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Most organisations spend too much time determining their activities rather than their focus and direction. Plenty of organisations fall into the trap of confusing strategic planning with strategic decision-making. Planning your future activities can be a good practice, but it isn’t the same thing as determining the direction or focus of your company. In fact, business expert...

The strongest leaders excel at winning people over to their perspective using a thoughtful and deliberate process. As a leader in your organisation, you have probably had to change a process, launch a new project, or shift resources around at some point. And, more likely than not, you encountered resistance from your team. Change and adaptability are necessary for companies ...

The new year is the perfect time for new ideas and new innovations. And while we would probably all say we support innovation in our organisations, few companies know how to do this well. Part of the challenge is that we tend to focus too much on highly disruptive innovations. We think innovation means we must create a new product category, revolutionize an industry, or tran...

A Practical Way To Assess & Grow This Key Skill. It’s consistently rated as one of the most important soft skills that employees need. But most managers think job candidates don’t have it. Universities don’t know how to teach it. On top of that, few can even agree on how to define it or measure it. What is it? Critical thinking. In Engage the Fox: A Business Fable About Thin...

They want to be seen as holistic individuals, not just worker bees. No matter how you feel about millennials, those born between the early 1980s and early 2000s, you can’t avoid them. In Kenya, millennials make up more than 20 percent of the total population, according to the Population Reference Bureau. They are one of the largest generations in the workforce, and more of t...

How to spot one of the essential traits more and more hiring managers consider essential. So, you’re looking to fill a key position in your organisation. You want a standout, someone who will take this role and your company to the next level. Perhaps you find some candidates with strong experience and an excellent skill set. In-person, they are knowledgeable and personable. ...

You can’t make more time, but you can make the most of it. At one point or another, we’ve probably all felt like we didn’t have enough time to do everything. Unfortunately, time is the one resource we can’t create more of. We can only learn how to use it better. Managing time well, it turns out, is one of the hallmarks of successful leaders. In a recent Harvard University st...

Here are the best strategies from business experts around the world. Even the best job can become difficult if you have a challenging boss. Working for someone who is a bully or a micro-manager, or someone who lacks professional competence or emotional intelligence, can be taxing and exhausting. Studies have consistently shown that employees with a difficult boss are more pr...

Attractive Benefits That Won’t Break The Bank Every hiring manager has probably encountered this situation before: You’ve found the perfect candidate to fill an important role in your organization. But you can’t afford the salary they want. What can you do to convince them to join? Fortunately, most professionals are not motivated by money alone. In a survey by Glassdoor, 60...

Your closest relationships, health, and job performance can all benefit from boundaries. There’s something that tends to happen as we advance in our careers: the time and space available for a personal life shrink. The stress of the job, on top of long hours, can easily take its toll on your health and closest relationships. Not surprisingly, CEOs and entrepreneurs have high...

How to turn meetings into a springboard for productivity. We all need meetings. But we probably all dread meetings too. Meetings can seem time-consuming and inefficient, interfering with our work rather than helping it. If you feel this way, you’re not alone. Research shows that a vast majority of employees daydream or do other work during meetings. Executives can spend up t...

Effective teamwork in the office doesn’t happen by chance. The fate of an organisation can rise and fall based on the ability of its people to work together. Even with a team of individual superstars, there’s no guarantee they will function as a cohesive unit. Business researchers have spent years trying to decipher the magic formula for building high-performing teams. They’...

Are you Happy with your job? That's a question that can be defined in many ways. Is it being liked by your fellow peers? Is it the feeling of being content when a project is done successfully? Is it being congratulated by your boss frequently on a job well done? These questions are some of which people fail to seek answers for. So let's begin with a definition of "happiness"...

Clear expectations and on-going communication are keys to evaluating new recruits. A recent study by Leadership IQ found that 46% of new hires don’t work out within the first 18 months on the job. Most of these employees leave because of cultural or interpersonal mismatches, rather than a lack of technical expertise. With these low rates of success, getting your new hires of...

Here are some of those special traits that make a team member stand out. You’ve likely encountered this in your career: a job candidate or employee who has a special something that makes them stand out. It’s not a technical skill or something on their CV, but an X factor that makes them an extraordinary team member. These are the kinds of professionals we all want in our org...