08Jun
08Jun
Will You Avoid or Confront?
Whether we are dealing with under-performing employees, disagreeing with our spouse, negotiating with a difficult client, or simply saying “no” or “I’m sorry”, we face difficult conversations almost every day.The only way to appropriately handle conflict is to actually deal with it. The dilemma for...
08Jun
Are you Ready for Change?
A change is as good as a rest’, so goes a common saying. Is this easier said than done? Does change bring rest or does it bring trouble with it? And if it does bring rest, why is change resisted with the same vigour its...
08Jun
Are you Building and Leading A High Performance Team?
Watching a sports team at play is all about collective endeavour. In my view, there is nothing as magical as a sports team working well together. You may have experienced it, either as a team member or as a fan. The desire of any leader...
08Jun
Are you Getting your Message Across?
The Online Business Dictionary defines communication as a two-way process of reaching mutual understanding, in which participants not only exchange (encode-decode) information, news, ideas and feelings but also create and share meaning. In general, communication is a means of connecting people or places. In business,...
08Jun
Failed Plan or Plan Failed
A proverb is a simple and concrete saying popularly known and revered, which expresses a truth, based on common sense or the practical experience of humanity. Whereas African Proverbs offer wisdom and poetry in just one sentence, the proverbs can convey wisdom, truth, a discovery...
08Jun
Power of vision
When reading a past issue of Leadership Journal, I came across an advert by the Billy Graham Training Centre at the Cove. The following words in the advert caught my attention “Leading is easier when you know which way to go.” The more I reflected on...
07Jun
How to Choose a Distributor
Achieving an effective distribution system with the widest coverage is the dream goal of any publisher. However, many publishers in developing countries do not achieve effective distribution chains even within their own countries. One reason for this is the inability of many a publisher to...
06Jun
PATIENCE IS A VIRTUE
“Once upon a time….” These were words I heard often while sitting around a fire in the evening. Growing up in the countryside, the evenings were spent around the fireplace as we waited for dinner to be prepared and served. The room would be dimly...
06Jun