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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...

The process can be a valuable source of feedback for organisational effectiveness. When a valued employee leaves your company, there are many steps to take to ensure a smooth transition. But one step that shouldn’t be overlooked? Conducting an exit interview with the departing employee. Every organisation wants to retain skilled, high-performing staff. Exit interviews can pr...

The most productive teams can recognize each other’s emotional needs. Every growing business needs productive teams that work well together. And one of the core traits of a successful team? Emotional intelligence, say social science and business researchers. Emotional intelligence is the ability to manage and express one’s own emotions and to recognise and empathise with the...

No matter your industry, chances are that your business will need to adapt to survive. As the pace of business increases, the ability to adapt quickly to change is becoming increasingly important for companies. In one McKinsey & Company survey, two-thirds of respondents said that their sector was characterised by rapid change. To stay ahead of new innovations, customer deman...

Meet Roselyne Meriko When Kenyans Come Home sent Roselyne Meriko the job description for general manager of the medical business at Jubilee Insurance, she hesitated. “I don’t have a medical background or any insurance industry experience,” she said at the time. Roselyne previously worked in finance in the U.S., where she lived for 13 years before relocating back to Kenya to ...

Leadership experts share what stand-out African CEOs have in common Business is booming across Africa. According to the Brookings’ Africa Growth Initiative, in 2019 “about half of the world’s fastest-growing economies will be located on the continent, with 20 economies expanding at an average rate of 5% or higher over the next five years, faster than the 3.6% rate for the gl...

The increasingly popular tools come with real benefits and some pitfalls. When hiring executives and managers, every recruiter wants to find the right candidate: a highly qualified leader who is also a good cultural fit. The costs of hiring someone who isn’t right for the job are high, ranging from financial losses to a decline in team productivity. HR Magazine reports that ...

The growing sector has the promise to help transform economies in Africa. With the rise of internet access in Africa, the e-commerce industry has followed close behind. In 2017, the African e-commerce sector generated US$16.5 billion in revenue, a number that is expected to increase to US$29 billion by 2022, according to research firm Statista. Disrupt Africa recently report...