussing soft-marketing as well as asking why companies spend millions on hard and not soft–marketing. Companies should get the same outcomes or even more, if they invest company resources, both money and time, in developing… Read More ›
Based on the last three blogs in this ‘painting in the dark’ series, we have a dilemma. A dilemma afflicting multiple-tiers of East Africa’s social fabric; the school system, individuals and their values, and the family-unit. The three shape the… Read More ›
Continuing the ‘giving back to my society’ theme, Blog 3 of the ‘painting in the dark’ series talks to the trials and tribulations of the quasi-modern East African family. We write ‘quasi-modern’, as there is little doubt that the orthodox… Read More ›
For many years, I have dedicated December of every year to giving back to my society. Please note the word ’my’ society. As a Ugandan, I have to assume ‘my’ society is Uganda and, in particular, my village Nakabugu; yet… Read More ›
How do you ensure you are effective in the world that throws at you: ‘systemic and sustained uncertainty’, ‘sustained noise in the system’, ‘a future that is complex and hard to define’, ‘an education system that is teaching for a… Read More ›
Today, the 1st day of November 2015, and exactly the 46th year of my ‘long’ very ‘African’-life, my mind is pondering over a critical, at times invisible aspect in ones’ life – ‘the ability to act on what you get… Read More ›
