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 ›
employee performance optimisation
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 ›
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 ›
Sunglass leaders – the filter effect that casts everything in one colour
This week – our focus is on what we call, for purposes of this blog, the ‘sunglass’ leader. A leader whose manners demand of those they lead, to see the world through one lens and colour – their lens. It’s… Read More ›
Should accountability focus on the end-result or process?
The majority of the products and services we buy or are gifted, come from a system that, like the police force, monitor compliance to process by those that sale labour to employers. And just like we have different cultures in… Read More ›
Is chronic poor timekeeping amongst certain people an education matter? Series 1 of 2
For the next two blogs, the Effectiveness lab is discussing the concept of time, its management and education. Is time-management taught formally in schools? Should it be or not? Is the approach to teaching time-management, right? Not long ago, we… Read More ›
Your individuality and situational fit
This week’s blog concludes our Individuality monologues: the tendency to match human beings to global-average metrics (at times entirely meaningless for the individual) has been challenged. You just want to be you, after all, that is what makes you happy… Read More ›
You are more effective when you choose to be you – 2 of 2
Let’s start off this week’s blog, the second in the series ‘You are more effective when you choose to be you,’ by making it very clear that we aren’t calling for rebellion or dissent in companies, families and other social… Read More ›
You are more effective when you choose to be you – 1 of 2
There is this fascinating book – The end of average by Todd Ross that resonates with our tendency to question why what is right or best is usually associated with a specific pre-agreed standard/norm. The book encourages you to look… Read More ›
